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Peer reviewedSandstrom, Pamela Effrein – Library Quarterly, 1994
Explores optimal foraging theory, derived from evolutionary ecology, for its potential to clarify and operationalize studies of scholarly communication. Metaphorical parallels between subsistence foragers and scholarly information seekers are drawn. Hypotheses to test the models are recommended. The place of ethnographic and bibliometric…
Descriptors: Behavior Theories, Bibliometrics, Communication (Thought Transfer), Ecology
Download full textClauset, Karl H., Jr.; Gaynor, Alan K. – 1982
To examine the problem of widening gaps in reading achievement between initially low-achieving children and other students as they move through elementary school, the authors first reviewed the literature on school effectiveness. Using a form of systems analysis called "system dynamics," they formulated a model and a set of hypotheses…
Descriptors: Educationally Disadvantaged, Elementary Education, Feedback, Hypothesis Testing
