This booklet discusses some of the applications of sophisticated technology to various aspects of education and suggests further possible applications of technologies that are still in the initial or beginning stages. The report first attempts to define the word technology, relating it to the terms audiovisual, media, and systems. Then, the…

Continuing education is not only an extension of the K-12 continuum but also the foundation for ensuring that childhood education is fully effective since children spend most of their first eighteen years under parental influence. Lifelong learning is necessary as new facts are discovered, society's needs and individual needs change, and some…

The System for Trenton's Educational Planning (STEP), a set of procedures for strategic planning, is described. The background to the project and the desired goals which led to STEP are reviewed, and the major components of the annual planning cycle, including assessment, base case planning, policy formulation, project design, simulation of…

The Human Resources Center in Pontiac, Michigan is an educational institution designed to help develop talents and human potential from early childhood through adulthood. The Center offers a new approach to the problems of urban communities through comprehensive planning; education is made to serve a broader role than it has in the past.…

The theme of this week-end conference was chosen in order to impress the Government and other authorities concerned on the necessity of libraries and librarians as an integral part of national planning. The five speeches presented are: (1) "The Principles of Educational Planning;" (2) "On Books, Libraries and Development;" (3)…

The goals of this institute were: (1) to develop guidelines and a matrix for short- and long-range planning of vocational education programs in metropolitan areas, and (2) to apply the matrix in planning for a single metropolitan area. In the first phase of the institute, guidelines were developed for planning both direct and ancillary services to…

The Second Joint Meeting of the State and National Advisory Councils on Vocational Education was held in Washington, D.C. on May 1-2, 1970. Attended by representatives of all 50 states, the District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico, the meeting dealt with the Councils' mutual activities and problems. Of particular importance to the assembled group…

The Third Joint Meeting of the State and National Advisory Councils on Vocational Education was held in Washington, D.C. on November 6-7, 1970. Attended by representatives of 47 states, the meeting dealt with mutual activities and with legislation affecting vocational education. Special attention during the meeting was focused on proposed manpower…

This document discusses the value of linear programing in finding minimum and maximum solutions to problems of resource allocation. Three models using this technique are given for the areas of educational finance, school district personnel compensation, and instructional program evaluation. (RA)

From 1968 to 1969 the EPRC focused on: staff development, definition of a specific research program, and development of methods to deal with educational policy issues in the context of longrange futures. The research program of the center is organized around educational futures and policy planning. Specific methods include Delphi techniques, goal…

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 bibliography describes the contents of selected publications considered relevant for the study of systems analysis in educational planning. The citations and their annotations, in both English and French, are organized into (1) the uses of systems analysis in educational planning, (2) selected systems analysis techniques applied to education,…

This report describes and develops a model for coordinating a variety of demographic and social statistics within a single framework. The framework proposed, together with its associated methods of analysis, serves both general and specific functions. The general aim of these functions is to give numerical definition to the pattern of society and…

An evaluative symposium conducted during the 1971 Annual Meeting of the AERA offered the following critiques on "Educational Evaluation and Decision Making," a book prepared by the Phi Delta Kappa Study Committee on Evaluation: "A Critique of the Report of the Phi Delta Kappa Study Committee on Evaluation" (Henry M. Brickell); "A Critique of the…

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…