This report describes the plans and objectives of a project to improve school facilities planning by investigating alternative planning strategies and training selected educational planners from around the U.S. During the first year of the project, emphasis will be placed on basic research into the process of educational facilities planning.…

This document examines graduate studies in the history departments of the universities of Ontario. Emphasis is placed on the present state of affairs in relation to: faculty, graduate students, master's programs, Ph.D. programs, cooperation, and libraries and archives, immediate developments, and the future. A summary of the recommendations…

Findings in industrialized countries, such as those of Jencks and Coleman, indicate that socioeconomic status has a strong influence on academic achievement and that school effects are of lesser importance. This study of socioeconomic influences and school influences on the performance of 23,615 Ugandan children taking the Primary Leaving…

The New Jersey Department of Education conducted a national search for existing materials and procedures related to one or more of the following categories: goal-setting procedures, objectives and existing banks of objectives, assessment procedures, guidelines for program selection, and evaluation of program effectiveness and efficiency. This…

This monograph provides a theoretical substantiation for benefit-cost analysis and cost-effectiveness analysis in school system planning. Nine examples of decision-making situations are presented. A simple case of a single objective to be attained with one plan being selected from a set of proposed plans with no resource constraints evolves into a…

Systematic analyses of instructional objectives are requested more and more in educational contexts, but there is little agreement about what such analyses are and what value they have. A few possible criteria for goal analyses are outlined and illustrated: empiricism and comprehensiveness in seeking information, firm rules for decision-making on…

A study was conducted to determine the applicability of computer technology to the education and research activities of Air University. Twenty-five units of the University were studied in depth. The information thus collected provided the data required for analysis. Data analysis indicated the set of functional education and research activities…

This document presents two kinds of data, gathered from several State reports, that pertain to higher education facilities. The first type of data reflects the standards and space utilization forecast used in planning higher education facilities; the second provides information about the utilization of existing facilities. Planning standards are…

The OISE Educational Planning Department launched a research program to determine the current patterns of fertility and migration of the Ontario population, with a view to subsequent investigations into the interrelationships between population growth and shift and education. Demographers and educators engaged in demographic research related to…

This document describes, analyzes, and interprets international developments reflected in public educational expenditures. The report includes (1) a survey of educational expenditures of 35 UNESCO member countries between 1950 and 1965 in relation to other aggregate data, (2) a description and interpretation of shifts in the composition of total…

Actions taken in 1970 by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) are reviewed and discussed in this paper. These actions include amendment of educational broadcast rules for the first time in 17 years, decisions in the area of educational programing, a decision regarding the ultra high frequency (UHF)-land mobile dilemma, and a promise to…

The papers in this volume were delivered at a Symposium on the "Effective Use of Resources in State Higher Education" at the annual meeting of the Southern Regional Education Board in Houston, Texas, June 11-12, 1970. The papers deal with three general subjects: (1) the orderly development of graduate education; (2) evaluating the community junior…

The proceedings of the training institute include papers by Hans Myer on the nature of special education, goals for the handicapped by Marvin Beekman, identification of handicapped students by Ernest Willenberg, instructional materials by Wayne Lance, and the role of the Council for Exceptional Children by John Kidd. Transcriptions are provided of…

Starting with the premise that there is a need for continuous vocational education from early childhood throughout life, this study sought to develop guidelines for use in organizing, operating, and administering prevocational education programs at the junior high school level. The study was national in scope and made use of a questionaire to…

To explore questions such as: (1) What kind of vocational training is really needed? (2) How much should be specific, and how much general? (3) At what levels of the educational ladder can vocational content best be inserted? (4) How much can be done within the present framework of our secondary schools, and what sort of new institutions are…