This document consists of three sections: a summary of the development of government budgeting, a discussion of the concepts and applicability of performance budgeting, and a critique of the techniques and usefulness of PPBS with a detailed analysis of its economic assumptions. Appendixes show that an optimum solution to the problem of allocations…

This paper examined in a critical fashion the existing applications of cost-effectiveness analysis in education, particularly the study of instructional effectiveness in the community college. Various schemes for measuring costs of instruction such as cost benefit analysis, cost-effectiveness analysis and planning programming budgeting systems…

The National Biomedical Communications Network has evolved both from a set of conceptual recommendations over the last twelve years and an accumulation of needs manifesting themselves in the requests of members of the medical community. With a short history of three years this Network and its developing structure have exhibited most of the…

To develop and evaluate methods and techniques for the utilization of the principles of behavior modification in the education of behaviorally disordered children in the public schools, eight boys (ages 7 1/2 to 10 1/2, IQ range 84 to 116) constituted an experimental special class group. Their program emphasized bringing under control deviant…

Once a computer system has been established, and the capabilities exist for the kind of data manipulation which could produce either a book catalog, with as many access points as seem desirable, or catalog cards if desired, the next question to be resolved is whether a book catalog is an economically feasible substitute for catalog cards. The…

To determine vocational program costs at the secondary and post-secondary levels so as to assist state and local administrators in obtaining financial support, three high school districts and one community college district from each of seven states were surveyed. Items for which data were collected included: (1) direct expenditures of vocational…

The paper describes benefit-cost analysis, reviews how benefit-cost analysis has been used to evaluate human investment as applied to mental retardation programs, and critiques the benefit-cost technique. The first part focuses on problems associated with the definition and measurement of benefits and costs, the rationale of discounting and the…

An investigation was made of the feasibility of Computer Assisted Instruction (CAI) for Navy technical training. The computer system used was the IBM 1500 system. Five CAI modules were developed which could replace 92 hours of the class curriculum. CAI provided very effective and efficient instruction. CAI students scored higher than…

A study investigated the relationship between avionics subsystem design characteristics and training time, training cost, and job performance. A list of design variables believed to affect training and job performance was established and supplemented with personnel variables, including aptitude test scores and the amount of training and…

The Program Classification Structure (PCS) has been widely disseminated throughout the higher education community to provide a consistent means of identifying and organizing the program elements of higher education institutions. This technical report identifies, describes, and categorizes quantitative indicators into 6 program measures groups that…

The hypothesis that junior college transfer students are not as efficient in completing their degree programs at Western Michigan University (WMU) as students beginning and completing their college education there, was investigated. Efficiency for individual students was defined by five variables: (1) years required to complete degree…

This brief contains a refinement and amplification of preliminary estimates of operating fund requirements of the provincially assisted universities of Ontario for 1970-71. Part B of the report contains quantitative descriptors of university operations including budgeted operating expenditures for 1969-70, faculty income unit ratios in 1969-70,…

The ability to develop lower unit cost instruction requires the ability to both determine the unit cost of current instruction and to predict with some degree of accuracy the unit cost of the proposed instruction. From the managerial viewpoint the cost of instruction can be determined by using basic design models which reflect the actual…

Benefit-cost analysis was used in this study to compare the relative value of rehabilitation for the culturally disadvantaged to that of the medically disabled. The Wood County Project, which was designed to demonstrate the potential benefits of extending services to all handicapped persons, was evaluated in terms of the impact on clients, the…

Good methods for assessing the comparative costs of various types of academic programs are badly needed. This report briefly describes a method for doing this used in 1970 at the University of South Florida. The method described has limitations, since the data are based on non-personnel costs only. A more useful analysis would be based on total…