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Download full textNational Highway Traffic Safety Administration (DOT), Washington, DC. – 1986
This handbook is designed to help managers address safety belt usage issues through a cost-effective and direct approach--establishing an employee safety belt program. The handbook offers a hands-on guide for conducting the program and provides for implementation at all levels. The handbook contains cost information, a program overview, policy and…
Descriptors: Accident Prevention, Corporate Education, Cost Effectiveness, Course Content
Ridley, William J.; Hull, McAllister H., Jr. – 1986
Designed to assist educational decision-makers at the school and district level, this report summarizes the work of the National Task Force on Educational Technology, which was formed in the fall of 1984 to investigate the potential of appropriately integrated technology for improving learning in American schools. The task force used six primary…
Descriptors: Computer Uses in Education, Cost Effectiveness, Curriculum Development, Demonstration Programs
Cobb, H. Brian, Ed.; Larkin, Dave, Ed. – 1982
Five policy papers address methods of funding vocational/special education and relative benefits versus expenditures for different employment training systems for moderately and severely handicapped persons. The first paper critiques the present vocational education funding system for handicapped students. Federal funding mechanisms, state and…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Comparative Analysis, Compliance (Legal), Cost Effectiveness
Pecorella, Patricia A.; Bowers, David G. – 1976
Conventional accounting systems provide no indication as to what conditions and events lead to reported outcomes, since they traditionally do not include measurements of the human organization and its relationship to events at the outcome stage. Human resources accounting is used to measure these additional types of data. This research is…
Descriptors: Accounting, Administration, Attendance, Cost Effectiveness
Nathan, Richard P.; And Others – 1978
This second volume of a three-volume report of the National Commission for Manpower Policy on Public Service Employment (PSE) contains the interim report of the Brookings Institution to the Commission based on their onsite monitoring of the program. The report is divided into seven chapters. Chapter 1 provides an overview of the report, and…
Descriptors: Cost Effectiveness, Economic Development, Economic Research, Employment Patterns
Owens, Thomas R.; And Others – 1976
The rationale for using multiple evaluation strategies in a comprehensive program evaluation is described. Examples are given of eleven strategies used in the evaluation of the Experience-Based Career Education project developed by the Northwest Regional Educational Laboratory through sponsorship of the National Institute of Education. Strengths…
Descriptors: Career Education, Case Studies, Comparative Testing, Content Analysis
Simison, Diane; And Others – 1981
A study reviewed the measurement problems that would confront a study team performing a national cost-benefit analysis of vocational education and presented alternative strategies to overcome these measurement problems and to provide input into assessing the feasibility of conducting a national cost-benefit study. To meet these objectives,…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Change Strategies, Cost Effectiveness, Data Collection
System Sciences, Inc., Chapel Hill, NC. – 1979
This document contains the four state-of-the-art papers that serve as planning materials for construction of the planning guide for the project, Accessibility to Vocational Education Programs and Facilities for Handicapped Persons. The first paper suggests techniques by which school administrators can identify barriers to vocational education…
Descriptors: Accessibility (for Disabled), Cost Effectiveness, Cost Estimates, Disabilities
Weiss, Rita S. – 1980
Evaluation of the 1974-77 INREAL (INclass REActive Language) demonstration model project, initially serving 518 children (aged 3-5 years), focused on the Colorado program's objectives of increasing language handicapped and bilingual (Spanish) children's language development significantly and preventing later language-related learning problems in…
Descriptors: Beginning Reading, Bilingual Students, Cost Effectiveness, Educational Assessment
Alfred, Richard L. – 1980
The concept of socioeconomic impact, as it relates to two-year colleges, is examined in terms of studies that have been conducted. Measures of socioeconomic impact, such as personal income, occupational status, levels of education, are discussed and studies focusing on these measures are cited. Additional studies are pointed to which define…
Descriptors: Community Benefits, Community Colleges, Community Development, Cost Effectiveness
Kettner, George – 1979
This document describes and analyzes the 1976-1977 Head Start Program Information Report (PIR) data. PIR is a comprehensive data collection effort directed at the programs of all Head Start grantees of which there were approximately 1,100 in 1976-1977. The unit of analysis in this study is the grantee rather than the agencies delegated by grantees…
Descriptors: Class Size, Comparative Analysis, Cost Effectiveness, Data Analysis
Riley, Bob E. – 1979
This two-part report discusses the implementation of the four-day week on college campuses and summarizes the results of a survey conducted to investigate: (1) the history of the four-day college week in Texas; (2) how Texas colleges using this system integrate their operations into the four-day week; and (3) the future acceptance of the four-day…
Descriptors: Administrative Problems, Adoption (Ideas), Community Colleges, Commuting Students
1979
These proceedings contain eleven presentations made at the 1979 Adult Education Dissemination Conference (July 16-18) in Roanoke, Virginia, to disseminate results of demonstration projects funded by the Adult Education Act, Title VI, P.L. 95-561 and Amendments, Section 310. A brief report on a special project workshop (March 4-7, 1980) in Roanoke…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Education, Basic Skills, Beginning Reading
ABT, CLARK C.; MILLER, PETER S. – 1967
A MODEL INTENDED TO PREDICT THE RELATIVE COST-EFFECTIVENESS OF ALTERNATIVE EDUCATIONAL IMPROVEMENT PROGRAMS WITHIN THE SAME SCHOOL-COMMUNITY SETTING IS DEVELOPED. THE MODEL IS AN ATTEMPT TO AID IN DECISIONS CONCERNING ALTERNATIVE PROGRAMS OF TITLE I OF THE ELEMENTARY AND SECONDARY EDUCATION ACT OF 1965. COSTS ARE ESTIMATED FROM BUDGET ALLOCATIONS.…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Community Benefits, Compensatory Education, Computer Oriented Programs
Eddy, Margot Sanders – 1979
The experiences of a variety of postsecondary institutions using different academic calendar options are examined. Several calendar options are described: the traditional semester, the early semester, 4-1-4, the quarter system, the trimester plan, composite plans, and year-round plans. The traditional semester calendar begins in mid-September and…
Descriptors: Bibliographies, Change Strategies, College Faculty, College Students
