States, school districts, and schools across the country are increasingly implementing multi-tier systems of support (MTSS) to improve outcomes for all students. Kansas is no exception. The Kansas MTSS is designed to improve outcomes for all students by instituting system-level change across the classroom, school, district, and state. Such…

This study, which was conducted to determine how effectively the U.S. Department of Education plans for and manages its information resources in supporting its mission and administering its programs, focused on the Department's strategic information resources management (IRM) planning process. Meetings were held with program officials to ascertain…

Discusses the need for a method to measure computer user abilities, and presents an instrument that identifies individuals' technical, modeling, and applications skills. An evaluation of the instrument in terms of validity and reliability is reported, and applications in user education research are suggested. (12 references) (CLB)