In response to a provision of the Education Amendments of 1978 concerning evaluation practices and procedures, this report examines four aspects of evaluation in education which focus on how funds allocated to evaluation can be spent more effectively and yield more useful results. On this basis, groups of recommendations are made to both Congress…

This paper provides a current status report of the operational capability and use of the Time-shared, Interactive, Computer Controlled, Information Television (TICCIT)+10 system at the Model Secondary School for the Deaf (MSSD), Gallaudet College, Washington, D.C. TICCIT+10 is a version of the TICCIT system, which was modified to meet the needs of…

Since August of 1976, the Faculty of Nursing at the University of Calgary has developed and implemented a four-phase computer assisted instruction (CAI) project. In Phase I, the pilot project to demonstrate effectiveness of CAI as an alternative teaching strategy in that setting has been completed and replication is on-going. In Phase II,…

In this report, an abbreviated descriptive summary of each Title I compensatory education project implemented by local education agencies in New York State during fiscal year 1977 is provided. Listed by county and city, each program is explained in terms of grade level, staffing, objectives, services, materials, number of pupils served and…

Needs assessment is a fundamental part of evaluation, and yet it has not developed as rapidly in sophistication as other evaluation methodologies. This is largely due to the difficulty in measuring real needs, as opposed to wants, interests, etc. This paper discusses some of the critical issues in needs assessment, and outlines some of the…

The purpose of this report is to present and prioritize the major environmental, safety, and social/institutional issues associated with the further development of Solar Total Energy Systems (STES). Solar total energy systems represent a specific application of the Federally-funded solar technologies. To provide a background for this analysis, the…

The major problem facing educational administrators in the next decade will be the need to control costs within the context of reduced resources. This paper, by centering its discussion around the problem of declining enrollments, discusses the role of administrators in educational finance. Restrictions to cost control in Canadian schools are…

This paper discusses potential trade-offs between equity and efficiency as they pertain to the implementation of federal policy in education. It is the policy analyst's role, the paper says, to investigate the existence and magnitude of such trade-offs in a manner most useful for policy-making. The first section reviews the rationale for a federal…

Based primarily on identified needs for library and information services for the citizens of Alabama, the goals of the five-year program described in this report are stated as follows: (1) to ensure the basic minimums of library and information resources and services adequate to meet the needs of the citizens of Alabama, (2) to strengthen the…

AN INTERNATIONAL GROUP FOR THE ORGANIZATION FOR ECONOMIC COOPERATION AND DEVELOPMENT (OECD) MET TO EXCHANGE METHODS OF EDUCATIONAL PLANNING, TECHNIQUES, AND PROGRESS, AND TO DISCUSS MEANS OF MAKING EDUCATION AVAILABLE TO ALL SOCIOECONOMIC LEVELS OF SOCIETY. RAPIDLY EXPANDING INDUSTRIAL, TECHNOLOGICAL, MILITARY, AND ADMINISTRATIVE PROGRAMS IN ALL…

The Educational Priorities Panel (EPP) is a coalition of parent and civic organizations which was formed to focus attention on spending practices and fiscal priorities of the New York City Board of Education. The highly centralized nature of the school system, the myriad of competing interests which influence policy, and a large and complicated…

The purpose of this study is to evaluate present provisions for the financing of school transportation in Tennessee. It includes the following: (1) an analysis of variations among Tennessee districts in the per pupil costs of transportation, (2) an evaluation of the factors that cause variations in per pupil costs that are beyond the control of…

Papers include: national resources and education (B.E. Rodmell); cost control and the use of resources: a local authority view (W.H.P. Davison); problems facing chief education officers (J.C.D. Rainbow, G.M. Rickus, C.W. Phillips); and corporate management techniques used by the local authority (J.D. Hender, W.U. Jackson). (MSE)

The present paper employs a behavioral simulation model and data on 4,693 school districts to provide new information about the expenditure effects of the current Elementary and Secondary Education Act Title I program and three major alternatives. The model examines the likely effect of the four options, differing in the choice of targets…

An interesting econometric problem is to decide whether any given state in the budget process is an example of the political or the bureaucratic model of budgeting. The current paper presents a method of deciding this question and then uses it to study local governmental spending on education. The method is based on the important difference…