ERIC Number: ED324319
Record Type: Non-Journal
Publication Date: 1989-Mar-30
Pages: 21
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ERIC/TM Acquisition Process: Its Benefits to the Educational Community & You.
Hannaman, Paula M.
The process by which the Educational Resources Information Center's Clearinghouse on Tests, Measurement, and Evaluation (ERIC/TM) acquires documents and the ways in which it offers them to users are discussed. Focus is on identifying how the ERIC/TM and members of the National Council on Measurement in Education (NCME) can cooperate to increase the standards and quality of professional knowledge in the educational community. Responsibilities of the ERIC/TM are to: (1) identify, acquire, and select literature within the clearinghouse scope; (2) process selected documents to maintain the ERIC database; and (3) disseminate information to policymakers, program planners, practitioners, and researchers via the database, publications, and user-information staff. Although the working relationship between the ERIC/TM and NCME has been mutually supportive, both could benefit by a greater incorporation of documents from NCME members into the ERIC/TM database. ERIC/TM document processing is described. Benefits to authors of submitting their documents to the ERIC/TM include: (1) wider dissemination of knowledge; (2) free publicity; (3) quick and easy retrieval by a worldwide audience; (4) selected documents will never go "out of print"; (5) provision of a complementary microfiche of the document; and (6) ERIC acceptance does not preclude other publication. Seven figures illustrate the text. (SLD)
Publication Type: ERIC Publications
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Language: English
Sponsor: Office of Educational Research and Improvement (ED), Washington, DC.
Authoring Institution: ERIC Clearinghouse on Tests, Measurement, and Evaluation, Washington, DC.
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