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Engineering Industry Training Board, London (England). – 1968
This document outlines various approaches to training of professional engineers in the British system. There are a number of educational paths which the student engineer may follow, involving various periods spent in "sandwich" courses, university or technical college courses, and on-the-job training in an industrial situation. The…
Descriptors: Engineers, Industrial Training, Occupational Mobility, On the Job Training
Youst, David B. – 1970
Systems technology has much to offer as a tool which can help counselors in guidance departments to develop their own goals, to establish their own priorities, and to develop monitoring techniques to evaluate their progress toward these ends. The lists of projects under development involving computers, printed materials, and multi-media materials…
Descriptors: Computer Science, Counseling, Counselor Role, Guidance Objectives
Wallhaus, Robert A. – 1970
Operations research is defined as the application of scientific or quantitative methods to problems involving the operations of a system, which are directed toward obtaining optimal solutions. The goal, as applied to mental health systems, is the establishment of a "best" improvement path which can be implemented with minimum uncertainty. The…
Descriptors: Cost Effectiveness, Mental Health Clinics, Mental Health Programs, Models
Holmes, Donald C. – 1969
The objectives of this study is to identify the chief problem areas in microform technology and to direct attention to those upon which research should go forward immediately. Its constant focus is the needs of the user. The principal investigator undertook to gather the needed data by indepth interviews with individuals closely connected with all…
Descriptors: Audiovisual Aids, Filmstrips, Library Surveys, Microfiche
Morphet, Edgar L.; Jesser, David L., Eds. – 1969
The sixth volume of "Designing Education for the Future" series, a project initiated by eight state departments of education and supported by the U.S. Office of Education. This volume presents 34 papers in which 39 authorities from education and industry discuss the contributions that modern technology can make to educational planning, research,…
Descriptors: Communications, Educational Planning, Educational Programs, Educational Technology
Tracz, George S. – 1969
Mathematical model building for educational planning in this country has been heavily influenced by the USOE DYNAMOD Model, a computerized Markov-type or input-output model. However, the input-output method is structurally inadequate to reflect the true behavior of the educational system. To introduce some elements of decision making into the…
Descriptors: Cost Effectiveness, Data Collection, Decision Making, Educational Planning
Cohen, S. Alan; Reinstein, Steven – 1969
A program developed at Yeshiva University to emphasize self-directing, self-correcting techniques for teaching basic reading skills to socially disadvantaged junior high school students is discussed. Seven laws of learning which underlie the guidelines for the program are presented. The following four guidelines to effective methodology are…
Descriptors: Disadvantaged Youth, Individualized Programs, Junior High School Students, Learning Theories
Stanford Univ., CA. School Planning Lab. – 1969
The first of an occasional series of publications dealing with all aspects of systems building. This issue is devoted to a general overview of all systems projects funded by the Ford Foundation's Educational Facilities Laboratories, since the School Construction Systems Development Project was first funded in 1962. It includes the following…
Descriptors: College Housing, Experimental Schools, High Schools, Methods
Mansergh, Gerald G., Ed. – 1969
Three major presentations made at an October 1968 conference at Hartland, Michigan, for public school administrators and university professors are "The Systems Movement and Educational Administration," by Glenn L. Immegart; "Cost-Utility Analysis and Educational Decision-Making," by Austin D. Swanson; and "Educational…
Descriptors: Bibliographies, Cost Effectiveness, Decision Making, Educational Administration
Judy, Richard W.; And Others – 1968
In illustrating how systems analysis can aid university planning, a report is presented of the early results of the application of systems analysis to problems of planning in the Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto. Analysis is reported of various alternative policies concerning enrollment, curriculum, involvement of teaching, hospitals,…
Descriptors: Computer Oriented Programs, Critical Path Method, Educational Planning, Input Output Analysis
New Jersey State Council for Environmental Education, Mountain Lakes. – 1969
An evaluation instrument, utilizing the systems analysis approach for self evaluation, is designed for use by project directors and staff in assessing existing Title III environmental and outdoor education projects in New Jersey. The evaluation instrument was first developed about two years ago. The original instrument was presented to persons…
Descriptors: Administration, Educational Planning, Environmental Education, Evaluation Methods
Brandon, George L., Ed. – Amer Vocat J, 1969
Twelve research reviews in this issue pertain to comprehensive planning in vocational and technical education organized under these topics: (1) "The Systems Approach" treats a Pennsylvania approach to state-local Program planning and an Oregon Planning Programming Budgeting Systems institute, (2) "Program Planning" includes a discussion of the…
Descriptors: Bibliographies, Educational Research, Federal State Relationship, Program Development
Falk, William W. – 1974
In providing a general systems theory approach to the study of occupational choice two major goals are: (1) present a macro level framework in which extant theoretical approaches and concepts may be ordered; and (2) explicate the complexity of dealing with only one partially developed submodel derived from the broader model of relationships about…
Descriptors: Career Choice, Classification, Comparative Analysis, Decision Making
New Jersey State Dept. of Education, Trenton. Div. of Research, Planning, and Evaluation. – 1974
A needs assessment is a procedure or process that identifies the perceived or expressed needs of a school district. The process involves the use of various measurements and activities to obtain the data needed to define the gap between "what is" and "what should be." This handbook reviews four such processes or models for…
Descriptors: Administrator Guides, Educational Assessment, Educational Needs, Educational Objectives
Ellett, Chad; And Others – CCBC Notebook, 1974
Two of the tasks of the Results Oriented Management in Education (ROME) Project are the identification of competencies of the principalship from the professional literature and the classification of these competencies by functional areas of responsibility. Three considerations became criteria in classifying existing competency statements to fit…
Descriptors: Administrator Evaluation, Administrator Qualifications, Administrator Responsibility, Classification
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