LARGE SCALE GUIDANCE INFORMATION SUPPORT SYSTEMS MAY MEET THE PROBLEMS POSED BY THE INFORMATION EXPLOSION AND CYBERNATION. ASSUMPTIONS ABOUT COUNSELING, THE ROLE OF THE COUNSELOR, THE CLIENT, DECISION-MAKING, VOCATION AND EMPLOYMENT, AND GUIDANCE INFORMATION SYSTEMS ARE REVIEWED. THESE ASSUMPTIONS PROVIDE THE RATIONALE FOR THE SUGGESTIONS MADE.…

INTERACTIVE COMPUTER SYSTEMS ESTABLISH A DIALOG BETWEEN THE MAN AND THE MACHINE. BY MEANS OF DISPLAYS, THE USER RECEIVES IMMEDIATE FEEDBACK OF THE RESULT OF HIS ACTIONS, AND HE IS ABLE TO MODIFY HIS DECISIONS IN ORDER TO OBTAIN A SYSTEM RESPONSE THAT IS MOST RELEVANT TO HIS NEEDS. BOLD (BIBLIOGRAPHIC ON-LINE DISPLAY) IS AN EXAMPLE OF A HIGHLY…

A CUMULATIVE EDITION, CONTAINING TWO "INFORMATION BRIEFS" AND THREE "NEWSLETTERS," OF THE 1ST YEAR'S PUBLICATIONS OF ERIC/CRIER IS PRESENTED. THE EDUCATION RESOURCES INFORMATION CENTER/CLEARINGHOUSE ON THE RETRIEVAL OF INFORMATION AND EVALUATION IN READING IS A JOINT PROJECT BETWEEN THE INTERNATIONAL READING ASSOCIATION AND…

DATA COLLECTED FROM 15 YEARS OF PSYCHOLOGICAL TESTING UNDER THE APTITUDES RESEARCH PROJECT IN THE DEPARTMENT OF PSYCHOLOGY, UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA, WERE MICROFILMED OR KEYPUNCHED AND MADE AVAILABLE TO EDUCATORS, PSYCHOLOGISTS, AND GRADUATE STUDENT RESEARCHERS. EACH TEST HAD BEEN ADMINISTERED TO ABOUT 600 EXAMINEES. STUDENT HAND-WRITTEN…

The EUDISED project, which was started in 1968, is a computer-based network of national agencies dealing with the main fields of educational information. Listed in this bulletin for 1976 are on-going and completed projects in educational research and development reported from Austria, Finland, France, Federal Republic of Germany, Norway, Spain,…

The extent to which evaluation research and psychology share some common objectives, methods and aims for validity is examined. The conventional dichotomy drawn between the two disciplines is seen as spurious and misleading to scholars and practitioners in each area. To demonstrate the proposed synergy between the two disciplines, an integrative…

This report describes the development and operation of BARDS, the Bucknell Automated Retrieval and Display System, an online bibliographic access system for a selected section of the collection at the Ellen Clarke Bertrand Library. This system was used by the Bucknell University community from June 1974 through January 1975; further development…

THE NATURE OF A CONCEPT WAS EXPLICATED IN TERMS OF FOUR CHARACTERISTICS--DEFINABILITY, STRUCTURE, PSYCHOLOGICAL MEANINGFULNESS AND UTILITY. A CONCEPT LEARNING STRATEGY WAS SEEN TO BE COMPRISED OF THREE SETS OF COGNITIVE PROCESSES--(1) ANALYZING SITUATION, (2) SECURING INFORMATION, AND (3) PROCESSING INFORMATION. A SERIES OF 19 CONTROLLED…

This is a progress report on a project attempting to design a system of compacting text for storage appropriate to disc oriented demand searching. After noting a number of previously designed methods of compression, it offers a tentative solution which couples a dictionary of most frequent character-strings with a set of variable-length codes. The…

To determine the effect of format on the communication of information and the range of qualitative reaction, data was presented by bar graphs, data tables and natural language text to 24 staff members of the Southwest Regional Laboratory. No difference in acquisition of information among the staff members was shown. Subjects preferred data tables,…

A design for network control software for a computer network is described in which some nodes are linked by a communications satellite channel. It is assumed that the network has an ARPANET-like configuration; that is, that specialized processors at each node are responsible for message switching and network control. The purpose of the control…

The computer language FOL is intended to facilitate the implementation of file organizations for information storage and retrieval systems. In many information storage and retrieval applications the designer, initially, does not know how best to organize a data base for efficient retrieval and ease of updating and modifying. It is felt that FOL…

The chemists' information needs are for current awareness, selective dissemination, and retrospective search services, of research, development, engineering, production, and marketing information located internally or externally, and contained in journals, patents, theses, reports, data files, information services, and from people. This paper is…

This research report, applying an interdependency approach in an input-output framework to school district budgeting, presents a model aimed at the district management level. The data cover the 1967 operating budget of the Centralia, California, School District of approximately 3.9 million population. Three tables with accompanying textual…

This book discusses the relatively new development of interactive communication or dialog between men and computers. In this mutual exchange of information between two systems, each enjoys some independence of action, and the demand for improved information systems would be alleviated if effective communication between man and machine were…