The What Works Clearinghouse (WWC) is a central and trusted source of information of scientific evidence for what works in education. Towards that end, the WWC summarizes research on a range of practices, programs, and policies (interventions) and disseminates that research in a variety of forms on the free public website. In recent years, the WWC…

"Better Evidence, Better Choices, Better Schools," a recent report from the Center for American Progress and the Knowledge Alliance, focuses on the evidence-based research provisions in the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA). ESSA provisions ask districts and schools to consider various sources of evidence, make judgments about the…

There are few tools that exist to measure knowledge mobilization (KMb), the process of connecting research to policy and practice across diverse organizations and sectors. This article reports on a comparison of KMb efforts of 105 educational organizations: faculties of education (N = 21), research brokering organizations (N = 44), school…

In connection with the Omnibus Appropriations Act, 2009, GAO (Government Accountability Office) was required to study the What Works Clearinghouse (WWC), a federal source of evidence about effective education practices. Operating through a 5-year contract awarded by the U.S. Department of Education's Institute of Education Sciences (IES), the WWC…

The ERIC Administrative Bulletin (EAB) is the internal "house organ" of the Educational Resources Information Center (ERIC), the nationwide bibliographic information system covering the educational literature. ERIC is sponsored by the Office of Educational Research and Improvement (OERI) within the U.S. Department of Education. The EAB…

This document consists of the last two issues of the now discontinued printed "ERIC Administrative Bulletin" (EAB). For nearly twenty years, EAB was the internal "house organ" of the Educational Resources Information Center (ERIC), the nationwide bibliographic information system covering the educational literature. ERIC is…

The ERIC Administrative Bulletin (EAB) is the internal "house organ" of the Educational Resources Information Center (ERIC), the nationwide bibliographic information system covering the educational literature. ERIC is sponsored by the Office of Educational Research and Improvement (OERI) within the U.S. Department of Education. The EAB…

The Technological Applications Project (TAP) is based on three hypotheses: 1) there are a lot of instructional systems and materials that no one knows about; 2) at least some of what has been created is of the kind and quality that could be used by someone else; and 3) access to these little known materials is difficult in many cases as mechanisms…

The objectives of the study were: (1) to experimentally determine the effect of each CFSTI announcement medium on the average demand per report; (2) to experimentally determine the effect of the selection process, isolated from the effect of the special announcement media, on the average demand per report, and (3) to use (1) and (2) to study how…

This quarterly publication announces the availability of documents acquired and processed by the Educational Resources Information Center (ERIC) Clearinghouse on Vocational and Technical Education. It contains abstracts of research and other materials which are useful to researchers, supervisors, teacher educators, education specialists,…

Argues that the implementation of a National Periodicals Center and the resultant monopolization of the distribution of periodical literature could force many journals out of business, destroy interlibrary loan systems, and lead to an Orwellian control of newspapers, books, data bases, and other information sources. (JP)

The Illinois Resources File (IRF) will be a data base with both manual and automated retrieval capabilities and will be compatible with ERIC. Indexing and abstracting will be done according to the "ERIC Theraurus" and the "ERIC Processing Manual" until an Illinois Processing Manual is developed; the planned completion date is…

This sixth annual report describes progress achieved by the Federal Government in improving the communication of scientific and technical information to support and enhance national science and technology. Included in the report are details regarding the scientific and technical activities of individual Federal Agencies, such as the Atomic Energy…

This quarterly publication announces the availability of documents acquired and processed by the Educational Resources Information Center (ERIC) Clearinghouse on Vocational and Technical Education. It contains abstracts of research and other materials which are useful to researchers, supervisors, teacher educators, education specialists,…