A summary of the discussions held at the National Institute of Education (NIE) conference on information dissemination and utilization is presented. Four major questions relating to NIE information dissemination activities are raised, followed by a description of some major features of the incentive structure of information utilization. Five…

The growing complexity of society has resulted in increased attention to the problem of knowledge production and utilization. This review of the scholarship pertaining to this subject traces the topic in its most general sense. Three fields of interest have received attention from researchers: 1) the relation of research to practice; 2) the nature…

Organized on the premise that present educational research is not meeting the expectations of those responsible for educational policies and practices, this book reflects the thinking of seventeen eminent educationalists who have critically examined the existing arrangements for organizing and carrying out research and have offered recommendations…

Two Research Memoranda, numbers 15 and 16, are contained in this volume. (The general nature of the memoranda are described and related documents listed in SO 005 892). The first essay by Daniel E. Costello, entitled "Communication, Knowledge and the Educator as a Problem-Namer", views the problem of knowledge formation and utilization within…

Outlines four common functions of the institutional researcher at community colleges: conducting and coordinating institutional research, including descriptive, evaluative, operational, and policy research; assisting staff and community with research activities; collecting and disseminating research information; and participating in institutional…

The dissemination activities through which college admissions officers heard about Project CHOICE, a three-year project to help colleges improve the information they provided to prospective students, were investigated. The study involved determining how well various dissemination methods (newsletter, journal articles, conference presentations,…

Discusses the Privacy Act of 1974, noting that it "establishes minimal standards for the protection of individual privacy. By contrast, educational researchers and the social science community generally have a far more restrictive attitude toward the protection of individually identifiable data pertaining to research subjects."…

The failure of school library research to reach a wider audience is not simply a matter of dissemination. Research should be conducted on all grade levels and not predominantly secondary schools; relevant to the sponsor; cumulative and built on issues of theory, methodology, and substance developed in earlier work; and interdisciplinary. (PEN)

Discusses the problem of communicating the implications of research findings to the public without distorting, diluting, or sensationalizing. Suggests approaches researchers can take when dealing with the popular media. (MS)

This interview with Assistant Secretary of Education for the Office of Educational Research and Improvement (OERI) Sharon Robinson describes the new organization of OERI and its new emphasis on accessibility and information dissemination. It outlines plans for the agency and goals for educational research. (SLD)

The following review focuses on specific problems in the area of rehabilitation research utilization, the proposed solutions to these problems, and some suggestions concerning the general directions that future research endeavors might take. (Author)

This volume of "Archiving Methodology" provides contractors with standards for developing project-level documentation. This volume is designed to acquaint a potential data user with the research and/or evaluative effort that generated the archived data. It serves as both an introduction to and an overview of a collection of data files by…

Based on information gathered from over 100 Administration on Aging-supported research, this report documents some of the products and uses of research sponsored by the Administration on Aging and supported with funds provided under Title IV-B of the Older Americans Act. Following an introductory sketch of its products, uses and users, statistics…

This paper describes the need for a regional dissemination system; the conceptualization of the Southwest Educational Development Labortory (SEDL) Regional Exchange as part of the nation-wide Research and Development Exchange (RDx); and the operation of the SEDL Regional Exchange (RX). It emphasizes that the Research and Development Exchange is…

Relationships are examined among linking functions and the linking agent role in the context of factors that determine the function and affect the role. The historical context in which educational dissemination has evolved is described, and three major clusters of dissemination concepts that have been identified and analyzed since 1966 are…