This report describes a technique for establishing relative priorities among policy issues that have been systematically identified in and extracted from written documents. The method involves assigning values to five factors that affect an issue's priority. These factors are: uncertainty, or the degree to which information is lacking; imminence, or the degree to which responses must be made quickly; the probability of change in the policies or practices affected by the issue; the scope of the change; and sensitivity to information, or the degree to which new information can alter decisions. Each factor is given values on a scale from 1 to 3 (low to high degree of impact), and the values are simply multiplied by each other to provide a score. The report reviews the background to the development of the technique, discusses briefly the identification of policy issues, describes the reasoning behind selection of the factors incorporated in the technique, considers modification of the technique by weighting critical factors, comments on assessing the values to be assigned to the factors, provides two examples of application of the method, and notes strengths and weaknesses of the process. An appendix provides further information on the system for identifying and prioritizing policy issues as developed by the Statistical Analysis Group in Education. (PGD)