This article examines the need for systems analysis within the educational system, the need for better management at the school level, and the need to use educational data for other than educational purposes. (AK)

This paper comprises a summary of some of the basic concepts and works of those concerned with the topic of programmed instruction." Appended are approximately 50 references. (Editor/AK)

The author describes a course aimed at enabling students to write operational definitions of concepts used in the psychology of learning, and to relate them in a formal system." (Editor/AK)

This article describes a large-scale teacher education programme" which employs a self-contained package of materials designed to train teachers to use specific teaching skills." (Author/AK)

In this paper we describe and illustrate a number of techniques for using both expert and naive human beings for various functions within a totally programmed (validated) instructional system and to achieve reliable and replicable results." (Authors)

Whenever a fixed series of steps must be learned, the question arises as to the order in which they should be brought to mastery and any prompts used in the lesson withdrawn." The author examines the proposition that prompts should start to fade at or near the middle of a learning sequence. (Editor/AK)

Author cites five areas of educational technology where progress has been and is being made. These are: clarifying the process, increasing labor specialization, improving educational evaluation, clarifying systems intentions and shifting the factors of production. Article concludes with a comparison of the educational technology approach with the…