The guidelines presented here for regional, national, or international referral centers are concerned with the effective exploitation of available information inventories. Defined as agencies which refer inquirers to the sources most likely to provide the desired information, these centers are recognized by UNESCO's UNISIST program as necessary…

Designed to provide a systematic means of analyzing the whole process of planning, implementation, and evaluation, these guidelines (1) suggest how national policies on user training may be related to national information policies in general, (2) suggest lines of action for the achievement of a national policy on user training, and (3) give advice…

This book provides information about national organizations which can help parents, citizens, and grassroots organizations become more directly involved in educational policymaking. Emphasis is placed on how and where to get information and the kinds of information needed. Relevant information is provided for the following topics: (1) public…

This first in a series of three papers on models for communicating and disseminating career education programs covers national and regional models. Focus is on four levels of dissemination: spread, exchange, choice, and implementation. First, common mechanisms for spread are described, such as newsletters, brochures and materials packets,…

One of a series of sixteen knowledge transformation papers, this paper deals with the nature and extent of use of evaluative data by administrators in vocational education. First, the following conditions which govern the use of the data are described: availability, reliability, credibility, utility, and consistency. Since the legitimacy of most…