In order to consider how medical education is financed guidelines have to be developed that accurately estimate the costs of the resources required for contemporary medical education. It is then necessary to estimate the cost of undergraduate medical education within the perspective of the total education and training of the physician and the…

This report summarizes the findings of one of fourteen panels that studied progress in space science applications and defined user needs potentially capable of being met by space-system applications. The study was requested by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and was conducted by the Space Applications Board. The panels…

Computer technology is discussed as a tool for facilitating the implementation of the mainstreaming process. Minimum conflict mainstreaming/merging (MCM) is defined as an approach which utilizes computer technology to circumvent such structural obstacles to mainstreaming as transportation scheduling, screening and assignment of students, testing,…

This paper describes the characteristics and circumstances defining nine decision cases in an effort to provide methodological assistance for practitioners. Each case is examined according to its objectives (single or multiple), resource level (limited or unlimited), time frame (a priori or evaluative), and the nature of desired decisions. In…

Course costs consist of direct costs (teaching salaries) added to indirect departmental and indirect college-wide costs. Course receipts are obtained by adding the state allocations per HEGIS discipline multiplied by the number of FTE generated by Student Semester Hours of enrollment in that discipline to a calculated portion of student tuition.…

A major objective of the final evaluation (third year, 1969-70) of the Grand Forks, N.D., ESEA Title III project was to test the effects of aides groups not intimately connected with teaching through survey of parents' opinions and attitudes of student teachers in classes where aides served. In addition to this, the cost utility study was expanded…

Managers' having to account for cost of information activities is here to stay. Budgeting is going to become more stringent and imaginative. Costs should not be equated with human values--psychological and subjective--which apparently many managers do, feeling that having to cost information activities is degrading. Some trends are: Buy products…

As part of the overall education plans for Fort Lincoln New Town (FLNT) an automated school cost model was developed. Chapter 1 overviews the FLNT model's features and sets its operational context, while chapter 2 discusses the model in detail. The appendices provide model inputs and cost calculations, names of approximately 500 inputs used in the…

The purpose of cost-benefit analysis is to provide a guide for rational resource allocation by assessing the future benefits of an investment against the costs incurred in the present. For educational planners, this type of analysis is made difficult by the noneconomic costs and benefits in education and also by the extensive time-lag that exists…

Instructional media systems might be of help in meeting the educational crisis of today, but it is difficult to find systems which reached the potential demonstrated in pilot efforts. Some of the more obvious reasons for the failures in educational technology are these: there is research but not development, equipment but no materials, a market…

This paper presents three arguments for maintaining the open-door policy in community colleges. One is the social demand argument. Since the Commission on Higher Education, appointed by President Truman in 1947, estimated that at least 49 per cent of the population had the mental ability to complete 14 years of schooling, various national…

Based on the premise that cost measurement for a library can be performed in the same manner as for an industrial organization, this paper presents a hypothetical cost determination problem of a small company which produces bricks. A summary of the five steps taken to develop the various cost figures are: (1) Assign all cost items to the…

This cost differential study was designed to use data collected by the Division of Vocational and Technical Education and the Illinois Junior College Board in an effort to analyze differential program costs of selected occupational curricula in six sample community colleges incurred in the fiscal year 1968-69. To be effective, a cost accounting…

This annotated and preliminary bibliography emphasizes applications of cost-effectiveness (C/E) and cost-benefit (C/B) analyses to problems in the civilian economy. The entries are organized so that the user may identify works in which these techniques are applied to problems in specific areas such as transportation, communication, and health. No…

Information on 288 participants who had been retrained between November 62 and April 1963, was collected by personal interviews and mailed questionnaires, and by earnings histories provided by the Social Security Administration, to discover the actual trends in average retraining benefits and to determine if this trend differed on characteristics…