Discusses various ways in which objective and subjective cultural traits affect generation, presentation, transfer, and use of information in different societies. The cultural dimension of information rediscovered, generation of information as cultural phenomenon, information products as cultural products, and information needs, use, and…

The purpose of this paper is to present a model for systematic evaluation of school psychological reports that may prove useful in providing administrators, teachers, and psychologists with information on the efficacy of the reporting of student assessment methods used in the district. (BW)

Defines (a) the role that a management information system (MIS) should play in directing processes of planned change and (b) the types of information which the MIS must gather through various feedback loops if systematic as opposed to crisis oriented change is to take place. (Author)

Identifies weaknesses in the traditional political communication research model, suggests an alternative approach and then uses key concepts from both positions to analyze data from the 1972 Presidential campaign. (MH)

This study estimated the number of people searching the ERIC database each day. The Educational Resources Information Center (ERIC) is a national information system designed to provide ready access to an extensive body of education-related literature. Federal funds traditionally have paid for the development of the database, but not the…

This paper discusses the following four changes in how we use sources of information or representations of knowledge: (1) from tangible to intangible media--how sources of information and representations of knowledge are manifested or packaged on the Internet; (2) from books and journals to services and databases--how such knowledge packages are…

The work of school principals has become increasingly more complex and demanding. To prepare principals who can meet these challenges, the National Policy Board for Educational Administration (NPBEA) created a training guide, "Principals for Our Changing Schools: Knowledge and Skill Base" (S. Thomson, 1993). This publication reflects the belief…

This article describes the background, purpose, and organization of the ERIC Clearinghouse in Career Education, an information processing center. (KP)

Information transfer among scientists can be regarded as analoguous to a complex rate process highly dependent on the characteristics of the information forms. A general model is presented and an attempt made to quantify certain pathways. (25 references) (Author)

Pollution of natural resources such as information is the result of inefficient use of those resources and misplacement of those resources after use. Information workers must make judgements or assign priorities to information to ensure its use to serve the cause of a humane rationality. (1 reference) (Author)

An important factor to be considered in applying clustering techniques to information storage and retrieval problems is the use to be made of the resultant groupings. An examination of cluster criteria differentiation as a function of purpose may be fruitful in the exploitation of clustering techniques. (12 references) (Author/KE)

The general finding is that task and socioemotional information flowed relatively freely across geopolitical boundaries within the three general geopolitical subsystems represented in the sample of theoretical high energy physicists. (29 references) (SJ)

The author presents a three phase flow model or consistency theory to show the role of education in modifying health behavior. (Author/BY)