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STEEVES, ROY W. – 1967
THE FIRST PART OF THIS PROGRESS REPORT ON FEDERALLY FUNDED ADULT BASIC EDUCATION IN CALIFORNIA INDICATES PROGRAM OBJECTIVES, COMPONENTS, AND APPROPRIATIONS. NEXT, PROGRAM EFFECTIVENESS DATA ARE TABULATED ACCORDING TO CUMULATIVE AND ACTIVE ENROLLMENTS, DROPOUTS, AND COMPLETERS, PARTICIPANT CHARACTERISTICS (SEX, AGE, ETHNIC GROUPS, EDUCATIONAL…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Dropouts, Age Groups, Cost Effectiveness
United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization, Paris (France). International Inst. for Educational Planning. – 1967
THIS VOLUME CONTAINS EIGHT STUDIES ON INSTRUCTIONAL MEDIA USE--TELEVISION IN NIGER AND COLOMBIA (IN-SCHOOL INSTRUCTION), CHICAGO (JUNIOR-COLLEGE-LEVEL EDUCATIONAL EXTENSION), PERU (EDUCATIONAL EXTENSION AND LITERACY), IVORY COAST (LITERACY), TELEVISION, FILM, AND PROGRAMED INSTRUCTION IN ALGIERS (TEACHER-TRAINING), CORRESPONDENCE COURSES AT THE…
Descriptors: Communications, Correspondence Study, Cost Effectiveness, Developing Nations
HIRSCH, WERNER Z. – 1966
IN THREE AREAS OF RESPONSIBILITY--POLICY CONSIDERATION, PROGRAM FORMULATION, AND PROGRAM ADMINISTRATION--EDUCATIONAL PLANNERS ARE RELATIVELY UNPREPARED TO MAKE DECISIONS AFFECTING URBAN EDUCATION IN BOTH THE IMMEDIATE AND THE DISTANT FUTURE. THESE THREE FUNDAMENTAL RESPONSIBILITIES INVOLVE IDENTIFYING EDUCATIONAL OBJECTIVES, OPPORTUNITIES, AND…
Descriptors: City Government, Computer Assisted Instruction, Cost Effectiveness, Disadvantaged
General Learning Corp., Washington, DC. – 1968
The feasibility of using a centralized data processing facility to sever a large group of secondary schools and the capabilities of two alternative systems were investigated. The population to be served included 100,000 students in grades 9-14 attending 50 schools in an area having a hundred mile radius. Service requirements were defined to…
Descriptors: Budgeting, Centralization, Computers, Cost Effectiveness
Pinnell, Charles; Wacholder, Michael – 1968
This volume outlines a system for effective planning in higher education. The system integrates management and program planning, physical plant planning, and financial planning into a single process designed to support institutional management and decision making at all administrative levels. Because successful planning is a process, procedures…
Descriptors: Administrative Organization, Administrator Role, Budgeting, Campus Planning
Mangum, Garth L. – 1967
As a part of a larger project under grant from the Ford Foundation to evaluate federal manpower policies and programs, this evaluation of the training efforts under Title II of the Manpower Development and Training Act (MDTA) made use of data provided by the Departments of Labor and Health, Education, and Welfare. By the end of fiscal 1967, 1.2…
Descriptors: Apprenticeships, Cost Effectiveness, Disadvantaged, Employment Programs
Barkin, David; Hettich, Walter – 1968
This study analyzes interstate redistribution of Federal tax money under Title One of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965. First, the consistency of the criteria used to distribute funds is studied to see if people of similar financial positions are treated "qually. Results show that when compared with an alternative--the…
Descriptors: Cost Effectiveness, Economic Research, Economically Disadvantaged, Educational Finance
Hayes, Robert B. – 1977
Summarized are findings and reported in tables are data from the 1975-76 evaluation of Pennsylvania's special education services for 2,308 trainable and educable mentally retarded, physically handicapped, brain injured, and socially and emotionally disturbed elementary and secondary students. It is explained that measures of student progress…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Cost Effectiveness, Emotional Disturbances, Exceptional Child Research
Talley, M. Gary – 1977
Data compiled from previously published reports are used to assess values in postsecondary education. Five criteria are discussed: (1) postsecondary education should improve the graduates' work opportunities; (2) postsecondary education should have effective holding power; (3) postsecondary education should be relevant to students' needs; (4)…
Descriptors: Accountability, Bibliographies, Career Opportunities, College Role
Richardson, Richard C., Jr.; Schultz, Raymond E. – 1977
The document examines the post-secondary educational needs in Coconino County, Arizona and alternative methods for meeting them. Section One discusses community colleges in general and those in Arizona in particular. Section Two presents information on Coconino County, the largest and wealthiest county in the state and one with a population…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Community Colleges, Community Surveys, Cost Effectiveness
Virginia Beach City Public Schools, VA. – 1973
The School Board of Virginia Beach has conducted a two-year pilot program focusing on elementary school students who attend school 45 days and break 15 days year round. Four principal questions were proposed and researched by various independent agencies: (1) What effect does the 45-15 cycled-attendance year-round operation have on pupil…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Admission (School), Age, Comparative Analysis
Education Turnkey Systems, Inc., Washington, DC. – 1975
This summary of the 1973-74 Michigan Cost-Effectiveness Study describes the results of an exploratory inquiry into compensatory education reading programs in forty-eight Michigan schools. The study is said to have as its purpose the development and implementation of evaluation techniques to determine what educational practices bring about changes…
Descriptors: Accountability, Compensatory Education, Cost Effectiveness, Costs
Alfaro, Edward; And Others – 1974
The purpose of the project was to develop a formal needs assessment system for occupational education in the North Orange County Community College District and the Rancho Santiago Community College District. A brief summary of the purpose and scope of the project focuses on the need for an effective manpower information system, for…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Cost Effectiveness, Educational Needs, Educational Research
Sullivan, Daniel John – 1975
Business and management study programs are making increasing but still limited use of computer-assisted instruction (CAI) as an instructional tool. The cost of course development and design for business and management instruction is high, but declining hardware costs and increasing use will lower per student hour costs. CAI is now used primarily…
Descriptors: Administrator Education, Business Education, Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Oriented Programs
Children's Foundation, Washington, DC. – 1975
This assessment of food service needs in children's residential institutions is based on data gathered from visits to more than 350 children's institutions in 20 states and the District of Columbia and from nearly 1,200 responses to a questionnaire sent to every residential institution in every state. Findings indicate that children in orphanges,…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Budgeting, Child Care, Children
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