Based on workshop discussions, this report attempts to lay down broad guidelines for Canadian educational research and development. The guidelines postulate that a comprehensive policy should include a pattern of priorities that (1) encourage the development of high quality scholarly institutions, (2) provide for risk capital for exploratory basic…

This report, a clear statement of how one district developed a planning system, offers both a theoretical and a practical approach to providing the superintendent, his staff, and the board of education with a comprehensive planning system instrument for making policy decisions and allocating resources. Also provided are guidelines for involving…

This seminar focused on costs and productivity as they are defined within both education and economics. Some topics that received special attention were: definition problems, estimating methods, analysis methods, existing research results, and examples of improvement in educational efficiency. The document groups seminar papers under (1) general…

A program was conducted to prepare a plan for research toward empirical determination of critical and procedures for optimal selection of cost-effective methods and media. The procedure followed was a review of pertinent literature, analysis of the findings, identification of problems for further research, and formulation of new approaches to…

Maintenance of sanitation in buildings, plants, offices, and institutions; the selection of cleaning materials for these purposes; and the organization and supervision of the cleaning program are becoming increasingly complex and needful of a higher cost of handling. This book describes these problems and gives helpful information and guidance for…

This paper identifies the curricular-instructional implications of PPBS. The author (1) describes the purposes of PPBS, (2) proposes a feasible implementation strategy for local schools, (3) identifies potential pitfalls that should be avoided, (4) formulates a possible role description for supervisors, (5) identifies local schools using PPBS, and…

The broad design features of a national day care cost effectiveness experiment, made to assist the Office of Economic Activity in formulating a "request for proposals" to actually operate and implement such an experiment, are presented. An attempt has been made in the report to present rationales and recommendations about day care program types to…

A questionnaire was designed to aid the interested professional in describing, characteristics and analyzing his game, model, or simulation, and tested on a number of Department of Defense (DOD) games. An over-riding goal for the questionnaire was to produce a categorization scheme for games in general. The different sections of the questionnaire…

This paper attempts to describe the advantages of "narrow-band" applications of communications satellites for education. It begins by discussing the general controversy surrounding the use of satellites in education, by placing the concern within the larger context of the general debate over the uses of new technologies in education, and…

Reviews development of the investment concept in education, analyzes some of its strengths and weaknesses, and cites recent data on the desirability of further educational investment. Identifies educational benefits that are not commonly recognized and are not usually included in economic analyses of the value of education. (Author/JG)

This paper sketches some highlights of research in the economics of education since 1960. (CD)

For detailed information that needs to be retrieved occasionally before being memorized, individualized instruction is the key. Unfortunately, many executives confuse the term with the program instruction which they studied in the early 1960s. Information is provided to help the trainer convince management that self-paced learning succeeds, and…

Francis J. Bellamy Elementary School was a fast-tracked project, and as such is a showcase for materials and construction techniques evaluated for both performance and critical path scheduling. (Author)

Contains an account of the conclusions and recommendations of the International Conference on Economic Analysis for Educational Technology Decisions (June 1978), as well as an annotated bibliography of 26 working documents, and a separate annotated listing of approximately 350 articles, documents, books, and journals organized by types of…

Outlines the history of the development of the government accounting standards and discusses the research conducted by three professional organizations aimed at improving governmental accounting standards. (Author/MLF)