Designed to provide managers with a basic introduction to the planning components and procedures involved in planning for library automation, the overview provided here offers guidelines for eight documents that may be produced as part of such a study: (1) Automation Project Long Range Plan (60 Month Plan), an executive summary document providing…

To ensure that resource assignments may be appropriately allocated on a sound basis, this study was designed to provide the Arizona research coordinating unit of career and vocational education with a prioritized list of vocational education research needs. Representatives from all levels of vocational education in Arizona were assembled to…

This paper, based on a doctoral dissertation, focuses on spending inequalities within a single large city school district. The allocation/expenditure patterns of the 32 New York City "decentralized" units are compared for fiscal year 1976. Significant resource disparities were found among the community districts. These appeared to be…

The major dilemma in educational planning today is not an inability to analyze nor a lack of cost analysis data but an inability to use this data for decision making. (Author/KE)

Suggests a model that would be the vehicle for the analysis, development, implementation, and revision of any allocation procedure designated as a scheme for the distribution of scarce fiscal resources to support educational programs. (Author)

The geographic study of population changes, disparities in per capita resource consumption, and disruptions of resource production or flow are useful explanations of contemporary world crises. (Author/DE)

This paper considers some of the problems in implementing a cost-effectiveness analysis in training and education, and provides a specific example of an analysis that partially meets the cost-effectiveness analysis requirements. A computer-based study management system (SMS), which was implemented on a limited basis, was evaluated in the context…

This paper is a critique of "The Changing Politics of Education: Prospects for the 1980's" edited by Edith K. Mosher and Jennings L. Wagoner, Jr. The author contends that the themes of this "neo-conservative" volume are that (1) resources for schools are dwindling and the future of education will be bleak, and (2) political…

In this appendix to the study of subcounty allocation of Title I of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, state by state profiles of subcounty allocation are provided. The allocation formula and procedures used by each state for fiscal year 1977 are explained. Other data for each state, such as number of school districts and counties which…

Based on ten years of experience in curriculum research and development, the Northwest Regional Educational Laboratory supports the following principles concerning policy issues in curriculum development: (1) state and local policy makers and practitioners should make decisions about needed curriculum development, and the same persons should make…

Ideas of optimizing specific objectives were applied to the problem of allocating computer assisted instruction (CAI) time among students in an elementary school. Then, using computer simulation methodology, it was found that simply increasing the total amount of CAI time used could probably improve overall student progress more than any practical…

This review and synthesis of research focuses on studies of cost-effectiveness of vocational education. This paper represents an overview of the state of the art and includes (1) a review of the current conceptual and empirical problems of conducting a cost-efficiency or cost-effectiveness study of vocational education; (2) a review of the major…

This book offers an independent analysis of the New York City education budget for 1981 by the Educational Priorities Panel (EPP). It represents an alternative to the mayor's budget, which calls for $89 million in cuts, and the board of education budget. The first two chapters contain background information on the EPP and an explanation of the…

A PROGRAM BUDGET IS A POLICY AND PLANNING DOCUMENT WHOSE GOAL IS TO DEFINE PROGRAM ELEMENTS AT AS HIGH A LEVEL OF AGGREGATION AS POSSIBLE WHILE REMAINING CONSISTENT WITH A DESIRABLE LEVEL OF HOMOGENEITY. THERE ARE THREE MAJOR PHASES OF PROGRAM BUDGETING--PLANNING, PROGRAMING, AND BUDGETING. DISCUSSIONS OF A UNIVERSITY BUDGET, DECISION MATRICES IN…