Educational environment in California has evolved from the one-room schoolhouse to the two-story center corridor building with self-contained classrooms, to the "finger-plan" arrangement and more recently to the large enclosed shell of flexible teaching space. Existing facilities must be remodeled to carry on the educational process for earthquake…

Upon establishment of the St. Louis Junior College District, it was decided to make use of computer si"ulation facilities of a nearby aero-space contractor to develop a master schedule for facility planning purposes. Projected enrollments and course offerings were programmed with idealized student-teacher ratios to project facility needs. In…

The use of general purpose classrooms, lecture halls, laboratories and studies at Grand Valley State Colleges is reported. Tables present the percent of room use, percent of station use and fill-factor by day of the week and by hour of the day. Room use is compared to standards and with prior years' usage. (SPG)

The Ohio Board of Regents, in its planning and coordinating role, must be able to determine the statewide facilities requirements necessary to support the educational programs while avoiding unnecessary duplication of effort. This document provided an informational basis for making decisions and establishing policies at all levels, and opens a…

This study investigated the relationship between cognitive style and the use of play areas in the nursery school. The participants were 28 preschool children (13 girls and 15 boys) attending the Laboratory Nursery School at the University of California at Davis. Each child was observed for 12 one-hour sessions over a 10-week period. A time…

This performance audit was conducted to provide the Legislature with an evaluation of the Capital Analysis Model (CAM) utilized in the development of the Washington State Community College System capital budget request to the Legislature. The CAM is a tool for measuring projected capital facilities needs in relation to current capital facilities,…

A report on adventure or "junk" playgrounds--areas that provide opportunities for children to build, dig, and play with materials under their own direction--begins with brief sections on the establishment of the original playground in Copenhagen, and the first American experiment, in Minneapolis, in 1950. The main body of the report is…

The first section of this report defines and discusses the concept of productivity in education, reviews methods used to identify community college outputs and conversion factors, and reviews possible approaches to productivity management. The second section describes the step-by-step procedure used by the Dallas County Community College District…

Rarely have school districts had the opportunity for an indepth examination of themselves such as the times now offer. In order to do this professionally, a master plan should be created. The plan should consist of a comprehensive statement of the district's long-range goals and the procedures for their implementation. Once developed, this master…

Because of rising costs and rapid educational change, the architectural design of a school becomes important to the accomplishment of an educational program. The contemporary architect must design a building with one eye on its construction and maintenance costs and the other on new materials and products and on expanding educational programs.…

The adverse conditions which make the teacher's role difficult and the steps taken in solving these situations are discussed. The means by which some teachers have surmounted their crowding and space problems may be helpful to others faced with similar difficulties. Ways to reduce crowding so that children can have the best possible environment…

Resource and demand characteristics of the public and private institutions of higher education in Indiana are reviewed. A summary and utilization study of the physical facilities available are presented, as is a profile of the instructional activity for these colleges and universities during the fall term, 1967. Space inventory summaries are…

Included in this comprehensive study of physical facilities is an inventory and utilization study and the projected physical facility needs for the years 1975 and 1980 for twenty-two of the twenty-four colleges and universities in Arkansas. In order to insure uniformity in the data collected, a physical facilities procedure manual was utilized…

A study of the social environment in special schools for the deaf is reported in this publication. The problem was to deinstitutionalize the dormitory environment, and to stimulate an involvement in the surroundings and a sense of personal pride in the children. Research was carried out at the Ontario School for the Deaf, Belleville, with a group…

This report presents the findings from a comprehensive inventory and general evaluation of physical facilities at Virginia institutions of higher education, both state-controlled and privately controlled. The report provides information concerning existing facilities as of Fall 1967, needs for building replacements and renovations, and anticipated…