Databases and clearinghouses useful in education are described in this two part document. The first section contains one-page summaries of 55 databases of interest to people in education. The types of information provided by the various databases are indicated, including bibliographies, funding information, statistics, government publications and…

THIS FIRST ISSUE OF A 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…

A REVIEW OF 16 INSTITUTIONAL RESEARCH REPORTS IN THE CLEARINGHOUSE FOR JUNIOR COLLEGE INFORMATION INDICATES THE TYPE OF EFFORTS BEING MADE BY JUNIOR COLLEGES TO REDUCE THEIR NUMBERS OF DROPOUTS. QUESTIONNAIRE STUDIES, ANALYSIS OF STUDENT CHARACTERISTICS, AND ADJUSTMENT OF INSTITUTIONAL POLICIES AND PROCEDURES ARE TYPICAL PRACTICES. INSTITUTIONAL…

A CUMULATIVE EDITION, CONTAINING TWO "INFORMATION BRIEFS" AND THREE "NEWSLETTERS," OF THE 1ST YEAR'S PUBLICATIONS OF ERIC/CRIER IS PRESENTED. THE EDUCATION RESOURCES INFORMATION CENTER/CLEARINGHOUSE ON THE RETRIEVAL OF INFORMATION AND EVALUATION IN READING IS A JOINT PROJECT BETWEEN THE INTERNATIONAL READING ASSOCIATION AND…

JUNIOR COLLEGE RESEARCH IS TYPICALLY "INSTITUTIONAL" WITH APPLICABILITY ONLY TO THE SPECIFIC INSTITUTION. MOST REPORTS RECEIVED AT THE CLEARINGHOUSE DESCRIBE COMPARATIVE STUDIES OF POPULATIONS (ENTIRE CLASSES, STUDENT BODIES, ETC.) INVOLVING NO SAMPLING PROCESSES. DATA WERE COMMONLY COLLECTED THROUGH RECORDS SEARCHES AND PRESENTED IN…

AN EXAMINATION OF 29 STUDIES REVEALS A GREAT VARIATION IN THE PROCEDURES AND FINDINGS OF THESE INVESTIGATIONS INTO EXPERIMENTAL EFFORTS IN JUNIOR COLLEGE CURRICULA AND INSTRUCTIONAL PROCEDURE. HOWEVER, THE STUDIES USUALLY DID ONE OF FOUR THINGS--(1) CONSIDERED PROGRAMS AT A NUMBER OF INSTITUTIONS, (2) SUMMARIZED THE RATIONALE AND PROCEDURE OF AN…

A PROJECT INVOLVING STORING AND SEARCHING READING RESEARCH BY COMPUTER WAS CONDUCTED (1) TO IDENTIFY, COLLECT, AND ORGANIZE A BASIC CORPUS OF RESEARCH DOCUMENTS FROM THE PUBLISHED RESEARCH LITERATURE ON READING, (2) TO PRODUCE A MASTER FILE MAGNETIC TAPE CONSISTING OF CITATIONS AND ANNOTATIONS FOR COMPUTER STORAGE AND MANIPULATION, (3) TO DESCRIBE…

ERIC abstracts on the school principalship, announced in RIE through August 1970, are presented. The key terms used in compiling this collection are "administrator role,""principals,""school administration," and "teacher administrator relationship." The following information is presented for each document: author, title, place of publication,…

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,…

Cumulative indexes to the four issues of "Abstracts of Instructional Materials in Vocational and Technical Education" (AIM), and the four issues of "Abstracts of Research and Related Materials in Vocational and Technical Education" (ARM) published quarterly, September 1968-Summer 1969, are provided in this annual publication. Researchers,…

ERIC (Educational Resources Information Center) was the first attempt to develop a systematic way of collecting, storing, organizing, disseminating, and analysing information in the field of education. ERIC operates at four levels. At the top is the governmental level office, central ERIC, which supervises the ERIC Processing and Reference…

The document contains the three Summary of Activities Reports (1970 through 1973) that the American Society for Information Science submitted to the Office of Education and the National Institute of Education. The performance categories for each report include: 1) document processing; 2) information analysis; 3) services; 4) promotional…

The fourth annual bibliography of ERIC Clearinghouse publications reflects the information analysis activities of each Clearinghouse for Fiscal Year 1971. The publication includes 416 substantive bibliographies, papers, and state-of-the-art reviews which are identified as ERIC information analysis publications. The full text of 310 of the 416…

This document is the 1971-72 annual progress report of the Center to Improve Learning and Instruction, at the University of Utah. A comprehensive look at the major projects of the Center during the 1971-72 year, the principal Center publications, project writing activities, activities related to seeking sources of funding, individual…

This paper was submitted to Our Lady of the Lake College as an independent study project in Library Science. It covers the 1125 LI documents listed in "Research in Education" from March 1971-April 1972 and focuses attention on the 169 which are not available from the EDRS. It briefly discusses the relative difficulty of obtaining non…