Article evaluated the merits and faults of the news media and attempted to illustrate the ominously growing conflict between American society and its communication media. (Author/RK)

Through this feature the Journal seeks to provide brief accounts of significant current innovation and research in Australia. Topics covered included administration, curriculum and objectives, teaching and learning, measurement and research methodology, student development and personnel services, social context of education, and history.…

Describes an organization called Science and Technology Information Sources for Teachers (SATIS) which makes available to teachers abstracts from over 200 journals on a regular basis and abstracts of project work to enable the project to be used elsewhere. (GS)

The relationship between MA, IQ, complexity, and trial blocks on the processing performance of 20 nonretarded and retarded elementary school children was examined. (Author)

The vocational educational module of the Rhode Island Educational Management Information System is a data base that is an ongoing system that has been designed both to grow and to be modified to meet the needs of local and State administrators in the management of vocational education within Rhode Island. (Author)

A task of regional educational laboratories is to provide information to state and local education policy makers. The new focus on policy reflects a change in the labs' knowledge base and audience. The subsequent move into the political arena has created risks for the labs, which have responded to the new task in different ways. The nature of the…

This study examines the integration of heterogeneous bibliographic information resources from geographically distributed locations in an automated, unified, and controlled way using abstract data types called "classes" through the Message-Object Model defined in Smalltalk-80 software. The concept of achieving data consistency by…

The Library of Educational Documentation in Florence, Italy began work in 1980 on the establishment of an educational documentation system for Italy. Recognition of its role in this regard was accorded by the Regional Institutes for Educational Research, Innovation and Teacher Training (IRRSAE) and by the European Centre for Education (CEDE) in…

The purpose of this study is to apply an information-processing approach to risky decision judgments using the theory of information integration (Anderson, 1974; Anderson & Shanteau, 1970). (Author)

Part 1 of a continued article. (DD)

The Commission on Federal Paperwork was charged by Congress and the President with the task of making recommendations to eliminate needless paperwork while assuring that the federal government has the information necessary to meet the mandate of law and operate effectively. The 36 reports of the commission (summarized in the appendixes) examined…

This article describes a computer program, or package, that has been designed to allow a novice computer user to analyze natural language text by computer. The program can produce collocations, concordances, and word lists. The article also describes the package control language, which is designed to be easily used. Word extraction, word…

Two contrasting views of the form and structure of knowledge are discussed -- an audiovisual model vs a computer tape library. The importance of two distinct psychological systems to represent language and knowledge of the world is stressed. (AM)