Presented at a symposium instigated to improve the accessibility and usefulness of educational technology, the five invited papers presented in this proceedings deal with various aspects of information systems and their relationship to each other. Topics covered were "Educational Technologists as Consumers of Educational Information", "Information…

This School Subject-Occupation Index is part of a set of reference materials found in the Career Information System (CIS) component of the Career Decision-Making (CDM) program developed by Appalachia Educational Laboratory. (See CE 019 229 for an overview of the total CDM program.) This index was designed to relate Worker Trait Groups (WTG)and…

Georgia's equalization aid program, intended to meet the varying needs of pupils around the state, does not take into account variations in resource costs between districts. This study, introduced by a review of previous research on the topic, was designed to analyze the impact of these variations in resource costs on equality of educational…

The desire to create an effective cost of education index (CEI) arises from a desire to achieve greater equity in state and federal school funding mechanisms. Before such a measure is useful, however, much more thought must be given to the specification of factors differentially affecting demand and supply. Consensus regarding classification of…

Designed to serve as the basis for systematic collection of statistical information for government and the private sector, this bulletin presents a wide variety of economic indicators in tabular form. The data, selected to facilitate government and private planning efforts, are displayed in 25 tables and 27 graphs. Information is organized under…

Two Mississippi Gulf Coast Junior College institutional research reports are presented, delineating "Operation of the Plant" expenses for 1970-78 and analyzing past and projected maintenance and capital expenditure repair costs. Data in the first report reveal that the percentage of the Unrestricted Educational and General Budget consumed by…

Presented is a list of textbooks officially adopted for use in Oregon public schools for the period 1971-1977 in business education, driver education, foreign languages, health, mathematics, and science. Section I provides suggestions to school administrators on textbook selection. Topics discussed include selecting a variety of partial sets of…

This selected, annotated list of business information and reference sources in the University of Cincinnati Libraries includes literature guides, bibliographies, indexing and abstracting services, dictionaries, encyclopedias, handbooks, biographical sources, directories, legislative and administrative regulation sources, financial sources, fact…

THIS IS AN INDEXED, ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY OF CATALOGS, LISTS, AND PERIODICALS, PROVIDING INFORMATION ABOUT SPECIAL EDUCATIONAL MATERIALS. THESE INCLUDE 16MM MOVIES, 35MM FILMSTRIPS, SLIDES, KINESCOPES AND VIDEO TAPES, PHONODISCS AND PHONOTAPES, TRANSPARENCIES, AND PROGRAMED INSTRUCTION MATERIALS. NOT INCLUDED ARE MATERIALS NOT REQUIRING SPECIAL…

The committee examined the special allowance made to lenders in the Guaranteed Student Loan Program to assure that it continues to be an effective incentive. The allowance was examined in its relation to: (1) administrative costs incurred by lenders, including those attributable to federal regulations; and (2) appropriate money-market indices. A…

Primarily an evaluative, annotated bibliography of reference books and periodicals on American and English literature, this research guide also lists useful sources for research in other national literatures, and more than 300 reference books in literature-related subject areas. The introduction includes a key to abbreviations and instructions for…

Three models are examined in terms of their historical growth, structural similarities and differences, and their implementation and use. They are CAMPUS (Comprehensive Analytical Methods of Planning in University Systems), RRPM (Resource Requirements Prediction Model), and HIS (Hochschule Information System). Their basic logics are explained with…

Four case histories were studied in an on-going project to develop a method for user selection of purchased scientific and technical information services. The issues involved were: (1) the value of computer search services to a small branch of a company technical library; (2) the special decision-making factors used for selecting items of very…

This index covers the "Northeast Conference [on the Teaching of Foreign Languages] Reports of the Working Committees" from 1954 to 1975. Author and subject entries are combined in one listing, and although authors, editors, members of the working committees, and others mentioned in the Reports are included, the emphasis throughout is on…

All of the contributions in this volume, except the last, were presented at a conference sponsored by the Associated Colleges of the Midwest, held in Chicago, April 17-18, 1975. Entitled "Touching Bottom in the Bottomless Pit," the conference was intended to open a national debate on space, growth, and performance problems of…