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Kim, Joyce S. – 1978
Superintendents from 155 school districts in Pennsylvania were surveyed regarding their participation in Pennsylvania's 1976 Educational Quality Assessment (EQA). Ten state goals for quality public school education were assessed in grades 5, 8, and 11, as part of the EQA. Questionnaire responses were returned by superintendents from 128 school…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Educational Assessment, Educational Quality, Elementary Secondary Education
Liesener, James W. – 1978
The primary objective of this project was the study of the utilization of nonprint media in the public schools of the State of Maryland in order to determine current patterns and identify developing trends in the use of media materials and equipment. Secondary objectives were to determine variations in patterns of use of media materials and…
Descriptors: Audiovisual Aids, Information Utilization, Learning Resources Centers, Library Research
Emrick, John A.; Peterson, Susan M. – 1978
Reviewing five large-scale investigations of educational dissemination and change, this report synthesizes and consolidates their findings and implications around an issue of common interest to policymakers, program administrators, and researchers: what can be learned from these studies about processes and procedures that facilitate knowledge…
Descriptors: Diffusion, Educational Change, Educational Improvement, Educational Research
United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization, Paris (France). – 1976
User training experiences in Asian countries, using the UNISIST guidelines for training users of scientific and technical information, are reported through summaries of discussions following the presentation of papers, as well as the texts of the papers. Participants, including users, user trainers, and information handlers, heard these papers:…
Descriptors: Developing Nations, Evaluation, Guidelines, Information Dissemination
Download full textCHALUPSKY, ALBERT B.; KOPF, THOMAS J. – 1967
THE PURPOSE OF THE STUDY WAS TO REVIEW AND SYNTHESIZE THE RESULTS OF RESEARCH ON JOB PERFORMANCE AIDS AND EXPLORE THEIR CURRENT AND POTENTIAL ON INDUSTRIAL MANPOWER UTILIZATION. JOB PERFORMANCE AIDS ARE AUXILIARY INFORMATION STORAGE DEVICES WHICH PRESENT JOB INSTRUCTIONS OR REFERENCE DATA FOR USE BY THE EMPLOYEE DURING THE COURSE OF HIS JOB…
Descriptors: Annotated Bibliographies, Audiovisual Aids, Educational Media, Electronics
GOOD, LEROY V.; KIEFFER, ROBERT DE – 1960
IN NOVEMBER 1959, REPRESENTATIVES OF 12 STATES IN THE ROCKY MOUNTAIN PLAINS REGION ASSEMBLED IN BOULDER, COLORADO, TO PARTICIPATED IN A 3-DAY RESEARCH SEMINAR ON TITLE VII OF THE NATIONAL DEFENSE EDUCATION ACT. (TITLE VII COVERS RESEARCH AND EXPERIMENTAL ACTIVITIES FOR MORE EFFECTIVE UTILIZATION OF TELEVISION, RADIO, MOTION PICTURES, AND RELATED…
Descriptors: Educational Legislation, Educational Research, Federal Legislation, Films
Botkin, James W. – 1980
Implications of the "Information Age" of telecommunications and microprocessing for global issues are examined. Presently, the Japanese, British, and French are leaders in the development of information software and in the creative fashioning of new institutional arrangements to use the new systems. In the West, the implications of an information…
Descriptors: Developed Nations, Developing Nations, Educational Policy, Futures (of Society)
Finkler, Deana; Leach, Marilyn – 1978
In order to evaluate the format and use of the instructor evaluation instrument at the University of Nebraska, Omaha, an urban commuter campus, 1,238 undergraduates answered a 31-item questionnaire. Results indicated that students' choices of classes were largely dictated by requirements of their major and by their work schedules. The six most…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Course Evaluation, Enrollment Influences, Higher Education
Kent, Allen; And Others – 1979
The findings of a study undertaken at the University of Pittsburgh in 1975 to determine the extent of materials use and the full cost of such use in the university library system are presented in this 272-page report. Intended to serve as a foundation for improved acquisitions policies, this report covers circulation and in-house use of…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Books, Information Utilization, Library Acquisition
Beuke, Vernon; Farrar, Steven – 1979
The state of the art in the implementation of education innovation is assessed in three parts: (1) the identification of promising theories, important issues, and proven implementation strategies with emphasis on practical implications; (2) a review of research directly related to the development and implementation of new occupational education…
Descriptors: Adoption (Ideas), Change Strategies, Diffusion, Educational Change
DOWNIE, CURRIE S.; HOSHOVSKY, ALEXANDER G. – 1967
AN OVERVIEW OF THE OPERATIONAL AND EXPERIMENTAL SYSTEMS ESTABLISHED FOR THE SELECTIVE DISSEMINATION OF SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNICAL INFORMATION (SDI) IS PRESENTED. AN ATTEMPT HAS ALSO BEEN MADE TO IDENTIFY THE TRENDS WHICH MAY SHAPE THE FUTURE DEVELOPMENT OF THE SELECTIVE DISSEMINATION PROCEDURES. THE REPORT IS BASED IN PART ON THE EXISTING SDI…
Descriptors: Automation, Costs, Diffusion, Documentation
Swanson, Rowena Weiss – 1968
The paper examines information systems from the viewpoint of implementations based on current knowledge and experience. It reviews studies that report on how information has been and can be communicated for its exploitation. It discusses various types of systems and schemes that have been developed to aid the information transfer process,…
Descriptors: Automation, Communication (Thought Transfer), Cost Effectiveness, Information Centers
Herlihy, John G.; Inkpen, Thomas – 1974
As part of an administrators' workshop, participants responded to a questionnaire dealing with knowledge and awareness of the new social studies. One year later a followup questionnaire assessed recent activities toward knowledge, awareness, and implementation. A comparison of results on the questionnaires for the extent of use of five national…
Descriptors: Administrator Education, Administrator Evaluation, Curriculum Development, Curriculum Evaluation
Caplan, Nathan; And Others – 1975
A preliminary review of findings and implications of social science research utilization among government officials is provided. The data come from face-to-face interviews of 204 persons at the upper levels of decision making in the executive branch of the federal government. Section one presents descriptive data on the diversity of the…
Descriptors: Decision Making, Federal Government, Information Utilization, Management Information Systems
Mink, Oscar G. – 1975
Rational decision making by leaders in higher education and similar institutions suffers from both a lack of relevant data and the failure to use data when it is available. The purpose of this paper is to describe a process which when applied seems to facilitate the rational decision making processes of an institution's leadership. The process…
Descriptors: Decision Making, Educational Diagnosis, Educational Planning, Higher Education
