The momentum behind building high-quality data systems to harvest better information about student, school and district performance has never been stronger. To meet the goal of improving student achievement, policymakers and educators need longitudinal data systems capable of providing timely, valid and relevant data. Although…

This article is a synopsis of three performance tasks designed for students enrolled in an educational leadership graduate level course Using Data to Affect Change. These performance tasks address the requisite knowledge and skills that an effective school leader should possess in order to improve the quality of instruction and at the same time…

Article attempts to enhance administrative bargaining power through the effective use of information-based strategies. Strategies. calculated to achieve academic redesign are included in the text. (Author/HB)

Discusses impact of the "information explosion" on college debaters. (CH)

This section of the "Archiving Methodology" is concerned with the role of data collection contractors in the archiving process. Their role is discussed from three perspectives: (1) the nature of the relationship of the data collection contractor, the project officer, and the archivist; (2) the considerations contractors must make when…

The author believes her ideas on evaluation reporting are old ideas in various fields including communication theory, advertising, social science, and learning theory. The human factor in reporting evaluation must be considered. Those being evaluated often feel threatened by the evaluation. Evaluators need to accept the behaviors of evaluation…

The evaluation literature suggests that evaluation studies may be underutilized by policy makers. This possibility has stimulated a good deal of evaluation use research. However, most of the research has not been theoretically grounded. This paper reviews the key propositions of communications theory and related previous research, as they are…

OF 18,000 SECONDARY SCHOOLS CONTACTED, 30 PERCENT RESPONDED TO A QUESTIONNAIRE ON OCCUPATIONAL INFORMATION MATERIALS. OCCUPATIONAL LITERATURE WAS OBTAINED BY COUNSELORS 80 PERCENT OF THE TIME. ON THE AVERAGE, $178.00 IS AVAILABLE YEARLY FOR THIS PURCHASE. THE FACILITIES AVAILABLE FOR DISPLAYING MATERIALS ARE DESCRIBED. THE CIRCUMSTANCES UNDER…

In the policy making process, one of the important steps is the consideration of the consequences deriving from the alternative choices. For the case of information policy, the present research has begun the development of a methodology for doing so. The methodology chosen was modeling. Information policy modeling serves the dual purposes of…

A COMPREHENSIVE SURVEY OF OCCUPATIONAL INFORMATION LITERATURE AND AN EVALUATION OF ITS USE BY SECONDARY SCHOOL PERSONNEL WERE CONDUCTED. ANALYSIS SHOWED THAT THE EVALUATIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS HELD TRUE FOR ALL REGIONS OF THE UNITED STATES. FURTHER ANALYSIS INDICATED THAT COUNSELORS' RESPONSES WERE NOT AFFECTED BY SUCH SITUATIONAL VARIABLES AS…

THIS PAPER DISCUSSES FACTORS IN THE ACQUIRING, PROCESSING, AND UTILIZING OF INFORMATION IN TEACHER SELECTION, AND DESCRIBES TWO INDEPENDENT VARIABLES IN AN EXPERIMENT ON TEACHER SELECTION--NUMBER OF DOCUMENTS AND MASKING OF INFORMATION. THE DISCUSSION FOCUSES ON SELECTION STRATEGIES, VALIDITY OF INFORMATION, CURRENT PRACTICES OF GATHERING AND…

During the first year of publication of Current Papers in Physics (1966) a joint study was undertaken in the UK by Aslib working under contract with the Institute of Electrical Engineers (IEE) and in the US by the American Institute of Physics (AIP) to assess the need for the new publication and its usefulness to the physics community. The study…

The report presents the results of a study on the use being made of 'source abstracts' and 'source index terms' published in engineering journals. The results were derived from questionnaires circulated to subscribers to eighteen journals in engineering fields which currently publish 'source abstracts' and 'source index terms'. The overall results…

This report explores the bodies of literature pertinent to the economics of information, a topic of growing interest to the information community and to economists. As used here, economics of information refers to the concepts and tools of economics as they apply to information activities. The report consists of (1) a short section on the…

Major career education concepts were infused into the total curriculum in District II of Richland County in Columbia, South Carolina. Six major areas of emphasis were identified reflecting district thinking and national trends: self awareness; decision-making; career awareness; attitudes and appreciations; economic awareness; and educational…