THE PURPOSE OF THIS PAPER WAS TO EXAMINE THE DEGREE TO WHICH THE ERIC PROGRAM, AFTER TWO YEARS OF OPERATIONAL EXPERIENCE, WAS REACHING THE OBJECTIVES SET FORTH FOR IT AT ITS INCEPTION IN 1965. DATA FROM VARIOUS SOURCES INDICATE THAT ERIC HAS BEEN SUCCESSFUL IN ATTAINING ITS FOUR MAJOR OBJECTIVES--(1) TO MAKE SIGNIFICANT, BUT PREVIOUSLY UNAVAILABLE…

Designed to provide a systematic means of analyzing the whole process of planning, implementation, and evaluation, these guidelines (1) suggest how national policies on user training may be related to national information policies in general, (2) suggest lines of action for the achievement of a national policy on user training, and (3) give advice…

Teacher education reform legislation in Mississippi was put into effect in 1985, concurrent with the planning year of this project which developed a prototype for automated evaluation of teachers' performance. This automated system of information management was designed in response to requests for demographic program information from governing…

A "gatekeeper" is an individual within a communication system who, through a process of selection, restricts the flow of information to the receivers. To investigate certain demographic characteristics and opinions which influence county supervisors (gatekeepers) in the selection of publications for dissemination to vocational agriculture…