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Maryland State Dept. of Education, Baltimore. Div. of Library Development and Services. – 1987
Designed to assist Maryland school administrators, library media specialists, and teachers in selecting materials for their citizenship programs, this guide contains annotations of materials selected by local teachers, social studies supervisors, and library media specialists from across the state. The selection was based on five criteria: (1)…
Descriptors: Annotated Bibliographies, Audiovisual Aids, Citizenship Education, Computer Software
Ferguson, Mary Ann; Weigold, Michael – 1986
A study examined the relationships among source diversity, medium reliance, and nominal issue diversity. Source diversity is defined as the number of categories or classes of sources, and in the study nominal diversity within media (newspapers, television and magazines) was examined. Medium reliance is defined as the perceived usefulness of a…
Descriptors: Broadcast Industry, Higher Education, Information Sources, Mass Media
Evans, John E. – 1986
This paper addresses several problems relating to the use of research materials and information resources by graduate students and proposes teaching educational research skills in an introductory-level graduate research course, "Information Resources for Educational Research," to be taught by the Memphis State University (MSU) Library…
Descriptors: Course Descriptions, Educational Research, Graduate Study, Higher Education
Askalani, Mohamed; Thompson, Paul – 1981
Computer assisted Instruction (CAI) in economics can comprise one possible strategy for enhancing the instructional environment in economics at all levels. Currently, about 90% of the school districts in the United States are using a computer. Over half, 54%, of these districts are using the computer as an instructional tool. Less than 13% of the…
Descriptors: Annotated Bibliographies, Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Programs, Economics Education
News Restrictions as Transcultural Phenomenon: A Comparative Study of Informal Information Controls.
Gibson, Dirk C. – 1983
A Study investigated the informal methods of governmental information control used in four countries--the United States, Great Britain, West Germany, and the Soviet Union--to determine how the governments discretely and quietly limited unfavorable publicity. The examination revealed seven possible control methods: (1) preemptive leaks, (2)…
Descriptors: Censorship, Comparative Analysis, Foreign Countries, Government Role
Higgins, Adrian T. – 1986
This Federal Library and Information Center Committee (FLICC) Forum on Federal Information Policies focused on the impact of OMB (Office of Management and Budget) Circular A-130, which revises administration policy on information dissemination and the use of automated systems by federal agencies. Introductory remarks by James P. Riley, Kent A.…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Federal Regulation, Government Publications, Information Dissemination
Special Libraries Association, Washington, DC. – 1986
These proceedings contain edited versions of 14 papers on government information and its relation to the library and information community that were presented at a state-of-the-art institute sponsored by the Special Library Association (SLA). Following a foreword by Steve Bell of ABC News and an introduction by David R. Bender of the SLA, papers…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Copyrights, Decision Making, Ethics
Howze, Wendell M. – 1986
This practicum involved developing and implementing on a pilot basis a clearinghouse for resources on child safety education. The setting was a growing urban county in the Sunbelt. Project goals were to (1) locate local resources for child safety education; (2) establish a computerized database of the resources; (3) develop a system by which…
Descriptors: Child Safety, Children, Clearinghouses, Community Centers
Morris, Judith – 1986
Intended for trainers who have little knowledge of information technology (IT) and its use in education and training, this information sheet describes IT as consisting of three elements--information handling, communications technology, and information transformation--and explains how these elements contribute to the conveying of information. To…
Descriptors: Communications, Computer Uses in Education, Developed Nations, Foreign Countries
Mikesh, Coleen – 1986
A study examined the ways that people talk to policy and decision makers about the future and constructed a model of future talk. Specifically, speeches given to government policy makers about science and technology were analyzed in order to discover how people communicate information about the future. Each incident was reviewed and assigned a…
Descriptors: Communication Research, Communication (Thought Transfer), Content Analysis, Decision Making
Department of Education, Washington, DC. – 1985
A guide to federal student financial aid programs is provided for students. General information is provided on: eligibility, financial aid, application forms, records needed, the Student Aid Report (SAR), verification by applicants of the information reported on their applications, transfer students, deadlines, addresses where applications are…
Descriptors: College Students, Eligibility, Federal Aid, Financial Aid Applicants
Christian, Donna – 1986
A directory of collections of audio recordings of varieties of American English spoken in North America and including English-based creoles contains information about collections of any size, classified according to the primary state in the U.S. represented by the speakers in the sample and cross-referenced when more than one state is represented…
Descriptors: Audiotape Recordings, Creoles, Dialects, Information Sources
Barrett, W. F. – 1985
The EUDISED (European Documentation and Information System for Education) database is described in this document and proposals are made for extending the database to cover areas in addition to educational research projects. Mention is made of educational periodicals, audiovisual teaching aids, educational software, the periodical…
Descriptors: Audiovisual Aids, Computer Software, Data Processing, Databases
Pettey, Gary R.; And Others – 1986
A two-part study investigated the speed with which information about the explosion of the space shuttle "Challenger" was disseminated and the information holding and affect differences associated with different media channels. In the first part of the study, cross-sectional data were collected from 119 college undergraduates within 54…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Emotional Response, Higher Education, Information Dissemination
Salasin, John; Cedar, Toby – 1982
A survey was administered in 1979 to people whose occupations involved them in various aspects of rural mental health services; its purpose was to collect information for the development of approaches for improving the transfer of information in applied research fields. Using a variety of sources to identify potential study members (researchers,…
Descriptors: Cognitive Structures, Communication (Thought Transfer), Communications, Health Occupations