The document contains the data files created by a Rand Corporation study on the cost of special education based on information from a 1977-78 national survey of 50 local education agencies in 14 states. The project objective is to improve decisionmaking on special education programing and finance by providing information on the services provided…

The study followed up 196 patients of all ages with severe muscular impairment who had been provided with several types of mobility aids (powered wheelchairs, Castor Carts, buggies) over a 3 year period. Of the 138 respondents, 49 were interviewed in their home environment by the evaluation team. A point system was used to quantify the daily use…

A review and general discussion of quantitative and qualitative techniques for the analysis of economic problems outside of education is presented to help educators discover new tools for planning, allocating, and evaluating educational resources. The pamphlet covers some major components of cost accounting, cost effectiveness, cost-benefit…

Selection, termination, and longterm funding of educational projects are each discussed in terms of relevant economic considerations. Planning a project requires manipulation of the variables time, cost, performance, and reliability, to obtain the best reqults whenever constraints are placed on one or more of the variables. A major difficulty with…

Policies pertaining to three basic problems in land leasing practices are examined--(1) to compare income from leases on state school lands with income from leases of similar privately owned land, (2) to identify policies regarding the disposition of conflicting bids on state school land, and (3) to identify policies regarding subleasing school…

The approach to library planning studied in this report is the use of accounting models to measure library costs and implement program budgets. A cost-flow model for a university library is developed and listed with historical data from the Berkeley General Library. Various comparisons of an exploratory nature are made of the unit costs for…

In the fall of 1969, the New York Metropolitan Reference and Research Library Agency (METRO), with the cooperation of the Medical Library Center of New York, began to plan a cost survey of the operations of the Center. The actual period of the survey is from January to June 1970. The survey provides an estimate of income and expenditures for the…

This document presents an application of cost-benefit analysis to a hypothetical university parking problem. After discussing cost-benefit analysis in general, the document applies this technique to hypothetical data in light of a checklist for general cost-benefit procedure. The checklist includes the following steps: (1) examine and quantify…

This document contains 4 papers: "A Research Base for a Diversified System of Higher Education," by T.R. McConnell, which deals with some of the many kinds of investigations necessary for designing and developing a pluralistic system of higher education; "The Structure of University Costs," by C.F. Carter, which discusses an…

A book is a presenter of data, an explicator of relationships among the data, an illustrator, and an exerciser. Using the techniques of operations analysis, educators may be able to compare, on a cost-effectiveness basis, various methods of achieving stated objectives. An adequate identification of the values and limitations of the new media does…

Cost effectiveness analysis is used in situations where benefits and costs are not readily converted into a money base. Five elements can be identified in such an analytic process: (1) The objective must be defined in terms of what it is and how it is attained; (2) alternatives to the objective must be clearly definable; (3) the costs must be…

Managers of military and civilian personnel systems justifiably demand an estimate of the payoff in dollars and cents, which can be expected to result from the implementation of a proposed selection program. The Cost of Attaining Personnel Requirements (CAPER) Model provides an optimal recruiting-selection strategy for personnel decisions which…

This report was a part of the Human Effectiveness Function Allocation Methodology (HEFAM) project, which is attempting to develop a workable cost-effectiveness methodology for man-machine function allocation. Researchers reviewed the cost-effectiveness and function allocation literature, and interviewed engineers, data analysts, programers,…

The 16 millimeter (mm) Variable-Interval Sequenced-Action Camera (VINSAC) is designed for inexpensive photographic recording of effective teacher instruction and use of instructional materials for teacher education and research purposes. The camera photographs single frames at preselected time intervals (.5 second to 20 seconds) which are…

Experience of the U.S. Government Printing Office and others has shown that electronic composition of computer processed data is more economical than printing from camera copy produced by the line printers of digital computers. But electronic composition of data not already being processed by computer is not necessarily economical. This analysis…