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Zikopoulos, Marianthi; Barber, Elinor G. – 1986
The choice of U.S. colleges by foreign students studying for degrees full-time was examined. Responses were received from 1,065 students from 31 colleges. About 7 out of 10 of the students were male, 53.8% were undergraduates, and about 60% were self-supported. Almost half came from South or East Asia (49.2%), followed by Latin America (14%),…
Descriptors: College Choice, College Students, Foreign Students, Higher Education
Download full textSolomon, Alan; Scott, Leontine – 1988
The Home Education Learning Project (Project HELP) of the Philadelphia Public Schools is described. Based on an earlier school district telephone answering service program (Dial-A-Teacher Assistance (DATA LINE), with input from students through surveys, the project was implemented in 1984 to assist students with homework questions. In the first…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Home Study, Homework, Hotlines (Public)
Wills, Dina – 1988
To examine working-class women's attitudes and perceptions about the Women's Movement, a study reviewed 14 collections of interviews with low-income women conducted in the 1970s. Interviews were collected from a variety of sources--academic studies, books written for the general reader, and a large-scale study commissioned by a publisher of…
Descriptors: Communication Research, Employed Women, Females, Feminism
Department of Education, Washington, DC. – 1988
Information on five U.S. Department of Education student financial aid programs and how to apply for them is presented: Pell Grants, Supplemental Educational Opportunity Grants, College Work-Study, Perkins Loans (formerly National Direct Student Loans), and Guaranteed Student Loans (Parent Loans to Undergraduate Students and Supplemental Loans for…
Descriptors: Eligibility, Federal Aid, Financial Aid Applicants, Higher Education
Merrill, Paul F. – 1988
This manual provides detailed instructions for using SilverPlatter software to search the ERIC CD ROM (Compact Disk Read Only Memory), a large bibliographic database relating to education which contains reference information on numerous journal articles from over 750 journals cited in the "Current Index to Journals in Education" (CIJE),…
Descriptors: Computer Software, Databases, Guidelines, Information Sources
Brouillet, Frank B.; And Others – 1983
This handbook addresses the most frequently asked questions about international travel and exchange and gives suggestions to help parents, students, and school personnel avoid some of the problems arising from exchange activity. Chapters include information about: criteria for evaluating and selecting foreign travel and study programs;…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Foreign Students, Information Sources, International Educational Exchange
Sherouse, Vicki, Ed.; Post, Richard, Ed. – 1983
Produced to provide educators and library media personnel with some understanding of and direction in the rapidly expanding field of microcomputers and their applications, this monograph includes several articles dealing specifically with media center applications and others concerned more generally with the microcomputer in educational settings.…
Descriptors: Administration, Cataloging, Computer Software, Glossaries
Bellando, Edourado – 1984
The Falkland-Malvinas conflict is a classic example of how a government can manage news in wartime. The rules of the game as evinced by the British government and Ministry of Defense were simple and effective. They controlled access to the fighting, controlled all communications facilities, excluded all neutral correspondents and carefully…
Descriptors: Censorship, Foreign Countries, Freedom of Speech, Government Role
Schmidt, Janine Betty; Anderson, Barbara Poston – 1983
Intended for students studying information resources units at Kuring-gai College of Advanced Education, this coursebook examines the nature of information, its generation, and the categories and characteristics of various formats of information resources available. Designed as an introduction to sources of brief factual information, the document…
Descriptors: Dictionaries, Directories, Encyclopedias, Evaluation Methods
Kordalewski, Jean B. – 1982
In 1974 the Syracuse University Research Corporation developed the Regional Learning Service (RLS) to provide a free-standing, community-based educational and career information and counseling agency. RLS disaffiliated from the parent body in 1979 and turned to client fees, contracts, and contributions for a financial base. Clients'…
Descriptors: Adult Counseling, Adult Education, Adults, Career Change
Hsia, H. J. – 1983
Current international communication is typified by flow of information from the northern to the southern hemisphere, dominated by the developed nations in information gathering and dissemination, and intensified by technological advances. The imbalance of communication flow, considered by developing nations as responsible for political, economic,…
Descriptors: Developing Nations, Foreign Policy, Influences, Information Dissemination
Loken, Barbara; And Others – 1983
A study was conducted to determine the effectiveness of direct mail appeals in a heart health campaign and to explore the effects of three appeal types (positive, negative, and informational) on knowledge levels and behavior patterns. Seven-hundred fifty randomly selected households were mailed brochures representing one of the three appeal types.…
Descriptors: Adults, Advertising, Behavior Patterns, Community Attitudes
Etkin, Cynthia – 1988
This update of a 1977 training manual is designed for use by student assistants in the government documents section of John Grant Crabbe Library at Eastern Kentucky University. A brief introduction is followed by: (1) floor plans of the library; (2) a description of the documents collection including types of works and classification systems; (3)…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, College Students, Government Publications, Higher Education
Fitzgibbons, Shirley; And Others – 1988
The purpose of this study was to document the educational activities being offered to citizens of all ages through Indiana's 239 public libraries. A mail questionnaire was distributed to every main library and branch in the state, requesting information on the kinds and numbers of education-related services and programs provided in 1987, and…
Descriptors: Educational Needs, Information Sources, Library Role, Library Services
Hillman, Susan J. – 1988
To explore why school administrators have only a limited base of knowledge of the laws and cases affecting education, the Informational Resource Questionnaire (IRQ) was designed to study attitudes about legal knowledge. The IRQ focuses on school demographics, which resources administrators most commonly use to obtain both general and legal…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Administrators, Educational Legislation, Elementary Secondary Education
