This document describes the development of an inventory of higher education outcome variables and measures. The intent of the inventory is to assist different kinds and levels of decisionmakers in communicating the desired and actual outcomes of instructional as well as research and public service activities. Two guidelines for using the inventory…

Lecturers in colleges of education were surveyed using semistructured, group (3-5 persons) interviews. Information requirements for lecturers involved in research means the retrieval and use of large numbers of facts or references. Lecturers engaged in teaching only, however, need to know where to find specific pieces of information. The problem…

The Social and Rehabilitation Service (SRS) has developed the Research Information System (RIS), a central information base which evolved from research and demonstration (R&D) programs sponsored over the years by SRS. It was specifically designed for use by the practitioner rather than by the formal researcher in an area of special…

A summary is presented of data gathered for a survey of information center services in the form of statistics for a hypothetical typical information center. The extent of information transfer on national and international levels among the responding centers is discussed. (Author)

Volume five continues with research memoranda numbers seven, eight and nine. (The general nature of the memoranda and related documents are described in SO 005 892). Research Memorandum #7, "Knowledge Utilization in Education: A Review of Significant Theories and Research," by Mary Trapp provides a background sketch of theories and research…

The manual explains abstracting and indexing styles and procedures used at the Council for Exceptional Children Information Center in preparing information for publication and entrance into the information retrieval system. General abstracting guidelines cover types of abstracts, form of abstract, content of abstract, abstracting guidelines for…

The information system for the Los Angeles City School District has been designed to provide relevant information in a readily available and concise manner. Equally important to the effectiveness of the information system, however, is that the decisionmaker have the capability to actually use the information. This report describes an in-service…

In pursuance of resolution 2.141 (a) adopted by the General Conference at its sixteenth session (October-November 1970), the Intergovernmental Conference for the Establishment of a World Science Information System (UNISIST) was organized by Unesco. The purpose of the Conference held October 4-8, 1971 was to make recommendations covering the basic…

In the course of elaborating "la technique," Jacques Ellul stoutly contradicts the democratic assumption that citizens can have sufficient information to participate knowledgeably in the governing process. "La technique" converts message systems into propagandization networks and erects an inflexible boundary which democracy…

Because information flow is considered essential to an organization and because decision makers are dependent upon accurate information, the distortion of messages as they move upward in an organization has become a central concern of many organizational communication researchers. The purposes of this paper are to critically review the various…

Students appear to leave the university with intentions to utilize the measurement and evaluation techniques that were presented, yet somehow utilization is not really achieved. (MM)

Discusses three conceptual approaches to the measurement of library use: use, users, and uses. For each of these approaches, units of measure involved conceptual strengths and limitations, and methods of measurement are presented. Two tables of data are included. (Author/JD)

Three experiments were performed to explore actors' and observers' use of consensus to infer dispositions, stimulus attributes, and causal attributions. Subjects were college students. (CM)

Through a review and integration of heretofore rather distinct literatures, this paper develops preliminary conceptual frameworks of the variables affecting the acquisition and utilization of technical information by administrative agencies. (Author/IRT)

Managerial style has implications for program evaluators who wish teir work to be utilized in the decision-making process. This article characterizes managerial behavior in general, and draws some inferences as to how utilization would proceed and how it might be increased. (Author/CTM)