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Gamboa, Luis Fernando; Waltenberg, Fábio D. – Educational Assessment, 2015
Measuring the distance between countries and the goal of equality of opportunity in education has been the focus of recent contributions in the economic literature, which have concentrated either on intergroup gaps in access to a given level of studies or on intergroup gaps in educational achievement. We argue that both aspects are important and…
Descriptors: Equal Education, Educational Opportunities, Comparative Education, Achievement Gap
International Federation of Library Associations, The Hague (Netherlands). – 1987
The first of two papers in this document is a report describing the work of the International Federation of Library Association's (IFLA) first professional board functioning under the Chicago rule changes of 1985. Topics include changes in the annual meeting structure; changes in the Medium Term Programme 1986-1991 (MTP); coordination with the…
Descriptors: Authors, Budgets, Conferences, Developed Nations
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Rasmussen, Radha – Australian Library Journal, 1987
Describes an investigation that assessed the effectiveness of Australian indexing and abstracting services in their bibliographic control of the literature of library and information science. Conclusions about the coverage of the literature are presented, and methods for improvement are suggested. (CLB)
Descriptors: Abstracts, Cataloging, Comparative Analysis, Developed Nations
International Federation of Library Associations, The Hague (Netherlands). – 1987
The five papers in this collection focus on computerized legal databases and their content: (1) "Disk and Dat: Recent Developments in Legal Databases and Emerging Information Technologies in the United States" (Howard Hood, United States); (2) "Online Databanken zum EG-Recht und ihr Angebot (Online Databases for European Community…
Descriptors: Accreditation (Institutions), Databases, Developed Nations, Foreign Countries