The Long Range Planning/Comprehensive Management Systems (LRP/CMS) program is an outgrowth of a consortium of 42 developing higher education institutions. The monograph is the result of a decade of experimentation and experience of the members of this group. As such, it is designed to present a detailed long range planning model which incorporates…

This book-length study justifies, describes, and gives an initial evaluation of the general education model developed at Los Medanos College (California). The opening chapter presents a detailed philosophic argument in favor of general education as a principle, and in support of the innovative aspects of the Los Medanos model. The argument is for…

The four purposes of this study were: (1) To compare two versions of a tailored testing model similar to one suggested by Kalisch (1974); (2) To identify levels of the variables within the two versions, which produce an efficient tailored testing procedures; (3) To compare, within each version, the results obtained when employing relatively small…

Two tailored testing models, specifying procedures by which the correctness of examinees' responses to a fixed number of test items are predicted by presenting as few items as possible to the examinee, were compared for their efficiency. The models differ in that one requires reconsideration of each prediction whenever additional information is…

An accurate forecast of the student demand by level on the academic departments of an institution is vital for budget and financial planning decisions, for faculty workload scheduling, and for physical facility planning. Many methods have been used to forecast this demand, ranging from "seat of your pants" guessing to highly complex…

The Development and Implementation of a District Computer Education Program conducted at Glasgow High School, Newark, Delaware, was designed to model full utilization of computer services in a public high school. The phases of the project included: (1) development of goals and objectives at the district level; (2) workshops for teacher training;…

This book examines the advantages and disadvantages of various methods of financing education and discusses the basic issues related to increasing efficiency in education. Section 1 offers a short history of educational finance and discusses many of the traditional approaches to financing education. Section 2 presents methods for distributing…

A management-by-objectives project designed to provide a rational basis for implementing a programming-planning-budgeting evaluation system in the school district is summarized. The project goal was to design and implement an accountability model utilizing participative management as a tool for development. Three organizational phases involved in…

Career education recognizes the centrality of careers and how career selection determines where one works and lives, one's associates, and other dimensions which are significant in defining one's life style. Curriculum is regarded as systemic--an integrated and cumulative series of experiences designed to help every student achieve increased: (1)…

The capability was studied of each of three models for producing indices that will reproduce school effectiveness rankings established a priori through simulation. The models used were a within-group regression technique, a regression model using individual scores, and a regression model using means. Data for 54 hypothetical schools on input, SES,…

The curriculum guide for Special Education is based on the Career Conscious Individual Career Education Model, designed to create career consciousness in students in all educational levels; to help them develop necessary life competencies, attitudes, and values; to assist them in visualizing possible careers; and to analyze and relate these roles…

This report presents an overview of the results of an initial research effort in the development of a comprehensive national planning model for higher education. The design of the prototype model discussed in this report is based on existing or derivable institutional and student data and is designed to permit prototype planning studies to examine…

The fourteen Title II reading projects described in this report use resources ranging from reading readiness materials for first- and second-grade pupils identified as potential reading failures, to nineteenth century newspapers on microfilm in secondary social studies. General descriptions of techniques for using the materials in the reading…

Using the center/satellite strategy (developing professionals equipped with traditional counselor skills, but who would focus on developing a better system), the Education Professions Development Act (EPDA) Pupil Personnel Service Development Institute trained Chicano teachers as bilingual counselors. Based on feedback from participants and…

The five social studies pilot programs used in the first year (1968-1969) of the SPEEDIER Project were continued and expanded to include more schools, teachers, students, and grade levels. During the Spring of 1970 it was possible to add three short-term pilot programs with only a few teachers involved in each. These pilots were: 1) American…