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Direct linkSchwartz, Heather L.; Hamilton, Laura S.; Faxon-Mills, Susannah; Gomez, Celia J.; Huguet, Alice; Jaycox, Lisa H.; Leschitz, Jennifer T.; Tuma, Andrea Prado; Tosh, Katie; Whitaker, Anamarie A.; Wrabel, Stephani L. – RAND Corporation, 2020
In 2016, in an effort to gain knowledge about how to help children develop social and emotional learning (SEL) skills, The Wallace Foundation launched a six-year project called the Partnerships for Social and Emotional Learning Initiative (PSELI). The goals of PSELI are for students to experience reinforcing messages about SEL both in school and…
Descriptors: Social Emotional Learning, Social Development, Emotional Development, Skill Development
Randler, Christoph; Osti, Janina; Hummel, Eberhard – EURASIA Journal of Mathematics, Science & Technology Education, 2012
A decline in biology interest has often been claimed but seldom with an empirically substantiation. This study was based on a sample of 3rd and 4th grade pupils within the same geographical area as Lowe's (1987, 1992) previous results from southwest Germany from the year 1983. We used a four-point Likert-type questionnaire to assess interest with…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Botany, Zoology, Biology
Peer reviewedLadas, Harold; Osti, Louis – High School Journal, 1973
Descriptors: Class Activities, Cognitive Processes, Discussion (Teaching Technique), Educational Objectives
Plumb, Philip W. – Library Association Record, 1971
A description of the Unit which has been set up at Cambridge University with an OSTI grant and whose work is to study methods leading to increased effectiveness and efficiency in academic libraries. Attention is focussed on practical investigations making use of O & M and related techniques. (Author)
Descriptors: Administration, College Libraries, Library Planning, Library Research
Peer reviewedLucker, G. William; Osti, James R. – Journal of Offender Rehabilitation, 1997
Examines recidivism rates for 3,994 first-time, driving-while-intoxicated (DWI) offenders. Results indicate that convicted DWI offenders placed on probation had a 47% greater risk of a re-arrest for DWI than did individuals who completed a pretrial intervention (PTI) program. Discusses the utility of a PTI alternative. (RJM)
Descriptors: Alcohol Abuse, Correctional Rehabilitation, Court Litigation, Courts
Mackenzie, A. Graham, Ed.; Stuart, Ian M., Ed. – 1969
This proceedings volume of a seminar on planning library services is the third in a series of papers, published at irregular intervals, to report on research work by members of the University of Lancaster library staff. From January 1967 until June 1969 the Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI) organized regular meetings under the…
Descriptors: College Libraries, Foreign Countries, Libraries, Library Research
Download full textMackenzie, A. Graham, Ed.; Stuart, Ian M., Ed. – 1969
This proceedings volume of a seminar on planning library services is the third in a series of papers, published at irregular intervals, to report on research work by members of the University of Lancaster library staff. From January 1967 until June 1969 the Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI) organized regular meetings under the…
Descriptors: College Libraries, Foreign Countries, Libraries, Library Research
Bath Univ. of Technology (England). Univ. Library. – 1970
The Office for Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI) responded to the need for additional data about the sorts of information social scientists want and use, and to assess the value of a personalized information service to social scientists in an academic environment by supporting an experimental information officer in the social sciences…
Descriptors: College Libraries, Information Dissemination, Information Needs, Information Retrieval
Swift, D. F.; And Others – 1970
The OSTI-SEA (Sociology of Education Abstracts) project was conceived as a result of the awareness that the task of SEA as a service was steadily increasing in complexity and size. A three-year project was initiated to develop a system to meet information needs, patterns of inquiry and preferences as to type of service of its users. The study…
Descriptors: Abstracts, Educational Sociology, Foreign Countries, Information Needs
Loughborough Univ. of Technology (England). – 1971
The aim of the project was to develop automated systems encompassing the functions of existing manual procedures, but only when the functions could also be surpassed sufficiently to justify the cost of automation. The housekeeping systems were to be viewed as a whole and appropriate interfaces provided between them so as to provide an integrated…
Descriptors: Cataloging, Computers, Libraries, Library Automation
Library Journal, 2005
When Valerie Allen decided she did not want to be a Montessori teacher any longer, she began work on her MLIS. Immediately she learned concepts she could apply to her new job as information specialist for the Department of Energy's (DOE) Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI) at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, TN. While the LIS…
Descriptors: Electronic Libraries, Government Libraries, Information Scientists, Agency Cooperation
Martyn, John – 1970
These notes are intended for working scientists who wish to set up and operate Specialized Information Centers to serve their own specialized areas of science. Their purpose is to set out the different tasks to be performed and the decisions that must be taken, to discuss the problems of Center operation and to suggest some of the solutions. This…
Descriptors: Information Centers, Information Processing, Information Systems, Sciences
Bath Univ. of Technology (England). Univ. Library. – 1973
DISISS (Design of Information Systems in the Social Sciences) is a research project financed by OSTI, which began in January 1971. The objective of the project is to carry out research necessary for the effective design of information systems in the social sciences. The aim of this part of the DISISS project is the application of statistical…
Descriptors: Citations (References), Cluster Analysis, Cluster Grouping, Information Systems
Knudson, Richard L., Ed. – English Record, 1973
Focusing on innovation and experimentation in the language arts, K-16, the articles in this volume of "The English Record" include: "Meeting Our Enemies: Career Education and the Humanities" by S. P. Marland, Jr.; "Hope for Research in English Education" by James Squire; "New York State and Certification by Competency" by Vincent Gazzetta;…
Descriptors: Black Studies, Career Education, Educational Innovation, English Curriculum
Leggate, P.; And Others – 1973
During a 2-year period (1970, 1971) SDI (Selective Dissemination of Information) search profiles were written for 353 biologists and other research workers with a need for biological information in academic, industrial, and government research institutions. At the beginning of the experiment a questionnaire and interview survey was made of the…
Descriptors: Biological Sciences, Biology, Information Dissemination, Information Retrieval
