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Conceptual Model-Based Problem Solving That Facilitates Algebra Readiness: An Exploratory Study with Computer-Assisted Instruction
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Xin, Yan Ping; Si, Luo; Hord, Casey; Zhang, Dake; Cetinas, Suleyman; Park, Joo Young – Learning Disabilities: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2012
The study explored the effects of a computer-assisted COnceptual Model-based Problem-Solving (COMPS) program on multiplicative word-problem-solving performance of students with learning disabilities or difficulties. The COMPS program emphasizes mathematical modeling with algebraic expressions of relations. Participants were eight fourth and fifth…
Descriptors: Learning Disabilities, Program Effectiveness, Teaching Methods, Problem Solving
Estimating the Cost of Adequate K-12 Educational Expenditure in Selected Midwestern States: An Adjusted Miner/McMahon Approach.
Johnson, Wayne Paul; Hickrod, G. Alan – 1985
According to a formula developed to measure the adequacy of state educational finance levels, only three of six selected midwestern states provided adequate levels of expenditure per pupil in 1981-82. The formula for determining adequacy, developed by Jerry Miner and Walter McMahon, consists of totaling adequate levels of expenditure in seven…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Educational Finance, Elementary Secondary Education, Expenditure per Student
Cost Information and Formula Funding: New Approaches.
Allen, Richard H., Ed.; Topping, James R., Ed. – 1979
A report based on a conference on the impact of cost information on statewide budgeting and planning is presented. The conference was organized around case-study reports on the use of cost information in higher education budgeting in Florida, Indiana, Washington, and Wisconsin. Rather than publishing convention proceedings, the case studies were…
Descriptors: Budgeting, Case Studies, Costs, Educational Finance