Information is provided on total costs, cost elements, and other related background aspects of validation research. Cost elements covered were staff time (broken into researcher and clerical, subject matter expert, and research participant), overhead, travel, and miscellaneous costs. Information is reported for 21 studies or groups of studies. In…

The Teacher Corps has been directed to put a greater focus on demonstration, documentation, institutionalization, and dissemination of the results of Teacher Corps projects. This report deals with program policy alternatives for improving the dissemination of project-developed products, practices, and processes to educational agencies and…

This first of a two-part report describes a project designed to develop instruments and procedures for evaluating and assessing the status of vocational education facilities in Indiana. Chapter 1 of this report presents the goals of an Indiana project as follow: to develop, collect, and organize acceptable facility and fixed equipment criteria for…

Knowing that many vocational facilities differing in outward appearance have equally successful results, the Indiana State Advisory Council on Vocational Education conducted a study to assess the essential elements of a vocational facility and to determine if a cost formula could be developed that would be useful for vocational administrators and…