This book is designed to help school administrators locate, analyze, and effectively use relevant information to create policies at the school or district level. Chapter 1 introduces the concepts of school policy and policy analysis, outlines the five-step Clear and Simple Analysis (CASA) model, and lists seven principles of effective policy…

According to statistics, 69% of women who marry will outlive their husbands, women are widowed at an average age of 56, and women often experience a loss of half their income with the death of their spouse. Women who become widowed must deal with a number of financial concerns, including the following: obtaining a death certificate and presenting…

Noting that the theory of international development is a paradigm, a model by which researchers guide their studies, this paper reviews various concepts of international development theory and proposes a research study that would examine mass media use in Georgia, one of the new republics born out of the death of the Soviet Union. The paper begins…

This paper discusses obstacles to teaching online documentation and shares a collaborative approach to overcoming these obstacles. The paper describes three obstacles: (1) students have had limited access to online documents and hypertext systems; (2) standards and principles of effective design for online documents are not clearly established;…

Three bibliographies list resources (most published in the 1980s) for institutions of higher education concerned with foreign student recruitment, admissions, and advising. The annotated bibliography on foreign student recruitment lists 22 references addressing both policy formulation and admissions and recruiting implementation. Source and…

This report defines active and passive solar energy systems, describes home uses for solar energy, and offers guidelines for choosing and installing a system. Much of the information is specific to the state of California. Uses for solar energy which are presented include passive space heating, passive cooling, active space heating, household…

Criticisms of the one-way flow of international information were first voiced in the 1940s, when, in the name of free flow of information and worldwide access to news, the United States launched an offensive to dismantle European news cartels. At a UNESCO conference in 1945, the United States was chiefly responsible for making the free flow of…

The 199 microcomputer-related ERIC documents listed in this resource guide were reviewed and assigned identifiers from 41 variables (descriptors) in five categories: curriculum (content), educational uses, educational level, hardware/software, and miscellaneous. Variables were assigned on the basis of whether the user interested in this variable…

The Oklahoma State Capacity Building Project, Project SEEK (Sooner Exchange for Educational Knowledge) emphasized three approaches in working toward building a comprehensive dissemination system for Oklahoma's educators: (1) systematic information collection, storage, retrieval, and delivery to educators through state education agency information…

This syllabus begins with a list of concepts, competencies, and skills for review. Two projects are described: the construction of a resource guide and the development of a set of guidelines for the acquisition, organization, and dissemination of government information. Several topics for discussion are suggested, followed by a bibliography which…

Efforts to address the career concerns of psychology majors have traditionally emerged from faculty judgments; little attention has been directed to assessing those concerns from the students' perspective. As part of a larger study to obtain information on students' reactions to types and sources of career related information, psychology majors…

Presents research data indicating that newspapers and magazines are the mass media sources considered most helpful to people seeking medical information. (MH)

Evidence is presented elucidating the role of knowledge about drugs in facilitating or impeding drug use. The issues considered include (1) the role of drug information in previous "education" programs, (2) the source and uses of drug information, (3) the impact of this information, and (4) the alternative roles for drug information. (Author)

The authors describe the Curricular-Career Information Service (CCIS), which is an outreach, self-help, multimedia-based and preprofessional-staffed career guidance service. CCIS consists of five instructional modules which relate to the following student problems: uncertainty about major, relationship of major to jobs, finding a job and…

The operation of the university library is examined. Despite the increase in size of libraries, their standard of service is declining. Reasons for this decline are advanced. The strategic goals of the library are redefined with implications for the library's acquisition, shelving, and retention policies. (Author)