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Fritz, Deborah A. – 1998
Machine-Readable Cataloging (MARC) is the dominant format for the bibliographic cataloging of all types of library materials. This source cross references "Anglo-American Cataloging Rules, 2nd ed., 1988 revision" (AACR2R), MARC tags/subfields, and interpretations for Library of Congress rules for each of the major media categories. This…
Descriptors: Audiotape Recordings, Bibliographic Records, Books, Cataloging
Smith, Martin A. – CAUSE/EFFECT, 1980
The integration of data processing and word processing is seen as a new frontier for Management Information Systems. A system developed by the University of Massachusetts for the admissions office is described. Online admissions system, data processing overview, word processing interface, and System/6 programing aspects are discussed. (Author/MLW)
Descriptors: Admission (School), Admissions Officers, Case Studies, Data Processing
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Brower, Aaron M. – Journal of the Freshman Year Experience & Students in Transition, 1997
Analyzes the sequence of decisions students make in their transition to college, and finds six distinct time periods in the formal process that students go through. This decision-making process can be described using information management strategies of "prototype-matching" and "striving-for-future-selves." Argues colleges can use this information…
Descriptors: College Freshmen, College Students, Decision Making, Higher Education
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Schmiede, Angela E. – Michigan Journal of Community Service Learning, 1995
Discusses use of focus groups as qualitative research methodology and as reflection tool in service learning. Three focus groups at Vanderbilt University (Tennessee) assessed cognitive outcomes of service-learning and encouraged students' reflection on their experience. Focus group data were triangulated with survey data to assess validity of…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Measurement, College Instruction
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Xu, Hong – Journal of Academic Librarianship, 1996
Presents results of a study on communication channels used by academic librarians in different job categories and organizational levels. A literature review of information processing and internal and interdepartmental library communication is included. Face-to-face and telephone communication dominated as choice of medium. Public service and…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Communication Research, Employment Level, Information Processing
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Brier, Soren – Journal of Documentation, 1996
Explains an interdisciplinary framework for library information science, especially information retrieval, which considers sociocultural context of search terms in a way that the cognitivist information processing paradigm does not. Limitations of cognitivist information processing conceptions are discussed, as well as the possible effects of the…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Context Effect, Cultural Context, Information Processing
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Linn, Marcia C. – Elementary School Journal, 1997
Gives historical account of research and practices associated with precollege science laboratories. Described three social contexts of research on science laboratories: separation, interaction, and partnership. Argues that more partnerships are needed to continue improvement to the science laboratory, suggesting that future partnerships will…
Descriptors: Elementary School Science, Elementary Secondary Education, Individual Development, Information Processing
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Boulton-Lewis, Gillian – Higher Education, 1994
Analysis of statements by 869 students and 21 faculty at Queensland University of Technology (Australia) concerning learning, using the SOLO (structure of observed learning outcomes) Taxonomy, identified key concepts in learning in eight categories: learning definitions; factors influencing learning; learning strategies; learning styles; aspects…
Descriptors: Classification, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Style, College Students
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Saccuzzo, Dennis P.; And Others – Intelligence, 1994
Eighty gifted and 80 nongifted African American, Latino, Filipino, and white elementary school students were evaluated through information processing tasks. There were large differences on all four tasks, two depending on speed of processing and two not dependent on speed, as a function of grade and gifted program membership. (SLD)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Black Students, Children, Cognitive Ability
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Dimitroff, Alexandra – Library and Information Science Research, 1992
A study investigated the relationship between the completeness of end users' mental models of an online system and their ability to use the system effectively. Although all of the study subjects were relatively successful, those with more complete mental models tended to have better search results than subjects with incomplete or poor mental…
Descriptors: Bibliographic Databases, College Libraries, Graduate Students, Higher Education
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Newton, Leonard – Education in Science, 1998
Offers some strategies for enabling science teachers to make better use of data-logging methods. These ideas are grounded in the belief that science teachers are expert lesson planners. Benefits gained for students using data-logging techniques are more likely to be secured through teachers re-interpreting their planning approaches in the new…
Descriptors: Computer Software, Computer Uses in Education, Data Collection, Foreign Countries
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Lelouche, Ruddy – European Journal of Engineering Education, 1998
Shows how education has successively benefited from traditional information processing through programmed instruction and computer-assisted instruction (CAI), artificial intelligence, intelligent CAI, intelligent tutoring systems, and hypermedia techniques. Contains 29 references. (DDR)
Descriptors: Artificial Intelligence, Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Uses in Education, Computers
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Thomas, Gross F. – Journal of Genetic Psychology, 2004
The author studied children's and young adult's perceptions of facial age and beliefs about the sociability, cognitive ability, and physical fitness of adult faces. From pairs of photographs of adult faces, participants (4-6 years old, 8-10 years old, 13-16 years old, and 19-23 years old) selected the one face that appeared younger, older, better…
Descriptors: Children, Young Adults, Visual Perception, Human Body
Bunderson, C. Victor; And Others – 1988
Educational measurement is undergoing a revolution due to the rapid dissemination of information-processing technology. The recent growth in computing resources and their widespread dissemination in daily life have brought about irreversible changes in educational measurement. Recent developments in computerized measurement are summarized by…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Adaptive Testing, Computer Assisted Testing, Educational Assessment
Shih, Yu-Fen; And Others – 1997
Transfer of learning is one of the major purposes of education. Theories and research have tried hard to answer questions such as: how does transfer occur? and how is transfer enhanced? Situated cognitive theory and research about anchored instruction together bring some positive findings. Anchored instruction provides the learner with a situated,…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Cognitive Processes, Communication (Thought Transfer), Foreign Countries
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