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Download full textCrookston, Mary Evalyn – US Office of Education, Federal Security Agency, 1941
The U.S. Office of Education undertook this study at the request of State supervisors of school libraries for data to aid school administrators and librarians in determining the cost of operating libraries. The findings of this exploratory study have been gathered from a limited sampling of a group of selected high-school libraries. It is hoped…
Descriptors: School Libraries, Unit Costs, High Schools, Library Administration
Bowen, Brian – Progressive Architecture, 1973
The second installment of a Building Cost File. Deals with putting cost data to use in estimating. The building classification code rounds out the actual filing guide. Related articles are EA 504 949-951, EA 504 571-572, and EA 504 578. (Author)
Descriptors: Architects, Architectural Programing, Classification, Cluster Grouping
Peer reviewedBerrong, Joseph M.; And Others – Journal of Dental Education, 1982
Development of an instructional materials center and self-instructional materials on clinical dental procedures is described. The center is located near students' operatories and the student-tested programs were developed cost-effectively and relatively quickly. (MSE)
Descriptors: Clinical Diagnosis, Higher Education, Independent Study, Laboratory Procedures
Peer reviewedVandever, Jan J. – Mathematics Teacher, 1980
Masters of three worksheets are provided which require students to name selected polygons, compute areas of triangles, rectangles, squares, and trapezoids, and compute cost per square unit. (MK)
Descriptors: Costs, Geometric Concepts, Mathematical Applications, Mathematics Instruction
Peer reviewedBennett, Nancy L.; Schimmel, Richard J. – Journal of Allied Health, 1981
Discusses a study conducted to define costs of continuing education programing and to examine the productivity of professional program staff. Three unit cost factors were compared: budgeting on a per program, per participant, and per instructional unit basis. (Author/JOW)
Descriptors: Continuing Education, Health Personnel, Postsecondary Education, Productivity
Illinois Community Coll. Board, Springfield. – 1986
Fiscal year (FY) 1985 results of the annual unit cost study of the Illinois public community colleges are presented, based on data on course offerings, enrollments, and costs. After an introductory overview, data and analyses are presented, covering FY 1985 net instructional unit cost compared with previous years; net instructional unit cost, full…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Educational Finance, Expenditure per Student, Expenditures
An Alternative Method for Computing Unit Costs and Productivity Ratios. AIR 1984 Annual Forum Paper.
Winstead, Wayland H.; And Others – 1984
An alternative measure for evaluating the performance of academic departments was studied. A comparison was made with the traditional manner for computing unit costs and productivity ratios: prorating the salary and effort of each faculty member to each course level based on the personal mix of course taught. The alternative method used averaging…
Descriptors: College Faculty, College Programs, Cost Estimates, Departments
Illinois Community Coll. Board, Springfield. – 1989
The results of the annual unit cost study of the Illinois public community colleges are presented for fiscal year (FY) 1988, based on data on course offerings, enrollments, and costs provided by the colleges. After an initial overview, data and analyses are presented showing net instructional unit costs for FY 1988 compared with previous years;…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Educational Finance, Expenditure per Student, Expenditures
Illinois Community Coll. Board, Springfield. – 1988
Fiscal year (FY) 1987 results of the annual unit cost study of the Illinois public community colleges are presented in this report, based on data on course offerings, enrollments, and costs provided by the colleges. After an initial summary overview, data and analyses are presented showing net instructional unit costs for FY 1987 compared with…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Educational Finance, Expenditure per Student, Expenditures
HUBBARD, ROBERT E. – 1962
THIS STUDY DESCRIBES A 1960 EVALUATION OF INSTRUCTIONAL COSTS BY STUDENT LEVEL AT WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY IN DETROIT. DIRECT COSTS OF INSTRUCTION WERE DETERMINED BY AMOUNT OF FACULTY TIME DEVOTED TO INSTRUCTION AND REPORTED AS A PERCENTAGE OF TOTAL FACULTY TIME. A COST PER CREDIT HOUR WAS OBTAINED BY STUDENT LEVEL. DATA WAS COMPUTERIZED. COMPUTER…
Descriptors: Computers, Credits, Data Analysis, Data Collection
Virginia State Dept. of Community Colleges, Richmond. – 1968
CONCLUSIONS IN THREE AREAS WERE DERIVED FROM TABULAR PRESENTATIONS OF UNIT COST DATA FROM COLORADO, DELAWARE, GEORGIA, ILLINOIS, NORTH CAROLINA, OKLAHOMA, AND OREGON--(1) SMALL COLLEGES COST MORE TO OPERATE THAN LARGER COLLEGES. COSTS INCREASE AS MORE STUDENTS ENROLL IN A COLLEGE BUT NOT IN PROPORTION TO THE ENROLLMENT. (2) VOCATIONAL AND…
Descriptors: Academic Education, Educational Finance, Full Time Equivalency, Program Costs
SCHEIDT, OMAR HENRY – 1966
THIS STUDY OF THREE CALIFORNIA PUBLIC JUNIOR COLLEGES, WITH 1,500 TO 4,500 STUDENTS, IDENTIFIED THE PER STUDENT COST OF EACH OF 86 STUDENT PERSONNEL SERVICES, DETERMINED THE TOTAL COST OF SUCH SERVICES, AND DEVELOPED A PROCEDURE FOR DETERMINING THE COSTS. GATHERED BY INTERVIEWS AND STUDY OF RECORDS, DATA WERE COMPILED AND ANALYZED BY FOUR 1620…
Descriptors: Ancillary School Services, Budgets, Costs, Doctoral Dissertations
Robbins, Leslie F.; Bokelman, W. Robert – 1965
Facilities data for 181 colleges opened between 1961 and 1965 are summarized. Data from the survey suggests the institutional characteristics, type and purpose of the new colleges, and the trends in enrollment distribution. The facilities of the new colleges are tabulated according to new construction and rehabilitation costs by categories of…
Descriptors: Construction Costs, Educational Finance, Enrollment Trends, Facility Improvement
Texas Information Exchange, Austin. – 1976
A questionnaire was designed and circulated to all member libraries of the Texas Information Exchange to gather data associated with the costs and volume of interlibrary loan activity from September 1, 1975 to February 28, 1976. Forty of the forty-five members of the Exchange participated in the study. In the area of costs, information was…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, College Libraries, Interlibrary Loans, Library Networks
Rocke, Hans Joachim – 1974
This study was conducted to analyze and summarize raw data obtained from a 1972 study: "Report on a Cost Study of Specific Technical Processing Activities of the California State University and College Libraries" with the hypothesis that the cost of technical processes increases as the production volume both rises above and falls below…
Descriptors: Charts, College Libraries, Costs, Data Analysis
