This account of the Educational Resources Information Center (ERIC) provides information on its background and origin, and traces the development of the system from initial planning in 1962 through mid-1979. Although this is essentially an overview of the growth of the system, some of the more complex aspects of the ERIC story are included in the…

The primary goal of the San Mateo Nutrition Activity Curriculum (SNAC) is to assist the development and improvement of healthful food habits among kindergarten through fifth grade students. The curriculum is based on five concepts: food choices and health; factors influencing food choices; food related careers; consumer competencies; and food…

Guidelines are presented for obtaining educational and social science research documents from several information retrieval, clearinghouse, and document delivery services. The guide is international in scope; services are from all parts of the world, and addresses are given for correspondence from within and outside the United States. Contained in…

The role teacher educators may play as participants in teacher centers is discussed. It is pointed out that teacher center programs and services would be enhanced if they were linked to the educational research community generally and the research on teaching community specifically. The suggestion is made that this linking function can be provided…

The items in this report represent the proceedings of a national conference that examined the diversity in the objectives and processes of instruction present in university-level programs in film/video education and sought to identify a common core of systematic procedures that could serve as a basis for defining the discipline of film/video. The…

The report discusses Project Hope, a program to prepare deaf high school students to enter into employment after graduation. The program, which can be adapted for use with many other types of severely handicapped high school students, offers some low-cost solutions to problems such as limited rehabilitation facility resources, legal restrictions,…

One of a series of guides to the teaching of writing at the elementary and secondary levels, this publication describes methods used in the evaluation of students' writing. Two brief introductory sections present quotations from educators that stress the value of positive evaluative comments. The third section describes procedures, advantages, and…

The purpose of this handbook is to help students, staff, and community patrons attain a reasonable degree of skill in using the Southeastern Community College Library effectively. The first section instructs the user on how to find information. A discussion of the card catalog and its use provides examples of catalog cards, reviews the…

Activities and accomplishments of the Institute for Research and Development in Occupational Education during 1978-1979 are discussed in this annual report, highlights of which include (1) production of a film dealing with sex equity; (2) development of a parallel Spanish version of the Career and Occupational Development test; (3) a second year…

Resources to develop techniques and strategies for infusing career education into educational programs for exceptional children are examined in this paper. The first section, in question-and-answer format, deals with questions teachers have about career education infusion: definitions of terms, the significance of career education for handicapped…

Designed as an aid for librarians and teachers in instructing elementary and secondary school students in library media skills, this handbook includes a detailed sequential list of such skills, as well as a list of books and media which concern the philosophy of teaching media skills or the materials used in developing skills programs. Arranged…

This guide for elementary teachers provides information on getting ideas into action, designing and implementing the right situation, ways in which to evaluate science process activities with students, and seven sample units. The units cover using the senses, magnets, forces, weather forecasting, classification of living things, and the physical…

This publication is a guide to films on energy conservation issues. The first section is a film source index which lists the organizations, their addresses and telephone numbers. The main body of the publication lists and describes films. This film listing is organized by topics to which the films relate. Topics include: (1) What is energy?; (2)…

New York State United Teachers (NYSUT) provides information and assistance to groups wishing to form teacher centers or already involved actively with a teacher center. NYSUT activities reported in this publication include the following: (1) publications; (2) workshops on proposal writing; (3) local and regional workshops; (4) locating resources…

Growing out of concern for lack of library school training for adult education work, this paper summarizes a literature review on librarianship for adult education, outlines topics of concern for a curriculum in adult education librarianship, and lists resources for use in developing such a curriculum. The literature review, focusing on the growth…