To preserve our nation's democratic ideals and compete in the global economy, we must improve postsecondary educational attainment. Indeed, the stakes are so high that prominent government and business leaders have set a goal for the United States to regain its status as the world's most educated country by 2020. Given demographic and…

This study investigated an innovative approach of program evaluation through analyses of student learning logs, demographic data, and end-of-course evaluation surveys in an online K-12 supplemental program. The results support the development of a program evaluation model for decision making on teaching and learning at the K-12 level. A case study…

An increasing number of higher educational institutes are offering remedial, bridging, preparatory or transitional courses in a blended and online format to remediate and enhance students' knowledge and skills. This article addresses how teachers and institutes design and implement these courses. The descriptions of transitional courses were…

Documents and journal articles acquired by the ERIC Clearinghouses are processed (cataloged, indexed, abstracted/annotated) for retrieval and use by the educational community. The bibliographic data resulting from this processing are provided by the ERIC Clearinghouses on a regular basis to the ERIC Processing and Reference Facility. The ERIC…

The objectives of the Washington Library Network (WLN) are 1) statewide sharing of resources among all types of libraries, 2) economically meeting the information demands of all citizens of the state, and 3) centralized computer-communication systems for bibliographic services. (Author)

A study was conducted of the users of the Indiana University PROBE computer retrieval program using the Resources in Education ERIC data base. The critical incident survey identified the PROBE user characteristics, needs, and satisfaction. (Author)

Describes the development of Interfile, a computerized data bank of sources of information on all phases of international business and trade. (Author/PF)

A reorganization of the NASA data base for faster retrieval is described. (PF)

Two different directory structuring techniques--division hash technique and a hydrid technique--are compared for the same set of keys with directories of from 10,000 to 100,000 unique keys. Retrieval costs, in terms of the number of accesses of secondary storage required to retrieve the keys, are considered in detail. (Author)

Goffman's indirect method and a MeSH tree structure were used to classify a set of 109 medical documents. (PF)

Updates the comparison of the ELHILL (currently ELHILL 3, formerly ELHILL 2) and STAIRS programs as they affect on-line searching of the MEDLARS citation file. (Author)

The subject and scope, years covered, update frequency, record count, and connect and print charges are provided for the 108 data bases available online as of June 1978 through Lockheed Information Systems, System Development Corporation, Bibliographic Retrieval Services, National Library of Medicine, Battelle Columbus Laboratories, and the New…

Discusses the usefulness of the Educational Resources Information Center (ERIC) database to classroom teachers in keeping current in their profession and solving teaching problems. (SK)

The structure of a retrospective information retrieval system that uses equifrequent word or text fragments is described, and its advantages over word oriented systems are mentioned briefly. (Author)

This guide to creating a survey to be administered on the Internet used Microsoft Access as the database program for the illustration. Forty-four steps in constructing the survey, including the Common Gateway Interface that moves the data collected in e-mails directly to the database, are outlined. The example developed by researchers at the…