This study will examine the feasibility of developing a student mobility tracking system that encompasses the entire post-secondary system in BC. Currently, the vast majority of the private post-secondary sector has no formal link with institutions in the public sector. As a consequence, little is known beyond anecdotal evidence about the…

Project RETAIN (Retention in Education Technical Assistance and Information Network) is a Florida project to assist school districts through identification and dissemination of effective practices that keep students with mild disabilities in school. One part of the project attempted to establish a consensus among experts in the fields of…

A practicum was conducted to determine the feasibility of developing an elderhostel program involving older Indian and Metis adults in Saskatchewan, Canada. A preprogram study of elderhostels and a literature review were conducted. Approximately 30 face-to-face interviews with both Indian and Metis persons in and around Regina, Saskatchewan, were…

This paper explores the feasibility of developing a single-user microcomputer-based testing system. Testing literature was surveyed to discover types of test items that might be used in the system and to compile a list of strategies that such a system might use. Potential users were surveyed. Several were interviewed, and a questionnaire was…

A convening process was used to study the feasibility of a career ladder program for public school teachers in the District of Columbia. Eight educators from outside the system met on July 13-15, 1987, to analyze problems in the current system concerning: (1) the need to compete for quality teachers; (2) making career opportunities available; (3)…

A two-phase study investigated the employment opportunities for visually impaired computer programers and the practicality of training them at a community/junior college. Activities during phase 1 included an employer survey to determine employment opportunities, a department chairperson survey, a blind programer survey, development of profiles…

A study was conducted in Alberta (Canada) to determine the feasibility of using mobile industrial education and home economics laboratories to provide on-site instructional facilities for junior high schools that do not have sufficient populations to warrant the construction of more permanent laboratories. Information was sought on the flexibility…

Recognizing the growth of educational support services for family day care throughout New York State and other parts of the country, a policy oriented evaluation was performed to analyze the feasibility of such a service being adopted and continued as an educational delivery system by communities throughout the nation. The evaluation used a…

Experience Based Career Education (EBCE) is a program which provides students with a comprehensive secondary education that exposes them to a cumulative series of planned, personalized learning experiences in a wide variety of life and work settings. To determine possible program implementation, the Far West Laboratory (FWL) has engaged a series…

A review of assessment and planning aids is presented to provide the local school district with a practical and a theoretical framework on which to base its planning for a feasibility study of a year-round school program. The first and most crucial decision that must be made is the determination that educational programing is the basis on which…

The literature on incentive early retirement for faculty members is reviewed, including the findings of studies that have assessed the effectiveness of such programs. In addition to describing different types of programs and the incentives offered, attention is directed to legal issues, costs and benefits, assessing whether a program is feasible,…

In November 1985, a survey was conducted at William Rainey Harper College (WRHC), in Illinois, to test the feasibility of establishing programs for medical record technicians, medical coders, and utilization analysts. The survey instrument was mailed to 1,232 hospitals, medical care facilities, nursing homes, physicians' and dentists' offices, and…

A collection of nine commissioned papers, one each from Scotland and South Africa and eight from Australia, address provisions for and problems with distance education for librarianship. Components and applications of directed private study in Scotland and the development, educational philosophy, methods, problems, and standards of correspondence…

In order to determine if occupationally-oriented curriculums in home economics should be developed at the post-secondary level in Oklahoma, three groups of people were interviewed: (1) managers of business establishments and supervisors of child care agencies, (2) administrators and instructors of home economics courses, and (3) students enrolled…

Investigating the feasibility of a human resources campus designed to locate all Williamsburg County (a rurally disadvantaged South Carolina county) health and social service agencies in one consolidated area, project objectives were to investigate: agency characteristics; ownership, management, and financing aspects of the campus concept;…