CAI can pay by choosing a market where a decrease in training time or an increase in student-teacher ratios can be translated into lower over-all costs to the system. This situation obtains when CAI is used for the education and training of professionals, children with learning disabilities and others whose instructional needs cannot be met by the…

A description of how peer tutoring can work with a systems approach. (HB)

Article describes a lab to investigate instructional decisions and to help instructors acquire new strategies. It consists of a computer simulation of a set of students which permits the user, cast in the role of teacher, to make pre-instructional decisions. (Author)

Author concludes that the most troublesome characteristic that will affect long range planning is opposition to change. Each time the planners begin another cycle, the people involved will have changed, the environmental conditions will be altered, the model will be improved and the goals will set forth innovations. (Author)

Article focuses upon the basic frame of reference and methodology of behavioral psychology, its relationship to architecture and the promise that synthesis of the two disciplines holds for education. (Author)

Article deals with a method developed for generating or computing cost-benefits and cost-effectiveness data. (Author)

A look at accountability as an organizational commitment, manifest in policies and procedures that lead to four types of actions. The four R's of accountability are interdependent stages of designating responsibility, conducting internal program reviews, ensuring external reviews and instituting program refinements. (Author)

Based on preliminary evaluation data of a pilot program, a description of a modified content-process model for R & D training, and the proposed methods of evaluation is presented. (Author)

The findings from the application of audio-tutorial programing in three curriculum areas with three groups of exceptional children are reported. The findings suggest that audio-tutorial programing has qualities capable of meeting some of the instructional needs of exceptional children. (Author)

Article proposes a multi-phased research and development project designed to produce a computer managed spelling program based upon the theoretical model of spelling behavior postulated by Personke and Yee. (Author)

A brief look at Planning-Programing-Budgeting Systems, which are sound principles of decision-making and problem-solving, with illustrations of their application to persons serving in various roles throughout the school system. (Author/HB)

More than 100 videotapes form part of a new remedial algebra program developed by Kingsborough Community College at Manhattan Beach, Brooklyn. Project aim was to improve remedial education in a difficult subject during a budget crisis. (Author)

To illustrate the relationship of media to instructional processes, three distinct levels of instruction are examined briefly 1) teaching as voco/visual behavior; 2) media as "aids"; and 3) media for instruction. (Author)