As part of a symposium that examined the utility of adapting the techniques of cost-effectiveness analysis for curriculum and program planning in higher education, this paper examines the methodology and procedures of the technique. A checklist outlines some of the problems and potential and some guidelines are suggested for cost-effectiveness…

This publication is the teacher's reference of a series of three energy education publications. This teacher's reference handbook provides background information and some materials to aid the teacher in using the activities in the other two publications. The many charts, graphs, and illustrations are designed to provide the teacher with graphic…

This report presents the California State Department of Education's response to requests from the Joint Legislative Budget Committee for the following information: (1) a data base comprised of different indices of educational need such as pupil achievement, pupil social and economic characteristics, and school district wealth characteristics; (2)…

Linear programing is an approach that Oklahoma is currently using to channel vocational and technical education programs into manpower areas that need training. (BP)

Criticizes a model of educational attainment which incorporates differences in the distribution and control of educational resources between local authority areas, asserting that the developers of the model -- D.S. Byrne et al. -- committed errors which were so serious as to render their conclusions incorrect: their causal model is stated to be…

Examines some of the organizational dysfunctions that can result from an overdependence on the "rational-economic" decision-making approach. (Author)

Developed by Radford University to overcome the inadequacies of an acquisition allocation system based on faculty demand, this updated allocation formula considers factors of undergraduate credit person hours, number of declared undergraduate majors, graduate credit person hours, number of graduate majors, average cost weighting, importance of…

In their study of the usage demands placed on journal collections in academic libraries, Allen Kent and coauthors have not adequately considered the long-term variability of those demands in their formulation of a cost-benefit model for the management of journal collections. Though resource-sharing and the matching of periodical acquisitions to…

In times of scarce resources, college faculty consider the decision making process to be too time consuming in light of the potential pay-off, and in times of scarce human resources, universities frequently face the problem of overworking a few bright individuals. Speech faculty members' survival depends to a large extent upon their extensive…

In response to a provision of the Education Amendments of 1978 concerning evaluation practices and procedures, this report examines four aspects of evaluation in education which focus on how funds allocated to evaluation can be spent more effectively and yield more useful results. On this basis, groups of recommendations are made to both Congress…

This paper provides a current status report of the operational capability and use of the Time-shared, Interactive, Computer Controlled, Information Television (TICCIT)+10 system at the Model Secondary School for the Deaf (MSSD), Gallaudet College, Washington, D.C. TICCIT+10 is a version of the TICCIT system, which was modified to meet the needs of…

Since August of 1976, the Faculty of Nursing at the University of Calgary has developed and implemented a four-phase computer assisted instruction (CAI) project. In Phase I, the pilot project to demonstrate effectiveness of CAI as an alternative teaching strategy in that setting has been completed and replication is on-going. In Phase II,…