The report presents a strategy developed by an outside research group for the manpower administration which would: (1) identify and organize the questions facing the U.S. Employment Service (ES), (2) set priorities among the questions, and (3) outline alternative approaches for answering the questions. The study was undertaken in order to clarify…

The report reviews the evolution of existing national programs for air traffic controller training, estimates the number of persons requiring developmental and supplementary training, examines present controller selection and training programs, investigates performance measurement methods, considers standardization and quality control, discusses…

A major challenge in higher education is to build evaluation models that first of all spell out various effectiveness measures and then related cost data. The Program Effectiveness and Related Costs (PERC) framework addresses this problem. The five components of PERC are outcomes, costs, students, learning programs, and faculty. An overview and…

The development of a methodological framework for planning, programming, and budgeting which is specific to graduate training and research activities at the Chalmers University of Technology in Sweden is described. This pilot project is regarded as a step towards developing and implementing a generalized approach to an output-oriented finance…

A procedure for the use of financial analysis in decision making about implementing cable television and securing all possible services is outlined. A six-stage decision making flow chart is provided; the six stages then explained and elaborated. The six stages are: define all realistic options; eliminate certain options because of lack of…

This evaluation report on the Teacher Corps is divided into three parts. The first part describes the past and present status of the organization, looking at a) origin and history, b) the 1974 amendments, c) current operations, d) staffing and financial data, e) scope, f) minority recruitment, and g) analysis of past evaluations. The second part…

Legislators are increasing their efforts to insure that appropriations are used prudently and productively. State systems of higher education have not escaped this scrutiny. To be effective, such legislative oversight depends upon clear articulation by state-supported activities of its goals and functions. Nevertheless, like other service…

This document presents the appendix to the final report on the Child and Family Resource Program (CFRP), a Head Start-affiliated program designed to promote community and family involvement in fostering optimum development of preschool children. (The final report was contained in a series of documents, which included program descriptions from each…

Three methods that can be used subsequent to a regression analysis to determine the relative effectiveness of schools are Dyer's Performance Indices, Scheffe's hyperbolic confidence bands, and Gafarian's linear confidence bands. These methods were applied to data from 54 hypothetical schools randomly generated from a multivariate normal…

Presented by the Department of Health, Education and Welfare are proposed rules regarding section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, which prohibits discrimination in federal programs on the basis of handicap. Detailed are costs, benefits, and inflationary impact of implementing provisions related to the following areas (with sample subtopics…

The study compared the driving histories, for the first six months and first two years following licensing, of drivers who had received two types of driver training in high school in 197l. The subjects were 1644 drivers who had been trained on multi-vehicle ranges and 1759 who had received the traditional "30 and 6" training (30 hours of classroom…

This is an introductory presentation of economic evaluation methods for assessing computer-assisted instruction (CAI). Six different costing techniques, including cost effectiveness, are reviewed. Cost effectiveness is then examined in terms of its usefulness for evaluating CAI. A simplified system for cost effectiveness evaluation is presented…

This book is part of a series of studies dealing with educational economics and the efficiency of various forms of education. This volume is concerned with the topic of nonformal education, particularly as it might be applied in developing nations that are still largely rural. The author does not attempt to develop a definitive economic analysis…

This document applies Dr. Mehar Aurora's method for conducting cost benefit studies to the Food Manufacturing Technology-Dairy and the Food Manufacturing Technology-Canning and Freezing programs offered by the Moraine Park Technical Institute. Costs to individual students enrolled in the programs include tuition, fees, housing, travel, books,…

Cost-income studies are designed to serve two functions in instructional program evaluation. First, they act as the indicator of the economic value of a program. This economic value in conjunction with the other educational values needed in program evaluation allow for the most realistic appraisal of program worth. Second, if the studies show a…