The Office of Education convened the National Invitational Conference on Institutional Eligibility for the purpose of reviewing and analysing the issues surrounding eligibility for postsecondary educational institutions and programs. Some of the specific goals and purposes of the conference were to review and make recommendations concerning: (1)…

The methodology and design implemented for the Continuing Education/Community Service Projects of the Gerontology Center at Pennsylvania State University was the first attempt to train a diverse body of service providers in aging. Identification of the population for training was a matter of exclusion rather than inclusion, with the direct service…

A pilot program at Dundalk Community College (Maryland) has served a total of 109 physically handicapped, emotionally disturbed, or mentally retarded unemployed adults. The program consists of 15 weeks of guidance, counseling, testing, and training in basic job skills. Seventy-three percent of participating students have been subsequently employed…

Eighteen high school students of normal intelligence but with severely deficient language skills were given a special highly structured instructional program. Students progressed in vocabulary development, reading comprehension, and written and oral expression. Although the degree of progress was not sufficient to overcome deficits of two and…

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…

This paper demonstrates a process for investigating the economic and budgeting impact of educational innovations on the educational systems where they are introduced, based on the assumption that the money to finance educational innovations will have to be shifted from existing programs or other innovations. To illustrate the use of his analytical…

This report describes the APL (Accountable unit, Program, and line item) budget system, a computerized three-dimensional program budget system that has been implemented in the Cambridge (Massachusetts) School Department. Various chapters discuss the differences between traditional budgeting and program budgeting, present an overview of te APL…

Presented is a systematic approach for analyzing cost effectiveness of gifted and talented educational programs in terms of categorizing funds, prorating expenditures, designing a data collection form, determining cost effectiveness, and considering multiple variable implications. All costs are reported to be subsumed under six major categories:…

The Department of Labor is responsible for the Federal program to insure that contractors and subcontractors provide equal employment opportunity. Labor has delegated to 11 other agencies--including the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare (HEW)--the responsibility for performing compliance reviews of contractors' facilities and enforcing…

This publication is part of a series of reports that describes the results of the first year of a study of federally funded programs designed to introduce and spread innovative practices in public schools. Over several years, the study will examine innovative educational projects funded under four federal programs, including Title III of the…

The American penal system of placing criminal offenders in institutions has evolved from two major goals: (1) to punish offenders as an example to the rest of the community, and (2) to rehabilitate offenders into the community. Since the mid-1960's there has been a trend toward placing offenders in the community and away from isolating them in…

This two-part document explores the person-centered approach to performance-based teacher education as used by Project Change at the State University of New York College at Cortland. Part one discusses the program and its evaluation. Developed as part of a graduate program in early childhood education, the project is characterized by the following…

This paper presents suggestions for stimulating and improving the evaluation of teacher education centers in West Virginia. The suggestions stress the following points: a) evaluation procedures must be designed into center activities; b) careful thought must be given to the primary functions the center will execute; c) early judgmental decisions…

This study was designed to develop a methodology for evaluating the application of Instructional Technology (IT), conceived of in terms of a systems approach. An idealized model of IT was prepared based on a literature review of current models. The model was matched against basic nursing education programs purporting to use IT. A rating technique…