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Benchmarking Usage Statistics in Collection Management Decisions for Serials
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Tucker, Cory – Journal of Electronic Resources Librarianship, 2009
Usage statistics are an important metric for making decisions on serials. Although the University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV) Libraries have been collecting usage statistics, the statistics had not frequently been used to make decisions and had not been included in collection development policy. After undergoing a collection assessment, the…
Descriptors: Benchmarking, Statistics, Library Services, Decision Making
Need for In-Service and Pre-Service Metric Education.
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Trent, John H. – 1975
Two questionnaires were given to a random sample of rural and urban elementary and secondary teachers as well as to mathematics methods students at the University of Nevada. The questionnaires were used to determine (1) the need for inservice and preservice metric education and (2) the present knowledge of the metric system of Nevada teachers. The…
Descriptors: Educational Needs, Elementary Secondary Education, Inservice Education, Mathematics Education
The Imminent Meeting with Metrics, II. A Report on a Survey of Nevada In-Service Teachers.
Trent, John; Lee, Ivan E. – Nevada Research Coordinating Unit Report, 1976
Teachers throughout the state of Nevada were surveyed concerning their formal preparation for teaching the metric system, concerns over teaching this system, and their knowledge of it. Results of the survey indicated that the majority of junior and senior high school teachers had studied the metric system, but the majority of elementary teachers…
Descriptors: Elementary School Teachers, Elementary Secondary Education, Mathematics Education, Measurement