This report presents the prototype software resulting from an initial research effort in the development of a comprehensive national planning model for higher education. The software for the prototype model requires as input existing or derivable institutional and student data and is designed to permit prototype planning studies to examine the…

The Board of Trustees of the Kansas City Metropolitan Junior College District sponsored a long range planning study for the future development of the district. Under the direction of Dr. Raymond J. Young, this study was designed to update an earlier one completed in 1968 by the staff in the light of changed conditions and trends. Information was…

This volume focuses on a single theme of central importance in contemporary European education: compensatory education. The document begins with an introduction by Barry J. Hake. There follows a deliberately polemical analysis of the relationships between social and educational ideologies by Gras. Zimmer takes up the conceptual distinction between…

In order to be effective, management concepts must be taught to all members of the management team. Team members must learn that they are truly interdependent and must develop a strong interrelationship based on mutual respect for each other's expertise and point of view. Team management is beginning to develop when each member displays complete…

This paper deals with systems concepts, particularly those related to management information systems (MIS) as exemplified by the Center for the Study of Evaluation (CSE) Formative Evaluation Kit. The concept of MIS is in numerous ways more flexible than might be imagined from a cursory reading of the business-management literature. An MIS does not…

One in the series described in SO 008 058, this team report is a discussion in two parts of the economics of nonformal education. Part 1 deals with the national allocation of resources to the educational processes. Gathering reliable empirical data on cost-benefit and/or rates of return for allocation decisions is a critical problem. Despite this…

On the instruction of the Council of Ontario Universities, the Advisory Committee on Academic Planning has conducted a planning assessment for graduate studies in physics and astronomy. Contents of the report encompass future enrollment projections in physics graduate studies, the distribution of physics graduate students among the universities,…

This document details the Affirmative Action Plan in effect at Gallaudet College. Following a policy statement, chapter 2 indicated the affirmative action procedures followed in the areas of policy dissemination, administration and monitoring, reporting and evaluation, training and development programs, recruitment, promotion and selection,…

This study is one of the 20 planning documents developed as a result of the report, "Implementation of Continuous Planning and Coordination of Postsecondary Education Within the Michigan Department of Education." Emphasis is placed on the proper scope of educational program offerings, location of institutions with respect to major…

Service delivery to handicapped pupils is discussed in regard to the relationship between the California Master Plan for Special Education (see EC 062 915) and the Bureau of Pupil Personnel's Plan for Improvement of Guidance Services. The goals, benefits and limitations of both plans are described; and each plan is examined and compared in terms…

By reviewing the literature on metric education, the authors identified eight major categories of concern: (1) national planning, (2) state planning, (3) budget needs, (4) curriculum development, (5) inservice training, (6) exemplary programs, (7) legislation, and (8) anticipated needs. A 16-item questionnaire to assess status with respect to…

A collection of eight papers from seven foreign countries and the United States, this technical report of the "Creativity of the School" workshop held in Portugal in 1972 presents statements of existing positions on educational innovation in eight countries. Among the topics discussed are reform in French-speaking Belgian schools,…

The collection of papers concerning aspects of special education administration contains five articles on conceptual frameworks for the organization of special education services. Twelve papers examine organizational and administrative strategies and models such as coordination of services and special education services appropriate to sparsely…

Many of the references in this bibliography are followed by a listing of ERIC descriptors to indicate the contents. The items are grouped into six sections: (1) learning and the learning environment; (2) classroom environment; (3) school and educational environments; (4) environmental influences upon learning and education; color, thermal…

In this bibliography on education in India, 192 publications are cited and annotated. The majority of the publications are research studies reported in Indian journals from July through September of 1969. The largest categories are administration and organization, educational psychology, student examination and evaluation, and educational policy…