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California Univ., Berkeley. Dept. of Physical Planning and Construction. – 1969
Basic information and guidelines on the use of URBS components are provided for use by architects and engineers. The URBS system was developed in response to the competitive bidding on performance specifications, incorporating user requirements, economic constraints, industry capability and trade practices. The essence of the URBS Project--the…
Descriptors: Building Design, Building Systems, College Housing, Construction Industry
Pennsylvania Univ., Philadelphia. Government Studies Center. – 1969
This document details a PPB system developed in an ESEA Title III project, Intermediate Unit Planning Study, for use in Pennsylvania (see EA 002 750). This manual version can be manually calculated with a desk calculator. Reported in this document, for use by school districts, are background information, major elements of this PPB system, and the…
Descriptors: Board of Education Role, Budgeting, Cost Effectiveness, Data Processing
Miller, F. T.; And Others – 1969
A pattern for developing and maintaining continuing mental health consultation with public agencies is presented. Usual models of consultation are predicted on an invitation to consult; they are time limited and problem specific. Described here is an entry pattern for consultation that is not predicted on an invitation to consult, is continuous in…
Descriptors: Change Agents, Community Health Services, Community Organizations, Consultation Programs
Forbes, Raymond L., Jr.; Nickols, Frederick W. – 1974
The basic similarities between educational technology and organizational development provide a powerful rationale for collaboration. The two disciplines are essentially in the same business, that of systematically changing human behavior. System theory and the system model appear to supply the language and the technology through which such efforts…
Descriptors: Behavioral Objectives, Behavioral Sciences, Criterion Referenced Tests, Educational Technology
Wolf, C. P.; And Others – 1973
Organizing for the future is the goal of the Year 2000 projects described in this prospectus prepared for the Rhose Island Bicentennial Commission. The prospectus includes a reationale for futures planning and an overview of efforts already underway at all political levels. Descriptions of state level efforts include California's Tomorrow Plan,…
Descriptors: Futures (of Society), Global Approach, Planning, Program Descriptions
Mitchell, James E.; Ellis, W. E. – 1974
The role of the State educational agency has shifted from inspections giving and statistics gathering to a new one which finds the agency at the hub of local, State, and Federal information transmittal. This emerging role holds great promise for effective Statewide improvement in education, because relatively new leader-manager expectations of the…
Descriptors: Administration, Cost Effectiveness, Data Collection, Information Dissemination
Chuang, Ying C. – 1970
In this paper, the author develops a funding decision model that is appropriate to the evaluation of specific educational projects in an urban school system. He has attempted to develop a model that the central administration of a school district could use to compare projects and estimate which projects would be more likely to provide the most…
Descriptors: Cost Effectiveness, Decision Making, Educational Programs, Educational Research
Galamaga, Donald P.; Bartolomeo, Paul A. – 1974
The document describes the implementation (Phase Two) of the Vocational Educational module--one component of an educational management information system. Phase Two entails the technical effort of final system design, final output specifications, edit specifications, system software selection, computer programing, systems documentation and the…
Descriptors: Computer Oriented Programs, Computer Programs, Databases, Guides
Midwest Research Inst., Kansas City, MO. Economics and Management Science Div. – 1972
PLANTRAN II is a system of computer software designed to assist educational administrators in their planning and analysis activities. The unique feature of PLANTRAN II is that it requires no computer programing experience or expertise. Users with technical background have found PLANTRAN II helpful in their analyses without reducing the complexity…
Descriptors: Administrator Guides, Computer Oriented Programs, Computers, Data Processing
Hawthorne, Phyllis – 1973
This revision of earlier reports reproduces copies of, or excerpts from, legislation that has been enacted through August 1973 in 27 States. The facets of accountability that the laws cover are State testing or assessment programs; evaluation of professional employees; performance contracting; planning, programming, and budgeting systems;…
Descriptors: Accountability, Budgeting, Elementary Education, Management Information Systems
Hsia, H. J. – 1973
Because of the importance and the internationality of mass communications, it has become necessary to study this phenomenon on a global scale. An organization for Supranational Communication Research, located on each of the continents, could act as a clearinghouse and patron for world-wide communication study. That is, in order to guide the…
Descriptors: Clearinghouses, Communication Skills, Communication (Thought Transfer), Information Dissemination
Whitmore, Paul G. – 1973
The objective of Work Unit SKYGUARD has been to facilitate the development of an improved Air Defense Officers Advanced Course (C-22) by the U.S. Army Air Defense School. Focus is on techniques for improving the completeness and relevance of the instructional objectives with respect to future job requirements. The job description procedures…
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Course Evaluation, Decision Making Skills, Group Dynamics
Sedlik, Jay M. – 1971
This document presents a systematic approach to diagnostic pretesting that can be used for any media of instructional technology, but that is especially useful in film and television production. This approach represents a rational basis for decisionmaking since feedback control is applied during the developmental and production stages. The…
Descriptors: Accountability, Audiovisual Aids, Educational Technology, Educational Television
YMCA of Metropolitan Chicago, IL. Career Options Research and Development (CORD). – 1971
This document demonstrates the impact of systems analysis on functional job analysis for occupations in human services. The first section discusses the goals and components, and data analysis techniques of the systems approach. In the next section, systems analysis is applied to the tasks performed in a variety of human services occupations. These…
Descriptors: Career Ladders, Career Planning, Codification, Core Curriculum
Bjerstedt, Ake – 1971
In this final volume of a three-volume series on the construction of self-instructional systems, the focus is on various aspects of post-construction control and improvement. As the first step in this phase, the process of polishing the material by checking for readability, integration, retention, and motivation is described and some of the aids…
Descriptors: Educational Technology, Evaluation Criteria, Evaluation Methods, Glossaries
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