The purpose of this study was to examine the impact of year-round scheduling on student achievement and attendance and to conduct a cost-efficiency analysis associated with year-round education. Participants were students who attended year-round school in the fourth and fifth grades (N=95) and students who attended schools with traditional…

This report presents U.S. comparative data, collected during the last quarter of 2000 from 248 educational institutions, on facility operating costs, including general information and profiles about the participating institutions. The report provides operating cost ratios for eight common functions performed in educational facilities, including…

The use of educational cost-benefit analysis (CBA) is now widely accepted, not least in connection with the development of education systems in Third World countries. It has much to recommend it and is widely seen as preferable, both in theory and in practice, to the major alternative techniques, namely manpower planning and the social-demand…

This document contains the proceedings of the Teton Summit Conference for Program Evaluation in Nonformal Environmental Education. The Summit was co-hosted by the Teton Science School (TSS) and The Ohio State University with the goal of improving efficacy of evaluation in environmental education. Contents include: (1) What Is Evaluation? (2) For…

This paper describes the use of undergraduate teaching and research assistants in the Psychology Department of a university. This program creates additional resources for the department and provides mentoring opportunities for students who are interested in going to graduate school. Hiring and training undergraduates to be teaching assistants is…

This book describes a range of examples of internal audit in higher education as part of a process of the exchange of good practice. The book recognizes well-established links with audit theory from other contexts and makes use of theoretical perspectives explored in the financial sector. The chapters are: (1) "Quality Audit Issues"…

Discusses the theory of administrative cost accounting known as "internal pricing" for the purpose of describing how it is currently affecting the operations of academic departments. (Author)

Describes the composition of household refuse and analyses the economic considerations involved in recovering usable material and energy resources from urban solid waste. (JR)

Wyoming has become the first State in the nation to transform the concept of program budgeting into reality in every local school district. Such budgeting procedures, which link education costs directly to instructional programs rather than to general categories of expenditures, were introduced this year in all 60 of Wyoming's local school…

Architects favor metrication because it should unify the construction industry by eliminating a proliferation of sizes, mismatched uncoordinated products and procedures; and also because it should be economically feasible. (A paper presented at Building Research Institute conference, Washington, D.C., November 27, 1973.) (Author/MLF)

A system called Building Block Costing is explained, with examples of techniques, reports, and application of results. (Author/JB)

Article describes a practical method for identifying and assigning costs of products and services in an instructional materials development center. (Author)

After considering several different methods, it was concluded that primary journals for coverage of a given field can be selected rationally on the basis of their citation frequencies in an appropriate secondary journal. Library coverage of any particular field, thus, can be specified as a function of its budgeting commitment. (25 references)…

There is no shortage of appropriate techniques for the analysis of library operations. Many of those described here require no particular mathematical background, and are essentially extensions of common sense. Strengths and weaknesses of various techniques were called to attention, and wider use by librarians of certain ones was encouraged. (37…