Reviews the scientist practitioner model in counseling and examines problems associated with it. Discusses insights of general systems theory and Rychlak's insights into deficiencies in the current model of psychological research, and presents a revised model. (JAC)

Discusses insights gained through the production of a videotape entitled "School Improvement Through Staff Development" by the Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development. Addresses both the tape's subject matter and methods of communicating that matter. Second article in series; for part I, see EA 518 619 (Educational…

Explains why systems theory and its applications, which examine outcomes in terms of resources applied, are emerging as an alternative explanation method in business, government, and education. Explains the planning, programming, budgeting system (PPBS) and describes teacher responses to similar rationalized systems operations. (SB)

Article criticizes the ill-conceived nostrums of the educational engineer and focuses on "opening-up" the learner rather than having him "shape-up" to presumed contingencies that are to come. (Author/RK)

Interest in building systems is growing rapidly as school officials become increasingly aware of their advantages: lower cost, faster occupancy, and improved appearances. (Author/MLF)

Article describes a generalized data service system that incorporates many scanning applications. (Author)

Illustrates how systems planning can be used in the recycling of old school space and in erecting multistory additions. (Author/DN)

Evaluates IPI, an instructional system designed to individualize the teaching of subject content. (Author)

Compares the similarities of and the differences among the three instructional systems -- PLAN, IGE, and PIP -- discussed in EA 504 612-614. (MF)

Authors repudiate excessive use of systems engineering models in education. Such models depreciate any learner-teacher-materials-interaction which cannot be assumed to proceed in a pre-determined manner. Efficiency measurement based on maximizing outputs and minimizing inputs produce a kind of prosaic mentality and obtuseness. (Author/PS)

This article describes a summer orientation program used by a liberal arts college in New York. This orientation program utilized the systems approach as most appropriate for the development of a personalized humanistic orientation for newly admitted students. (Author)

Validation here refers to individual evaluation, formative evaluation, and summative evaluation. Twelve steps are listed in a systems approach. (AG)

A systems approach to counselor education is a good step forward if we are willing to face the content question and redefine the objectives of counselor education itself, a redefinition which includes new roles and new functions. Without such a major change, the systems approach may become a mehtod that supports the illusion of change. (Author)