The evaluator as purveyor of truth may be seen as one more lobbyist competing for politicians' attention. This article explains how evaluators can present their results forcefully in the political arena. Available from: Evaluation, 501 South Park Avenue, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55415. (CP)

Three different analyses have shown that the more information available in a nonverbal decoding task, the less efficiently younger subjects utilize the information relative to older ones. This differential effectiveness in the utilization of available information was discussed in terms of processing capacity, effort, and strategies for sampling a…

Discusses some of the international implications resulting from the emergence of a U.S. information-based economy. (MH)

Emphasizes present global trends characterized by patterns of widening inequities in the global distribution of wealth. Hypothesizes that recent developments in information technology and the effective transfer of such knowledge is likely to lead to more rapid development and more equitable global distribution of wealth. (MH)

A history of educators' concern with systematic production and utilization of educational knowledge (KPU) since the beginning of the century is presented. The influence of Paul Mort on the KPU tradition from the 1930's to the 1960's, and of Federal policies on educational research and dissemination since the 1960's is investigated. (Author/MJB)

Evaluators often assume that outcome studies assessing agency effectiveness should provide the most relevant data for decision makers who must form judgments about treatment in order to make policy, program, and clinical decisions. Yet evaluators have found that decision makers often fail to use results of evaluation studies. (Author/CTM)

Finds little interaction between political information level, strength of party identification, and voting defection (not voting according to the "party line"). Concludes that the decision to defect from party affiliation is largely related to the specific issues in a political campaign. (RL)

Subjects viewed one of two female confederate counselors exploring a female confederate client's problem and attempt to influence. Significant results were higher ratings of counselor expertness for the expert than the referent power base, and higher ratings of counselor expertness for low status within the expert power base. (Author)

The effects of information and of types of rehabilitation specialists on ratings of vocational rehabilitation potential were studied. Ratings based on medical and vocational information were higher and more accurate than ratings based on psychological and social information. (Author)

This discussion focuses on the problems involved in the interpretation and verification of the data gathered and presented by the North American Collections Inventory Project. It suggests that the National Shelflist Count is a better resource for collection management and shared library resources decisions. (CLB)

Summarizes earlier research in the theory of information flow and its application to practical situations and to the relationship between information and the user's knowledge state. A model for creating information profiles is presented which mathematically represents changes in decision making effectiveness as a function of specific documents.…

Traditionally engineers are not heaviest users of information resources. This can be traced to lack of emphasis on information sources in engineering education. Failure to use available knowledge leads to reinventing the wheel and losing the race for technological superiority. Few U.S. universities offer formal courses in information resources in…

The diverse ways in which two-year colleges use and present data from the National Association of College and University Business Officers' annual study of comparative financial statistics are described and illustrated. (MSE)

Second-grade children were explicitly supplied with zero, one, two, or three components of information to specify the respective contributions of various sources and amounts of acquired strategy-utility information. Metacognitive knowledge was evidenced only when the training regiment included the complete set of critical metacognitive components.…

This paper analyzes two types of decisions for insuring mobile oil rigs and fixed installations in the Norwegian North Sea: (1) decisions about information for ratemaking and underwriting, and (2) decisions about the conditions of insurance. Appended are 46 references. (MLF)