The OEYP state-funded program provides extended learning for students who are at risk of academic failure. This report summarizes Austin Independent School District's OEYP activities during 2008-2009.

Comprehensive rules, guidelines, and examples are provided for use by ERIC indexers and lexicographers in developing and maintaining the "Thesaurus of ERIC Descriptors." Evaluation and decision criteria, research procedures, and inputting details for adding new Descriptors are documented. Instructions for modifying existing Thesaurus…

The National Record of Achievement (NRA) was introduced in 1991 in the United Kingdom to provide a single common format to summarize individuals' achievements and experiences in both education and their adult lives. A study examined the use of the NRA within a general adult education context. The heads of 6 adult education centers in 1 Welsh local…

The International Standards Organization (ISO) has developed standards to provide a uniform framework for quality assurance in organizations' products and services. Commonly referred to as ISO 9000, these standards focus on achieving and sustaining the quality of the product or service produced to continuously meet purchasers' needs, and give…

Increasing numbers of colleges and universities are responding to the needs of adults seeking professional training and have come to recognize the value of experiential learning. One method of assessing previous learning is to prepare a portfolio with documentation of life experiences as they related to the learning process. The East Central…

A nationwide survey examined the role of educational credentials in the employment practices of private sector companies and institutions. In September 1983, surveys were mailed to a random sample of 1,500 members of the American Society for Personnel Administration. A follow-up mailing was conducted a month later. A total of 643 completed surveys…

Some research indicates that a number of children understand vision as an outreaching of the sense, and that they are the originator of the process (Eaton, Anderson, & Smith, 1983; Guesne, 1985). The children draw arrows or rays that point out of the eyes, sometimes returning to the head, and write that vision involves the eyes seeing or…

There is a need to develop an interdisciplinary information base of publications related specifically to theory methodology and construction. Existing information sources focus primarily on the dissemination of ccompleted research project results. (Author/WM)

Among the projects described are programs for the promotion of National Information Systems (NATIS) and of scientific and technological documentation and information. (PF)

The third volume of the Global 2000 study presents basic information ("documentation") on the long-term sectoral models used by the U.S. government to project global trends in population, resources, and the environment. Its threefold purposes are: (1) to present all this basic information in a single volume, (2) to provide an…

Comprehensive rules, guidelines, and examples are provided for use by ERIC indexers and lexicographers in developing and maintaining the "Thesaurus of ERIC Descriptors." Instructions are included for adding new Descriptors and modifying existing terminology; procedures for justifying these actions are provided, as well. Definitions and…

International information dissemination in the field of interdisciplinary youth research is necessary to exchange research results and to stimulate the production of new information. Interest in information regarding theories, methods, and empirical results has resulted in development of international exchange mechanisms, but information about…

A system for describing the specific elements that constitute any psychological intervention is presented. The system includes 39 operations or controlling responses which may be administered by the psychologist, the client, or both together. Varying the administration of the operations can provide over 100 source/operation elements in the coding…

THE PURPOSE OF THE PROJECT WAS TO REVIEW THE TEST AND EVALUATION LITERATURE ON DOCUMENT RETRIEVAL SYSTEMS, TO IDENTIFY THE METHODOLOGICAL PROBLEMS, AND TO DEVELOP A SET OF RECOMMENDATIONS FOR RESEARCHERS IN THE FIELD. TWO BASIC TOOLS WERE DEVELOPED TO AID IN THE DESCRIPTION AND EVALUATION OF THE STUDIES REVIEWED. THE FIRST TOOL WAS A DESCRIPTIVE…

THIS REVISED ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY LISTS 143 RAND PUBLICATIONS IN COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS, INCLUDING SUCH AREAS AS LINGUISTIC RESEARCH METHODS, STUDIES ON THE RUSSIAN AND ENGLISH LANGUAGES, INFORMATION RETRIEVAL, PSYCHOLINGUISTICS, AND CHARACTER READERS. ENTRIES ON THE RUSSIAN LANGUAGE ARE FURTHER ORGANIZED AS ANALYSES OF TEXTS AND GLOSSARIES,…