Using data from national surveys of teachers and school districts, this brief provides the first national estimates of the prevalence of K-12 teachers' access to and use of electronic student data management systems. Specifically, the brief seeks to determine how broadly student data systems are being implemented in districts and schools; the…

Two interpretive case studies are reported that investigate the intentionality of defensiveness versus open-mindedness in persons who hold flawed ideological beliefs. The 1st analyzes an academic authority's resistance to information that disconfirms a therapeutic intervention that he has been successfully promoting. His dissociation and…

There is emerging consensus that the United States faces major higher education challenges, including: (1) America's fall from first to tenth place internationally in the percentage of the population with higher education degrees at a time when the country faces increased global economic competition in a knowledge-intensive economy; (2) Education…

Assessment is a worthwhile undertaking when meaningful data are generated, evidence-based improvement initiatives are thoroughly considered and discussed, and results are ultimately used to improve educational effectiveness. National Survey of Student Engagement (NSSE) results are oriented toward such practical use. Each year, more campuses use…

A study of attitudes related to varied information exposure styles. (CH)

Statisticians can help to improve human rights reporting. The statistician's approach to measurement, summary, and interpretation is needed to understand and help reduce human rights violations. Statistical problems in the measurement and analysis of human rights violations include: lack of agreement on the definition; great difficulties in…

This article reports on an evaluation study of the Pilot State Dissemination Program. The program utilized extension agents who helped teachers and school administrators obtain and interpret information, assess its applicability, and plan steps in its utilization. (HMD)

A history of medical libraries and information, from their exclusive use by physicians decades ago to the present use of such information by researchers, educators, students, health workers other than doctors, and even laymen. (LS)

Many countries, under varying arrangements, have access to biomedical information in U.S. data bases, particularly MEDLARS, Chemical Abstracts Service, BioScience Information Service, and the Institute for Scientific Information. (LS)

The national program focuses on support of a systematic information network, but the problem at the school library level is that students and others do not know how to use what is available. Support for such education is needed. (LS)

Reading for the gifted should be a process of gathering, interpreting, processing and using information. (LH)

This document, one of a series of reports examining the possible contribution of other disciplines to evaluation methodology, describes the major elements of general systems theory (GST), cybernetics theory (CT) and management control theory (MCT). The author suggests that MCT encapsulates major concerns of evaluation since it reveals that…

INFORMATION SYSTEMS CAN OFFER A DELIBERATE MECHANISM FOR THE DIFFUSION OF EDUCATIONAL IDEAS. TO ACCOMPLISH THIS, THE FOLLOWING FACTORS MUST RECEIVE ADEQUATE ATTENTION--(1) THE ORGANIZATION OF KNOWLEDGE SO THAT ALTERNATIVE CONCEPTS CAN BE LOCATED, (2) THE IDENTIFICATION OF USER GROUPS AND THEIR INFORMATION NEEDS, (3) THE EXTENSIVENESS OF DIFFUSION…

These conference proceedings contain 21 papers presented by users of the Selective Permutation Indexing (SPINDEX) system, designed by the National Archives to produce a variety of computer-generated bibliographic aids for archival holdings. Institutions participating in the SPINDEX users' conference represented government, church, university,…

The literature on program evaluation contains numerous suggestions that evaluative information is frequently underutilized or inappropriately utilized by administrators. This paper reviews the literature on utilization with a view toward identifying workable strategies for optimizing appropriate use. Specific recommendations to evaluators include…