This report describes the conceptual framework of a study examining the feasibility of developing, on a nationwide basis, a system of statistical indicators of educational knowledge outputs, dissemination structures, and knowledge utilization settings and outcomes, along with their contextual indicators. Using the notion of social indicators to…

By providing access to samples of forms and other evaluation/management documentation, this compendium provides a working tool so that state projects can share methodologies for gathering data and applying it for both summative and formative evaluation purposes. This compendium may also serve to indicate procedural gaps in some projects, or to…

This report describes and analyzes statistical indicators of educational knowledge production and dissemination capability, presenting data at both the state and regional levels of aggregation. Three factors underlie 12 statistical indicators: a document production and access factor, a human-based linkage and exemplary practices factor, and a…

The community colleges in the state of Washington are committed to a Six Year Plan to provide computing and information systems support to all students. The system is intended to make available a broad range of career placement information to assist decision-making, thereby humanizing education by insuring fewer misguided students, counselors and…

This report reviews the second-year activities of the Alabama Occupational Information System (AOIS), whose second-year objectives were (1) to review all state file formats, particularly the occupational file, (2) to validate national data supplied by the Government Information Service (GIS), (3) to develop and implement a Job Bank Summary File,…