Since the early 1960's, new programs have been developed to prepare poor people for jobs in hospitals, schools, social agencies, and community centers offering human services. To ascertain the cost effectiveness of these programs the Career Options Research and Development (CORD) Project focused on the need for cost and benefit studies that…

This document is a report of investigative proceedings, findings, and recommendations reached by the Advisory Council on the status of occupational education in New York. The report centers primarily around 10 programmatic concerns of the Council in the areas of planning, budgeting, operation, and policy regulations regarding vocational teacher…

This manual represents a part of the work performed in the past two years in connection with Trenton's Project -- Building a Comprehensive Planning Capability with EPPBS -- funded through ESEA Title III. The "capability" refers to a set of concepts and procedures that will allow the Trenton Public Schools to raise the level of debate in…

This review was undertaken to organize and present the findings of educational production function research by educators and economists. A summary of these findings could be a valuable aid in the educational decision making process, especially to administrators working in local school districts. Research of this type concentrates on determining…

Educational communications centers, also known as instructional resource centers or various other titles, bring together many pieces of equipment and technology formerly kept in separate areas. When they are brought together, these pieces require so large a budget that the budget is often brought under close scrutiny. As a result, those in charge…

This report represents an effort to facilitate the advancement of significant innovations in vocational education in Missouri. In order for the schools to educate for living as well as for earning a living, a foundation must be laid to bring about changes; thus, this evaluation attempts to consider the needs of the people to be served and the…

This second part of a final report delineating policy issues and analytical problems in evaluating vocational education, includes three extensive appendixes and a wide range of tables. The appendixes include: (1) the methodology of cost-effectiveness analysis and a critique of the methodology of major studies, with illustrations; (2) selected…

This document records the results of two years of research and planning that preceded the start of construction of the new student housing. To assure that the new housing facilities provided a sympathetic living environment, research-oriented seminars were held in which students, faculty, and staff discussed various concepts of college housing.…

This report summarizes the results of a program initiated in July of 1967 that was based on the findings and recommendations of the First Phase Report, which was completed in June of 1967. Seventeen different school districts participated in systems programs, and 20 new schools and additions were completed during the 1968-69 school year.…

This study, based on research by UNESCO's International Institute for Educational Planning, deals with a prime contemporary problem, that of how to provide better education to more people in the face of tightening budgets, escalating costs, and educational conservatism. The authors contend that the imaginative use of cost analysis can be a…

A large scale investigation into the development and effectiveness of a collegiate level computer-assisted instruction (CAI) course in undergraduate physics is reported. The work, which began in 1966, involved a full commitment to investigate all phases of the development, execution, revision, and cost-effectiveness of a CAI physics course from a…

Originally conceived as a catalyst for educational reform, performance contracting by private firms will probably put itself out of business in the next few years because of its successes. School officials may continue to use it as a low risk, low cost vehicle for experimenting with innovative or untested learning programs, but its major value is…

Instructional System Technology in recent years has been characterized by an increase in individualized instruction and the modularization of the curriculum. In traditional systems the learners are forced to take blocks of instruction the size of entire courses and these are much too large. The courses can now be broken down into conceptual…

This report presents a strong argument and general guidelines for the development of a Management Information System (MIS) for the Community College System of Connecticut. Also included are ideas to assist state budgeting and finance officers in making a Planning, Programming, Budgeting System (PPBS) an effective operation in that state. Part I of…

Information Resource Centers (IRCs) were established to provide a means of informing the educational community about the Southwest Regional Laboratory for Educational Research and Development Kindergarten Program (KP) and of developing generalizable installation procedures for research-based instructional products. Centers were composed of…