Elementary and secondary school curriculum development and implementation in Ontario is guided by pamphlets (curriculum guidelines) from the Ministry of Education. The diverse nature of these pamphlets caused the Ministry to initiate the design of instruments to determine the meaningfulness and effectiveness of the guidelines throughout the province. Consequently, Systems Research Group developed and conducted extensive sets of field tests of questionnaires, data analysis techniques, and reporting structures to enable the ministry to examine guideline distribution, comprehension, utility and impact. A 1973 data base was created from the mailing of 25,000 questionnaires. A corresponding Five Year Plan was designed to permit the ministry to evaluate changes in guideline implementation strategies by examining the recommended reporting structures or performing analyses of their own on the existing data. (Author)