Because of increased competition for funds, educational leaders are now recommending use of systematic planning techniques such as Planning-Programming-Budgeting (PPB). Effective implementation of such a procedure calls for a data base of enrollment of students in a program, retention rates, and costs per instructional hour. The intent of this…

This book, one of a series prepared in connection with the Behavioral and Social Sciences Survey (BASS) conducted between 1967 and 1969, deals with problems of statistics, mathematics, and computation as they related to the social sciences. Chapter 1 shows how these subjects help in their own ways for studying learning behavior with irregular…