State education data systems have often been described as data rich but information poor. Historically, these systems were created for compliance purposes and, therefore, designed and managed as information technology projects, but a culture change is under way. Educators and other stakeholders are beginning to value data as a tool to inform…

A great deal of knowledge acquired through scientific research does not get through to the people who are in a position to use them. When it does, it is often tardy. In the past, the consequences of this have been sometimes scandalous, sometimes tragic. Science grows at a prodigious rate, and the situation today is dismal, the outlook for tomorrow…

The intent of this paper is to examine several dimensions of knowledge production and utilization in curriculum. Attention is given to what sorts of knowledge the field requires, the form it must take to be effectively utilized, and the processes by which the required knowledge is created and put into appropriate form. The paper draws upon work by…

The author believes her ideas on evaluation reporting are old ideas in various fields including communication theory, advertising, social science, and learning theory. The human factor in reporting evaluation must be considered. Those being evaluated often feel threatened by the evaluation. Evaluators need to accept the behaviors of evaluation…

Explains how it is that the fruits of educational research and analysis, so insistently sought by Washington policy-makers, are so inefficiently used. Change will not occur in the manner originally envisioned: where a clear research result will quickly convert a set of coolly rational policy-makers. (Author/IRT)

Employing concepts of formal symbolic logic, the philosophy of science, computer technology, and the work of Hans Zetterberg, a format is suggested for synthesizing and increasing use of the rapidly expanding knowledge of the social sciences. Steps in the process include formulating basic propositions, utilizing computers to establish sets, and…

This report provides a framework for understanding the processes of innovation, dissemination, and knowledge utilization (D&U) and it reviews the relevant literature in education and other fields of practice within this framework. D&U is viewed as a transfer of messages by various media between resource systems and users. Major sections analyze…

Examines the opinions of administrators/evaluators on the usefulness of relatively recent books on educational evaluation. (IRT)

Remarks in this article were presented at the Conference on Management of Consolidated Research Institutions for Population Research, Washington, D.C., in February, 1970. Study is made of the process by which scientific and technical information in the population field must be identified, collected, stored, retrieved, translated, and disseminated…

This paper is an attempt to help professionals to use technical research literature. Three different methods of using research are identified and the advantages and limitations of each are discussed. Professionals frequently try to apply research directly to practical situations but the most useful method is to apply research indirectly by going…

The American Council on Education has a data bank, the Cooperative Institutional Research Program, that offers aid to educational researchers. (PG)

Discusses the Ballew v Georgia decision in which the Supreme Court cited social science research in support of its decision that state criminal juries must contain at least six members, and the implications of this for social scientists interested in having their research used by the courts. (Author/JLF)

Explores the implications of individual effort amidst education's bigness and the possibility of retrieving new instructional "ideas" from the bewildering sea of new research and publications. Teachers need to be continuously informed and consistently encouraged to employ their new knowledge creatively. (Author/BEF)

This paper, written from an organizational perspective, begins with an examination of the deficiencies of knowledge utilization and educational change literature. It suggests the explication of descriptive and heuristic conceptual dimensions as one approach for facilitating a descriptive perspective of knowldge utilization. The efficacy of three…