This two-volume annual report is the first in a series of reports summarizing the activities and accomplishments of the Educational Resources Information Center (ERIC) program. The second volume discusses trends and issues in the areas of education covered by each of the clearinghouses. These discussions focus on critical research findings and…

This 142-item annotated bibliography, limited to documents announced in Resources in Education from April 1978 to January 1979, cites reports generated directly or indirectly by 47 large school districts in the United States and Canada. The reports include descriptions and evaluations of career education, compensatory, bilingual, special…

The literature on faculty research performance is reviewed, with a focus on research by individual faculty members. The literature on the sociology of science and data-based results from sociological studies are emphasized. Attention is directed to measures of performance, the explanations and specific correlates likely to influence high research…

This digest describes a research model that has shown how classroom practice can be developed, transformed, and enriched by drawing on existing "funds of knowledge" in minority students households. Funds of knowledge refers to those historically developed and accumulated strategies (e.g., skills, abilities, ideas, practices) or bodies of…

Designed to demonstrate that the ERIC (Educational Resources Information Center) database is a useful source of information for educational practitioners at all levels, this digest provides an introduction to the ERIC system and describes the National Education Practice File Project (NEPF). This 2-year project was designed to find out from…

This directory provides basic information on all research projects receiving funding, as of December 1987, from the Division of Innovation and Development, Office of Special Education Programs, U.S. Department of Education. The projects included are the field-initiated and student-initiated grants, most of the directed competitions, and the…

This publication provides information on current research on teaching and teacher education. The abstracts contained here have been organized into three major categories: teacher education programs, professional development, and intellectual growth. In addition to addressing a variety of topics, these papers are based upon a range of scholarly…

This digest describes the organization of the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) and what is included in a typical NAEP assessment. The way in which the NAEP selects students for assessments and how the assessments are used are discussed. The NAEP is a congressionally mandated project of the National Center for Education…

This publication contains abstracts of papers on current research on teaching and teacher education which were presented in the segment of the 1989 AERA annual meeting organized by Division K (teaching and teacher education). A diversity of topics are addressed in the papers and a diversity of investigative procedures--case studies, conceptual…

This digest examines the organization of and international studies conducted by the International Association for the Evaluation of Educational Achievement (IEA). The IEA is a non-profit, private association that conducts international comparative studies on schools and aids the research community in developing international tests and statistical…

This monograph presents a compilation of research in industrial arts education from 1968 through 1979. The first section reviews studies which deal with the philosophical bases of industrial arts and which examine its historical development. The second section identifies studies that emphasized industrial arts' role as an integral component of a…

This digest discusses the nature of interactive videodiscs and their educational applications, provides information about educational uses of videodisc technology, and presents lists of videodisc-related organizations, books, and periodicals. A general description of a reflective optical laser videodisc is presented, as well as the equipment…

This paper reviews the current extent of, research into, and future expectations for the use of online bibliographic retrieval systems by untrained end users rather than by trained search intermediaries. Six sections cover: (1) studies of direct end user searching, done primarily with students or persons in highly technical fields; (2) problems to…

There appears to have been no coherent movement of rural adult education in the United States since the area was first surveyed in the 1930s. Such problems exist as fragmentation, a lack of communication across efforts, and a lack of continuity in time. There does not even appear to be adequate information on the nature and scope of the enterprise…

Most educational programs focusing on dialect differences are constructed to move speakers toward the standard variety of English. However, dialect study as language study in its own right introduces dialects as resources for learning about language and culture, with potential for language arts education. Systematic introduction of dialect…