This purpose of this study was to determine which periodical index--InfoTrac or EBSCO Magazine Article Summaries--is the most appropriate for use by middle school students preparing required research projects. The study population consisted of randomly selected sixth, seventh, and eighth grade students (N=50) in a Cobb County (Georgia) middle…

One of a three-volume series concerning the development and testing of a model for determining the costs of vocational education programs and courses, this user's manual presents an overall conceptualization of the model and briefly describes each dimension. The data elements, organized into data collection instruments and recommended procedures,…

The 1978 supplement to the basic study, Higher Education Prices and Price Indexes, presents higher education price index data for fiscal years 1971 through 1978. A price index series measures the effects of price change, and price change only, on a fixed group of items. The indexes reported here measure price changes from 1967, the reference date.…

In 1980, full-time state resident undergraduate students attending AASCU-member institutions paid an average of $712 for tuition and fees, and $1,605 for room and board charges. These figures reflect a 10.6 percent average increase over 1979 costs. Including books and supplies, transportation, and personal expenses, the cost of college attendance…

A Comparable Wage Index (CWI) is an attractive mechanism for measuring geographic variations in the cost of education. A CWI measures uncontrollable variations in educator pay by observing systematic variations in the earnings of comparable workers who are not educators. Together, the 2000 census and the Occupational Employment Statistics survey…

This study examines the reliability of article coverage in the American Theological Library Association's (ATLA) Religion Database CD-ROM of two emerging theological fields: lesbian theology and womanist theology. Indexing predictability and consistency of coverage is important for the access of needed documents. There is concern that women's…

The cost of a bachelor's degree was estimated and compared for different types of institutions. The objective was to develop a single index to show how much each type of institution spends on producing a bachelor's degree graduate, and to use trend data to show how these costs will change over time. The basic concept associated with the cost of a…

Because U.S. government expenditures for research and development (R & D) comprise more than half of the total national support in these areas, the government plays the major role in determining the nature and objectives of R & D efforts. This report examines the federal response to national needs in terms of R & D support and changing R & D…

State educational support, full-time-equivalent (FTE) enrollments, and tuition charges at the public colleges and universities in Kentucky from 1971 to 1980 were studied, using a comparative indexing technique. Financial data are presented in actual and indexed values, and are shown in both current and constant dollars. State educational support…

Considerations for establishing a system for indexing tuition and fees to the cost of education and implications for state policy are examined. It is suggested that the attraction of the indexing approach to tuition arises from a number of causes including the upward pressure on tuition created by changing demographic and fiscal conditions.…

In 1974 the New Jersey Board of Higher Education appointed an independent Commission on Financing Postsecondary Education to develop a long-range financing plan for education beyond high school. Data were analyzed, issues debated, and alternative financing plans discussed regarding the Commission charge to: (1) develop policies to promote access…

This Publication consists of nine articles that were originally prepared for a 1975 conference on "Critical Issues in Educational Finance," which was cosponsored by the Virginia Institute for Educational Finance, the Institutes on Education (Madison College), and the Virginia Association of School Executives. Included are the following articles:…

Constituting the first material accomplishment of the recently formed International Network of Rural Youth Researchers (INRYR), this annotated bibliography presents abstracts of 19 papers presented at the Fourth World Congress for Rural Sociology during the summer of 1976 at Torun, Poland in a seminar entitled "Rural Youth: Human Resource or…

This document profiles a total of 78 resources to assist individuals responsible for development and implementation of career academies. The resources are organized into sections that are each devoted to one of the following types of information resources: information indexes; search engines; World Wide Web portals for education; lesson plan…

Data charts show trends in investment gains for college faculty retirement funds in the stock market, 1990-93; distribution by rank, average salary, fringe benefits, and tenure status of two- and four-year college faculty in 1992-93; and the relationship between faculty salaries and the cost of living, 1986-87 to 1992-93. (MSE)