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Marinelli, Joseph J. – 1976
The purposes of this study were (1) to ascertain the state of the art with regard to cost effectiveness and productivity analyses in education and (2) to develop an appropriate cost effectiveness analytical process model for education. Chapters I through III present a review of the literature on cost effectiveness analysis, cost benefit analysis,…
Descriptors: Cost Effectiveness, Individualized Instruction, Models, Nontraditional Education
Download full textDuckworth, Leonard F. – 1975
The purpose of this practicum was to improve the reading program at a San Antonio elementary school in grades one through three and to provide a model for expansion to grades four and five and to other elementary schools in the area. The Texas Right to Read format was used as a guide to implementing the program. This document introduces the…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Models, Practicums, Program Budgeting
Wiseman, Merlyn Dale – 1975
A questionnaire designed to discover the effectiveness of a reading program model for secondary schools in the Los Angeles Unified School system was submitted to the junior and senior high school principals and 24 coordinators. Answers indicated that most schools considered most of the steps in the model, but that they varied the emphasis on…
Descriptors: Doctoral Dissertations, Models, Program Administration, Program Development
Tanner, Wendell R. – 1977
This project was designed to develop and implement a model for providing a physical education program for the students at Bacon County (Georgia) Junior High School utilizing the resources available. The concept was based on the results of effective programs employing peer tutors as instructors. A corollary goal was to provide positive experiences…
Descriptors: Junior High Schools, Models, Physical Education, Program Descriptions
Broughton, Charles H.; And Others – 1975
The design and evaluation of a secondary special education program is described. The program is noted to incorporate four phases: Phase-I evaluating the learning laboratory (LL) concept; Phase II-field testing the exportability of the LL concept; Phase III-providing a document explaining how to organize, staff, and operate a LL; and Phase…
Descriptors: Exceptional Child Education, Guidelines, Handicapped Children, Learning Laboratories
Kroll, Ronald C. – 1990
The purpose of this project was to identify academic advising strategies that would be appropriate for the small, private college setting; to develop an academic advising system; and to implement the system through a trial model at Practical Bible Training School in Binghamton, New York. The model consisted of preservice and inservice training for…
Descriptors: Academic Advising, Counseling Techniques, Faculty Advisers, Faculty Development
Keys, Delpha Bostock – 1975
A kindergarten pre-reading program was designed based upon Piagetian and Montessorian theory. During the pilot study, pre-reading experiences, materials and games were created to encourage individual diagnosis and specific pre-reading skills assessment. The following year the investigator conducted a descriptive study of the program's…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Doctoral Dissertations, Inservice Teacher Education, Kindergarten Children
Forcellina, James J. – 1975
The purpose of this practicum was to develop a model in-service program for training mainstream teachers of Spanish speaking pupils. As the Spanish speaking population of the Norwalk, Connecticut community has grown over the past decade, the school problem of dealing with the non-native English speaker was identified. Through the initial financial…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Cultural Education, Federal Aid, Inservice Education
Shoemaker, William A. – 1973
A systems approach to college administration and planning is probably the most valuable tool available for coping with the complex problems facing institutions of higher education today. A system is defined as a set of interrelated elements, units, or subsystems that work together toward a common goal. If a college functions as a system, the…
Descriptors: Budgeting, Colleges, Cost Effectiveness, Critical Path Method
Ray, Barbara H. – 1977
The in-service training needs of first-level employees of the state health and rehabilitative clerical staff and the development and evaluation of an in-service training model workshop were investigated. Interviews were conducted with the first- and second-level supervisors to determine the needs of the clerical staff for in-service training, to…
Descriptors: Clerical Workers, Individual Characteristics, Inservice Education, Job Satisfaction
Shiraishi, Reyko Ruth – 1975
This study examined the effects of a career project on the level of occupational aspirations of bilingual/bicultural Puerto Rican adolescents. The experimental treatment utilized role modeling techniques, field trips and group discussions. The career guidance project consisted of six lessons and involved career role models and counselors who were…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Attitude Change, Biculturalism, Bilingual Education
Marshall, Bernice Solomon – 1977
The author presents a model for inservice teacher training entitled the Process Oriented In-Service Experience (POISE) and attempts to identify changes occurring in the process movement and dynamics of interaction as reflected in attitudes and behaviors of teachers participating in this modified, small-group, process learning experience under…
Descriptors: Attitude Change, Behavior Change, Group Dynamics, Hypothesis Testing
Weiner, Debra S. – 1978
This study examines the circumstances under which a large urban school system opens the budget development process to the input of citizens groups and the difficulties involved in this effort. The scope of the study is limited to the analysis of the 1977 Budget Task Force (BTF) of the Philadelphia School District and observations of the…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Advisory Committees, Boards of Education, Budgeting
Gill, Patricia Louise – 1975
1973 Florida legislation requires each community college to evaluate the performance of former students in the activities for which they were prepared by the college. This project developed and implemented a follow-up system for community college graduates in Associate in Arts programs. The system assessed former students' achievement of the goals…
Descriptors: Associate Degrees, College Graduates, Community Colleges, Data Collection
Turpin, James D. – 1976
A model to encourage and facilitate change in school media programs was developed and field tested. The model was intended to provide assessment measures of media centers, planning strategies, and methods for implementing change. The model considered personnel, physical plant, collections, and operations. In 1975, the model was field tested in…
Descriptors: Audiovisual Centers, Change Strategies, Data Collection, Doctoral Dissertations
