In this paper, the author develops a funding decision model that is appropriate to the evaluation of specific educational projects in an urban school system. He has attempted to develop a model that the central administration of a school district could use to compare projects and estimate which projects would be more likely to provide the most…

This paper includes three articles dealing with the application of science and technology to national development. In part, the first article attempts to answer the following questions: 1) what will be the costs and effects of communication technology in the coming decade; 2) how can the elements of communication systems be examined in terms of…

In this paper, the problem of choosing between education with the usual teacher-student interaction and television-assisted education is considered. The method used to select the alternative with minimum costs is presented, discussed, and applied to Botswana. (Pages 5 and 10 may reproduce poorly.) (Author)

Presented here in chronological order, are all the speeches given at the conference. Topics discussed include year-round use of schools as they relate to the needs of youth, basic designs for year-round education, major developments across the nation, projecting savings in classroom space or dollars through rescheduling the school year, year-round…

This booklet is the third in a three part series dealing with individual and societal expectations of education in Canada and the relationship between basic goals and the principles of financing. This document examines some of the economic factors basic to the design and planning of school financing. The authors first examine the growth of…

This paper describes a computer model that was developed for use to predict the effects of operating the universities in the province of Ontario on a year round basis. The apparent advantage in going to year round operation of universities is the saving in capital costs of buildings and other facilities. This can be achieved because the student…

Public two-year colleges, which enroll more than half of all Illinois undergraduates enrolled in the public sector are bearing the brunt of the shift from "mass" to "universal" higher education. But recent evidence raises serious questions about whether a dual track system in higher education is being established which…

The purpose of this study was to determine if the fiscal year 1972 funding of vocational and technical education by the Illinois Division of Vocational and Technical Education had changed from the inefficient funding patterns previously investigated for fiscal year 1971. The conclusions of the 1971 study were that the funding was not economically…

This report develops the sample design for evaluating five Federal manpower programs in terms of their effects upon trainees' incomes. The study involves a large 10-city sample of trainees in Job Corps, Neighborhood Youth Corps, Job Opportunities in the Business Sector, and Manpower and Development Act Institutional Training Programs (New Careers…

Three propositions which may suggest a strategy for meeting the measurement needs of education are presented: (1) Educational measurement possesses enough techniques and principles to permit tackling problems for their intrinsic importance, rather than for their convenience of fit to answers we already have; (2) Measurement needs are a subset of…

This report contains the proceedings of the conference, which focused on current thinking in personnel practices and some related problems. Four authors discuss the subject from different perspectives. Fred Enns outlines the state of affairs in personnel administration, identifies the primary functions of supervision, and provides data to indicate…

To develop effective occupational information programs in secondary schools, professional educators need reliable information on the relative costs and effectiveness of alternative methods of collecting and disseminating occupational information. The primary purposes of this study were to compare the relative effectiveness of two approaches used…

The document reports an audit review made of educational activities within the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) area offices in Anadarko and Muskogee, Oklahoma; Gallup, New Mexico; Juneau, Alaska; and Phonenix, Arizona. The field work, completed in 1967, was designed to (1) compile financial information to correlate with measures of output, (2)…

This report reviews the literature on cost-benefit analysis of retraining and discusses possible approaches to conducting such an analysis. Exemplary programs in Sweden and the United States are described. Despite the existence of externalities which preclude exact calculation of costs and benefits, the report concludes that retraining is…

The significance of a planning-programing-budgeting system for educational use lies in its ability to improve educational planning and cost effectiveness. As part of the Western New York PPBS project, a model for implementing PPBS in districts of fewer than 25,000 students was developed and tested. The completed model consists of three components:…