A statement of purpose for Educational Radio and Television of Iran (ERTI) in Iran's education and development process proposes that ERTI act as a leader and innovator in programs covering a wide range of subject matter and involving both broadcasting and non-broadcasting activities. A balanced program is suggested here which would enable the…

This book is intended to aid educational officials in defining the role of new educational technologies and media and in determining their cost effectiveness. Section 1 contains two methodological studies that examine the application of cost effectiveness studies to new educational media and discuss the use of standard tables for calculating…

This publication of the California Governor's Committee on Child Development Programs focuses on the Alternative Child Care Program in California (AB 3059). The report looks back over four years of the AB 3059, reviews the goals of that legislation, and measures the program's accomplishments against those goals. In early 1976, the Governor's…

Residence hall facility use for the State University of New York (SUNY) is examined in data collected in fall 1981 and compared with fall 1974 data. The study includes all state-operated/funded institutions that have residence hall facilities. Any residence hall facilities available at locally sponsored SUNY community colleges are financed in a…

Education is in a period of increasing obligation to produce in a period of decreasing resources. Colleges, gradually adjusting to this situation, are undergoing changes in both staffing and administration. Three categories of change in small amd medium-sized higher education institutions that are likely to occur in the next few years are: (1)…

The recommendations presented here are the products of a six-month project aimed at identifying state mandates that limit the discretion of local school boards and school administrators in Pennsylvania. The department of education in Pennsylvania first analyzed the cost of these mandates in dollars and in decreased local control of education; it…

The purpose of this monograph is to present broad considerations related to the collection and analysis of cost information on programs for young handicapped children and to illustrate those considerations with examples of systems used in four rural Handicapped Children's Early Education Program (HCEEP) projects. The two papers in Section I…

A project was developed to improve vocational administrators' program management skills through diffusion of the cost-effectiveness analysis system which was developed at Indiana University-Bloomington. Specific objectives were (1) to summarize the cost-effectiveness analysis system, (2) to develop a conceptual framework for the system's diffusion…

The features of two currently popular evaluation models for higher education institutions are described. Each system was designed and developed to respond to what was perceived as different sides of a common problem. Two lines of analysis on costs and outcomes have been developed by the National Center for Higher Education Management (NCHEMS). The…

Implications of and resource information on the use of computer assisted instruction (CAI) in California public schools are presented under the following headings: (1) definition of CAI, (2) effectiveness of CAI, (3) obstacles to the use of CAI, (4) the turnaround in CAI acceptance and use, (5) instructional potential of CAI, and (6) how to obtain…

A system to determine cost effectiveness of class size should be based on both budgeted and actual expenditures and credit hours at the individual course section level. These two factors, in combination, are often expressed as cost per credit hour, and this statistic forms the primary means of evaluating planned "inputs" against actual "outputs."…

The discipline of marketing, applied to higher education, has the potential for increasing enrollments, reducing attrition, and making college services more responsive to the needs of consumers. Faced with enrollments that were below projections, Prince George's Community College devised a four-stage marketing plan that focused on service,…

After introducing the financial dilemmas which community colleges face, this paper states the approaches generally advocated for sound community college financing: negotiated budget under full state support, unit rate formulas, minimum foundation funding, and cost-based funding. Criteria related to those principles include: (1) consistency with…

This study exploring ways in which educational technology might be used to provide better schools for less money focuses on technological applications utilizing instructional radio, instructional television, computer-assisted instruction, computer-managed instruction, and programmed instruction. Based on a review of the literature on the costs and…

Scenarios depicting both positive and negative alternative futures were prepared to serve as a source of ideas in this study of ways to improve education with less money. Included in this third volume are (1) a disaster scenario based on piecemeal, reactive solutions; (2) a scenario based on applications of "big media"; (3) a scenario…