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PALMER, DALE H. – 1968
THIS PAPER DISCUSSES CERTAIN SITUATIONAL FACTORS CONSIDERED IMPORTANT TO THE TEACHER SELECTION PROCESS. THE DISCUSSION FOCUSES ON THREE MAJOR TOPICS--(1) IDENTIFICATION OF SITUATIONAL FACTORS RELEVANT TO TEACHER SELECTION, (2) SITUATIONAL FACTORS PRESENTED TO SUBJECTS IN AN EXPERIMENT CONDUCTED AT THE UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON, AND (3) POTENTIAL…
Descriptors: Classrooms, Community, Decision Making, Elementary Schools
Wallace, Everett M. – 1966
This paper discusses the necessity for scientific and technical personnel to maintain personal files and the limitations of centralized information services in meeting the diverse and changing information access requirements of these personnel. A prototype service is described that uses a computer to aid individuals organize, maintain and find…
Descriptors: Automation, Documentation, Indexes, Individual Needs
Federal Council for Science and Technology, Washington, DC. Committee on Scientific and Technical Information. – 1967
An ad hoc task group was constituted by the Committee on Scientific and Technical Information (COSATI) to: (1) delineate present and future issues issues for COSATI, (3) recommend additions or deletions in the present copyright law or in the pending revision now in Congress, and (4) recommend other short or long-term actions related to authorship…
Descriptors: Copyrights, Economic Progress, Information Needs, Information Systems
Massachusetts Inst. of Tech., Cambridge. Alfred P. Sloan School of Management. – 1968
This report contains a summary of research done at Alfred P. Sloan School of Management to study the information requirements associated with research and development activity under the headings: parallel projects, laboratory communication networks, characteristic costs of information channels, and interorganizational transfer of information.…
Descriptors: Communication (Thought Transfer), Information Needs, Information Utilization, Problem Solving
Minnesota Systems Research, Inc., Washington, DC. – 1976
The development of the Social Work Problem Classification is an early step in the provision of a uniform nomenclature for classifying the needs and problems of children and youth. There are many potential uses for a diagnostic classification and coding system. The two most important for the practitioner are: (1) problem identification and…
Descriptors: Caseworker Approach, Child Welfare, Children, Classification
National Inst. of Education (DHEW), Washington, DC. Dissemination and Resources Group. – 1976
The program purpose of the Dissemination and Resources Group of the National Institute of Education is to improve dissemination and use of knowledge for solving educational problems and to study, evaluate, and improve the capabilities of institutions and individuals to produce and use knowledge in improving education. The principal strategies for…
Descriptors: Administrative Agencies, Educational Development, Educational Research, Educational Resources
Bierschenk, Bernhard – 1977
Empirical information is presented on how researchers at Swedish institutes of education perceive, structure, and define educational and psychological problems. The collection, evaluation, and presentation of the results of the study were made on the basis of system theoretic assumptions in that the description and analysis of the initial phase of…
Descriptors: Educational Research, Educational Researchers, Environmental Influences, Information Utilization
Sanders, Keith R. – 1975
The twentieth century history of the academic study of political communication can be divided into three parts: the period between the World Wars, the period 1940-1965, and the period from 1965 to the present. In the first period, social scientists were greatly concerned that the democratic process might be subverted by propaganda; they were…
Descriptors: Audience Participation, Communication (Thought Transfer), Information Utilization, Media Research
Kaid, Lynda Lee – 1975
For decades research on mass media in political campaigns has yielded little evidence of direct, significant effects. Most survey research on elections found adequate explanations for voting decisions while excluding the impact of mass media. Although the increasing use of expensive television advertising campaigns is evidence of the confidence of…
Descriptors: Advertising, Broadcast Television, Communication (Thought Transfer), Information Utilization
Administration for Children, Youth, and Families (DHEW), Washington, DC. – 1978
This guide to the Early Periodic Screening, Diagnosis and Treatment (EPSDT) program is designed for use by health coordinators of Head Start programs. The guide defines the major components of the EPSDT program and outlines what a health coordinator should know and do to utilize the program for delivering services to Medicaid eligible children.…
Descriptors: Child Care, Clinical Diagnosis, Early Childhood Education, Health Personnel
Johnston, Judith E.; Dennison, Laura B. – 1978
Diversion projects in California (Los Angeles and Orange Counties) were monitored using client tracking, a simple and basic evaluation procedure. Client tracking was used to provide information about three points in the diversion process: referral to the project, service delivery, and the outcome of the diversion services. The data provided an…
Descriptors: Data Collection, Delinquency Prevention, Evaluation Methods, Information Utilization
Chandler, John S.; DeLutis, Thomas G. – 1976
An information system can be viewed as a symbiotic relation between the users of the system and the system's hardware, software, and data resources. Ideally, performance evaluation of these systems should be based on the achievement of user based criteria while concurrently minimizing resource costs. Current evaluation technologies concentrate on…
Descriptors: Evaluation, Evaluation Methods, Information Systems, Information Utilization
Byers, Maureen – 1975
The Information Exchange Procedures (IEP) developed by the National Center for Higher Education Management Systems (NCHEMS) are a set of standard definitions and procedures for collecting information about disciplines and student degree programs, outcomes of instructional programs, and general institutional characteristics. A fundamental purpose…
Descriptors: Costs, Curriculum, Databases, Decision Making
Hall, Mary – 1975
Improved dissemination and utilization of results from statewide assessment of student performance is critically needed. Prior research shows that less than one third of all states can provide evidence of using such data to make significant classes of decisions most frequently cited as a justification for the initiation of such programs. Yet the…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Accountability, Decision Making, Educational Assessment
Powell, Jon T. – California Western International Law Journal, 1975
The direct broadcast satellite is the latest in a series of developments in international communication techniques that have radically altered the role of information in the global society. Though now technically feasible, the direct broadcast satellite may never be widely employed because it challenges traditional international political concepts…
Descriptors: Communications Satellites, Copyrights, Foreign Policy, Global Approach
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