This report provides a blueprint for reorganizing the governing structure of the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) and suggests new procedures of test development and test administration that will increase the interpretability of the assessment while at the same time making more staff and monetary resources available for research…

Study investigates disparities in per pupil resources at the school and classroom level rather than state and district. Data indicates that intra-school and inter-school (within a district) variations are as large as and in some cases larger than inter-district variation. (Author/AM)

The paper presents a model which has provided extensive or partial services for 147 persons with severe and complex disabilities. The model, "Supported Independence Using Individualized Dollars" (dollars allocated to a specific client), emerged when the Calgary Association for Independent Living, a small self-help group of disabled…

Specific skill training of the kind usually done on the job (and occasionally by trade schools) is considered in terms of the specific training of people to allow them to function effectively in their occupations. To define the potential role of media in this type of training, a review of major U.S. media-based training programs was conducted.…

This preliminary edition bibliography was designed as a working tool for librarians who require a representative collection of references on library budgeting, cost effectiveness, costing, fees, funding, insurance, prices, and financial management generally. It contains entries for 850 English language documents on economic aspects of information…

A budgetary process that serves a college in an era of expansion is likely to break down when the resource base is reduced and tough-minded decisions about priorities are required. This paper describes a resource allocation system that Gadsden State Junior College developed and tested over a two-year period to respond to fiscal contraction. Key…

This primer introduces the basics of Program Management and Budgeting (PMB) in an effort to demonstrate how PMB can benefit school systems. Short quotes from previous publications on the topic are paired with cartoons designed to clarify the purposes and workings of the program. The publication begins by defining PMB as an alternative financial…

A detailed resource management study was conducted at Tennessee State University, and resource management problems at other higher education institutions were identified through the exchange of data and studies. Resource requirements and management problems unique to black institutions were examined, as were the problems that arise from regional…

The major purpose of this report is to examine what the operating aid formula for the 1977-78 New York State school year could have been for the 347 save-harmless districts and the 236 limited aid districts if the 1977 legislature had not based apportionments on the previous year's aid. The study, conducted by a governor-appointed task force,…

The purpose of this report is to examine the need for integration of various basic skills resources. The report concentrates on the comparison of data in the areas of policy, program integration, attitude and planning, student achievement, and cost effectiveness of the categorically-funded programs. Federal and local studies on compensatory…

This technical report attempts to (1) provide information on issues and factors involved in analyzing extended degree costs; (2) provide brief explanation of how cost-related tools have been used in allocation of resources in similar degree programs; (3) indicate the types of information that are needed in making cost analysis of the extended…

The three main approaches to educational planning are social demand, manpower forecasting, and cost benefit. The social demand approach, useful only for reference purposes, attempts to forecast and assess consumer demand for education. Manpower forecasting tries to insure an output of the educational system to meet future economic demands, but…

It is the purpose of this paper to discuss cost-benefit analysis in terms of: (1) its logic and meaning, (2) some of the misconceptions which prevail concerning this method of evaluation, (3) some of the problems and limitations of this method, and (4) the conclusions of a study which attempted to determine whether or not there is pay-off from an…

To provide a framework for consideration and the elements of a basic fiscal design on which a formal fiscal study could be developed, this document narrates a simulated case study covering the major elements and issues inherent in the fiscal analysis of a rescheduled school year as they might appear in any school district. Subjects considered…

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…