An installation at the University of California at San Diego is one of three systems used to illustrate the flexibility of computerized control systems. (Author/MLF)

"The general goals of this essay are (1) to improve the rigor and forecasting power of curriculum design and (2) to aid in the development of a set of basic notions or commonplaces for a technologically based conceptual structure for the field of curriculum design." (Author)

The systems approach to training has generally been applied to short-cycle, operative craft skills tasks. The system is more difficult to apply to complex, non-reptitive supervisory and managerial skills without considerable cost. This article reports the first part of a study to try to overcome this problem. (SE)

Satiric essay which alleges that computer assisted instruction is often a process so wrapped up in itself that it loses sight of the needs of the student. (LS)

The League for Innovation in the Community College surveyed representative new developments in league colleges and disseminated the findings. (MS)

A systems approach to instruction has been used at Kankakee Community College (Illinois). Behavioral objectives are emphasized, and a learning laboratory furnishes audiotutorial experiences. (MS)

Presents an approach to the development and use of a planning, evaluation, and improvement model for schools and districts, which involves three phases: establishing goals and priorities; the School-Improvement Evaluation Process of the North Central Association; and follow-up response. (AYC)

The authors explain how interaction analysis can extend existing methods of analyzing negotiations by examining economic bargaining theories. They code the transcript of a negotiation using two coding schemes and apply Markov chain analysis to the results. (Author/SK)

Describes a systems framework for conceptualizing and delivering paradoxical interventions (where the counselor tells the family what to do with the expectation of noncompliance) during family therapy. Notes appropriate times for use of paradox, and potential problems with this intervention. (WAS)

This concise survey of the vast literature currently available in field-of-systems thinking and cybernetics discusses the areas of systems philosophy, systems analysis (mathematical systems theory), empirical systems research, and systems engineering, and outlines contributions of selected scholars. A bibliography of 148 books and papers is…

Attention is directed to identification of the various individuals and groups ("constituencies") with an interest in system performance, and to the investigation of those items of system relevant information (their "performance measure sets") which do, in fact, change their evaluations of how well the system is performing. (Author/RL)

Discusses research in counseling and psychotherapy, analyzes and critiques the most popularly used meta-models, i.e. those that guide and delimit applied theory, and research. Develops and advocates the use of a systems paradigm for future research. (RC)

Applications of the systems approach in the form of systems technologies are seen as having a mixed record in the management of universities. Some of the major issues challenging the general systems approach are reviewed. An incentive systems model is presented. (Author/MLW)

Suggests the adaptation of general systems methodology to the design of information technology transfer mechanisms as a way of aiding the scientific and technical achievements of developing nations. Twenty-seven references are cited. (FM)