Unique computerized control system utilizing simplified commands provides 24-hour total building operation. (Author)

This paper describes a Computer Assisted Psychological Service System (CAPS) that is being implemented in Arizona. This system packages knowledge and skills in system components, providing to the schools higher levels and more diversity in training. It also provides communication channels for new developments in the field. Presented at the…

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…