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…

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,…

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…

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…

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…

British evulative studies in education have taken different approaches from those in America. Although there has been some interchange of ideas, the social context in the two countries is different, requiring different mechanisms for the initiation, implementation, and followup of educational evaluation. There are still lessons to be learned in…

The study was undertaken to identify the kinds of information that the Oklahoma public wants about vocational education. Two data collection methodologies were used, the Delphi Technique and task force procedure. Participants were 240 volunteers from a statewide master list of 653 persons selected as representative. After four meetings the task…

Presented is Volume 2 of a final report on a project to determine current practices and policies likely to result in maximized adoptive placements for mentally, emotionally, or physically handicapped children. Data on families that adopted handicapped children are analyzed, two methods for disseminating project findings (a placement workshop and a…

One facet of the information analysis and dissemination program of the Educational Resources Information Center (ERIC) includes newsletters issued by the ERIC clearinghouses. Seventeen of the 19 clearinghouses operational in 1969 published newsletters; all of the 1969 issues of these newsletters were examined and content analyzed. A great…

As a response to several specific economic analysis questions asked by the staff of Massachusetts' Management and Information System for Occupational Education (MISOE), this paper focuses on concepts of costs and benefits required for cost-effectiveness analysis, as well as the methodology of cost-effectiveness analysis. Useful as background…

This paper deals with systems concepts, particularly those related to management information systems (MIS) as exemplified by the Center for the Study of Evaluation (CSE) Formative Evaluation Kit. The concept of MIS is in numerous ways more flexible than might be imagined from a cursory reading of the business-management literature. An MIS does not…

A list of carefully selected readings on ways to organize the information flow within a company, this bibliography presents 68 annotated references to literature illustrating the problems of putting information across to industry and establishing information services within industrial firms. The publication is primarily aimed at the information…

The field review edition of the Information Exchanges Procedures Manual describes a set of meaningful measures, a structure for organizing the data, and standard procedures to collect, aggregate, and display the data for information exchange purposes. The IEP steering committee, task force, and NCHEMS staff recommended two types of information for…

Data were gathered by mail questionnaire from 230 of the 289 teacher educators and state supervisors in seven states to investigate factors influencing the utilization of information for problem solving in vocational and technical education. Data were treated through a description of the sample, the method of paired comparisons, analysis of…

The research activities of Project Intrex are directed toward the extension of man's intellectual reach by a new kind of control over access to information. Ways are sought to improve the efficiency of catalog search by utilization of interactive computing techniques, and to provide rapid access to full-text displays by utilizing microfilm storage…