A brief overview of how computer assisted instruction came into wide use and its present cost effectiveness as an instructional tool. (HB)

A business firm specializes in remodeling obsolete classrooms and uses an electric power monitor to program reductions in nonessential power use. (Author/MLF)

Describes an elementary school that makes skillful use of earth berms to provide interesting interior and exterior spaces with unusual economies in building and operation; and a high school that has created an atmosphere of excitement through the involvement of students and teachers in interior planning. (Author/DN)

College Instittions have begun to use the dispersed campus, outreach and external degree programs, and new technology to meet the space needs of new programs and a widened constitutency. Explores the solution of relying on noncampus facilities and programs. (Author/DN)

A presentation of a linear planning model to be used in economics for education. (Author)

The University of Denver Libraries employed SCORE (Service Components Reliability and Efficiency), a cost analysis technique, to measure effectiveness and cost of reference activity. This report examines the results and the problems encountered in application of this methodology. A reference model, designed as a flow chart, was developed by…

This document presents supporting material for the argument that performance based (competency based) teacher education (PBTE) is more cost-effective, and rated higher by participating students, than a non-performance based teacher education program. The paper compares the System for Individually Guided Mastery Attainment (SIGMA) and traditional…

This paper contains a series of speeches given at the Sixth International Round Table for the Advancement of Counseling Conference and Seminar. The aim of the conference was to provide a forum for interdisciplinary sutdy of questions relating to guidance and counseling at school and university levels as well as in other areas representing…

Decision analysis is a quantitative method that permits the systematic evaluation of the costs or benefits accruing to courses of action that might be taken in a decision problem. It entails identification of the alternative choices involved, the assignment of values (costs/benefits) for possible outcomes, and the expression of the probability of…

This report examines the public's role in determining the dimensions of the public interest in the regulation of broadcast services. Chapter II describes some of the avenues open to citizens to influence the Federal Communication Commission, including: (1) direct contact between broadcasters and citizens, (2) citizen participation in the…

The report, an adaptation and condensation of the European Economic Community Commission's report, discusses the findings of linking wages to cost-of-living indexes in eight of its member countries (Denmark, Belgium, France, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, and the United Kingdom). (Author/BP)

Instructional technology is used at the Chicago Circle campus of the University of Illinois to produce better teaching at lower or at least the same cost, and for basic research in the use of the computer for direct instruction and creative interaction. (Author/MLF)

In the planning stage, the project manager's primary role is to see that the project is begun, planned, and developed in such a way that future problems in budget, design, or construction are minimized. (Author)