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Direct linkDustin M. Grote; Amy J. Richardson; Walter C. Lee; David B. Knight; Kaylynn Hill; Hannah Glisson; Bevlee A. Watford – Community College Review, 2024
Objective: Transfer student capital (TSC) helps community college students realize the potential for the transfer pathway to serve as a lower-cost option to a bachelor's degree. However, students' accrual of TSC depends on the quality and quantity of information networks and infrastructure; information asymmetry in these networks can impede…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Stakeholders, Engineering Education, Transfer Policy
Adamich, Tom – Knowledge Quest, 2013
Where do school librarians go to find out the latest on how the Dewey Decimal Classification (DDC) system is being used (and will be used) in the 21st-century virtual-knowledge world? The answer is two great websites containing: (1) the most current information on both Dewey and linked data at <http://dewey.info>; (2) Dewey here-and-now…
Descriptors: School Libraries, Classification, Information Sources, Electronic Publishing
Download full textRorison, Jamey; Voight, Mamie – Institute for Higher Education Policy, 2015
Students, policymakers and institutions all need to have high quality data about how today's students access and pay for higher education--and what contributes to their success. But the data that are available now are woefully inadequate. We need to improve the national postsecondary data infrastructure The report thoroughly explores seven options…
Descriptors: Postsecondary Education, Data, Database Management Systems, Information Management
Goertz, Margaret E.; Barnes, Carol; Massell, Diane; Fink, Ryan; Francis, Anthony Tuf – Consortium for Policy Research in Education, 2013
Over the last 20 years, state education agencies (SEAs) have been given considerably more responsibilities for directing and guiding the improvement of low-performing schools. At the same time, federal policies strongly pressed SEAs to use research to design these supports. Very few studies have explored the SEA as an organization, or its role in…
Descriptors: State Departments of Education, Educational Improvement, Research Utilization, Information Seeking
Olatokun, Wole Michael; Ajagbe, Enitan – Journal of Librarianship and Information Science, 2010
This survey-based study examined the information-seeking behaviour of traditional medical practitioners using Taylor's information use model. Respondents comprised all 160 traditional medical practitioners that treat sickle cell anaemia. Data were collected using an interviewer-administered, structured questionnaire. Frequency and percentage…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Information Seeking, Information Sources, Indigenous Knowledge
Krolak, Lisa – UNESCO Institute for Lifelong Learning, 2011
ALADIN, the Adult Learning Documentation and Information Network, is a well-developed, well-defined and lasting follow-up initiative of CONFINTEA V (Fifth International Conference on Adult Education), which was held in 1997. This global network was brought to life by UIL and the efforts of many adult learning documentation and information centres.…
Descriptors: Directories, Group Membership, Adult Learning, Documentation
Mullin, Christopher M.; Lebesch, Anna – American Association of Community Colleges (NJ1), 2010
The need for better data on the performance of higher education has become a major focus of education policymakers, and this has been reflected in federal legislation. Community colleges are appropriately held accountable for the workforce outcomes of their students, but the data that are gathered to evaluate those outcomes must reflect the…
Descriptors: Federal Legislation, Program Descriptions, Content Analysis, Education Work Relationship
Woods, Millicent – Community College Journal of Research and Practice, 2007
Online Student Service provides all Houston Community College (HCC) students and its surrounding community access to college information 24/7. Queries may be made regarding the admissions process, financial aid, testing, veterans' affairs, international admission, tuition costs, and programs and courses offered at each HCC location. Also available…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Online Systems, Information Sources, Student Personnel Services
Ramaswami, Rama – T.H.E. Journal, 2008
The Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA) does not mince words when describing the looming data storage problem. In its 2007 report, "Solving the Coming Archive Crisis--the 100-Year Dilemma," the trade group asserts that the volume of disparate digital information sources being kept online for long-term preservation is overwhelming and…
Descriptors: Preservation, Information Sources, State Agencies, Databases
Abouserie, Hossam M. R. – Online Submission, 2008
The purpose of this study was to explore and investigate the ways faculty at The School of Information Studies at Syracuse University use Networked Information Sources and Services to support their service tasks. Library and Information Sciences faculty were chosen as the population for this study. The study aimed to answer the following…
Descriptors: Questionnaires, Information Sources, College Faculty, Technology Uses in Education
Richardson, Will; Mancabelli, Rob – Education Digest: Essential Readings Condensed for Quick Review, 2007
This article discusses a group of new technologies--blogs, wikis, podcasts, social bookmarking, online photo galleries, and RSS (Real Simple Syndication)--collectively referred to as the Read/Write web. These tools allow users to easily create and publish online content, and are beginning to have a profound impact on curriculum, classroom…
Descriptors: Internet, Technology Uses in Education, Computer Mediated Communication, Credibility
Abouserie, Hossam Eldin Mohamed Refaat – Online Submission, 2007
The purpose of this study was to explore and investigate the ways faculty at the Graduate School of Library and Information Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign use Networked Information Sources and Services to support their research task. Library and Information Sciences faculty at the University of Illinois were chosen as…
Descriptors: Information Science Education, Search Engines, Questionnaires, Directories
