Three Approaches to Educational Resource Allocation. [Report No.: WP-6904

Autor/in	Harman, W. G.
Institution	Toronto Univ. (Ontario). Inst. for Policy Analysis.
Titel	Three Approaches to Educational Resource Allocation. [Report No.: WP-6904
Quelle	(1968), (40 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Monographie
Schlagwörter	Cost Effectiveness; Decision Making; Educational Demand; Educational Economics; Educational Objectives; Educational Planning; Educational Resources; Labor Force Development; Labor Needs; Resource Allocation; Systems Analysis + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Kosten-Nutzen-Analyse; Kosten-Nutzen-Denken; Decision-making; Entscheidungsfindung; Bildungsanforderung; Bildungsnachfrage; Bildungsökonomie; Educational objective; Bildungsziel; Erziehungsziel; Bildungsplanung; Bildungsmittel; Arbeitskräftebestand; Labour needs; Arbeitskräftebedarf; Ressourcenallokation; System analysis; Systemanalyse
Abstract	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 provides mere approximations for medium-and shortrun goals. The cost-benefit approach, which will be most utilized in the future, attempts to insure either maximization of some objective function, or minimization of resources used to achieve a certain goal. Although sometimes inaccurate, ratios are essential to this approach. These three approaches will be used until replaced by more reliable tools, but in the final analysis the decision-making function for educational resource allocation will remain political. (Author/LLR)
Anmerkungen	Institute for the Quantitative Analysis of Social and Economic Policy, University of Toronto, 150 St. George Street, Toronto 5, Canada ($1.00)
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2004/1/01