Solving the problem of equipability" is a big part of the communication technologist's job. (Author)

The American College of Life Underwriters will open an adult learning laboratory in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania in 1972, which will serve as an experimental continuing education center for insurance personnel, and provide a means of assessing cost effectiveness of various learning systems. (MF)

Discusses the relationships of educational objectives and societal aims to the problems and perspectives in assessing the costs, benefits, and effectiveness of educational technology, which is seen as a systems approach to instruction, not merely educational media. (AL)

Presented at the New and Related Services division session of the American Vocational Association 1971 annual meeting. (MU)

The economic efficiency of public school districts was explored by utilization of the concept of economies and diseconomies of scale. An optimum size relative to costs was discovered by analyzing the data with curvilinear least squares regression and also with the differential calculus. (Author)

An evaluation of the Information Dynamics Corporation Retrieval System in an academic library, describing the specification of the machine and the various reader printers tested at Mills Memorial Library, McMaster University. (Author)

This article explores the feasibility of rational planning, using as evidence the regional planning experience of the Appalachian program. (Author)

"The nation's largest CAI operation in a public school system concluded its first full year of operation in June, 1969. The results indicate a very definite success for education's most closely watched use of technology. Three major criteria for success of such a project are 1) acceptance of CAI by the schools and their pupils, 2) per pupil costs…

Detailed method for calculating the effectiveness of alternative curriculum materials by a breakdown and analysis of their components. (KJ)