| Winter 1999 |
| University of Oregon - Eugene |
NEWS FLASH!
We are pleased to announce that
the U. S. Department of Education has awarded a new
five-year contract to operate the ERIC Clearinghouse on
Educational Management at the University of Oregon through 2003.
Website Adds Content, New Features
If you've been visiting our website over the past year or so, you've seen the many enhancements and additions we've made. Dissemination of information is our mission, and the World Wide Web has now become a primary means for dispensing this information to our users. To help familiarize you with all the new areas of our website, we present here an overview of our site's information resources.
Online Directory of Organizations in Educational Management
We printed ten editions of the Directory of Organizations
in Educational Management over the past twenty-five years.
Now we've converted the Directory of Organizations exclusively to an electronic
format that is being continually revised.
Guiding you to sources of information on policy and management of
elementary and secondary schools, this online
Directory includes profiles of more than 140 organizations, with more being added
each week. The Directory supplies names, addresses, telephone and fax numbers,
missions, subject areas, publication topics, and services, all continually updated
through ongoing contact with the organizations.
Fourteen types of organizations are represented in the Directory, including
research organizations, evaluation centers, OERI regional laboratories and centers, policy research centers, study councils, training institutes, and others.
Each profile includes a link to the organization's website if it has one.
Résumés of In-Process Documents
Up to six months can elapse between the time we index and
abstract a document and the date that document's résumé appears on
a searchable CD-ROM or an online ERIC database search service.
Now you can search between 800 and 1,100 résumés of recently processed,
cutting-edge documents and journal articles before they appear in the
ERIC database by visiting our In-Process Abstracts page.
Although this collection of in-process documents has been
available on our website for more than a year, last summer's revamping of
our website gave us the opportunity to reorganize the way we make
these abstracts available online. The new, streamlined system is
completely automated with new résumés
added every week. We delete them once they appear on CD-ROM.
Trends and Issues
At this rapidly growing section of the website, you can scan
summaries and analyses of major issues, trends, and innovations in the area of
educational management. For each "hot topic," you can browse among a
discussion of up to 5,000 words, a 500-word summary, references, and a
set of resources that include links to other sites.
Among the most popular of the fifteen issues currently available
are Role of the School Leader, Educational Reform, Social and
Economic Context, Educational Governance, and School Organization.
Much work has gone into expanding this area, and it is now the
second most visited section after our search page. We plan to revise each trend
at least semiannually as new developments occur.
Links to Other Resources
We maintain a carefully selected list of links to other organizations
and resources, especially within the U.S. Department of Education. The
menu consists of links to other ERIC Clearinghouses, adjunct clearinghouses, support components, ERIC database search sites, and other education sites and indexes.
There are also scores of links to publishers of journals and books
in educational management.
Online Publications Catalog
You can browse or search our catalog, which includes detailed
information on every one of our publications. Through the catalog, searches of
best-selling, most recent, and forthcoming publications are possible. ED
numbers link directly to the ERIC Database record so you can read the
ERIC abstracts and other information about the publications.
Our publications catalog is linked directly to our inventory and
sales system for current reporting of availability and pricing. Soon you will
be able to order documents online through our secure server using
Visa and MasterCard.
Full-Text Availability
Electronic versions of many publications, such as
ERIC Digests, Research Roundups, and several
books are available free of charge to website visitors in our text of publications section. Introductions, prefaces,
forewords, and sample chapters of current books can be downloaded.
Several older books have been converted into Adobe Acrobat files,
which you can download or view directly in a web browser free of charge.
When this newsletter went to press, ten publications had been converted.
After making an out-of-print monograph, Principals: How To Train,
Recruit, Select, Induct, and Evaluate Leaders for America's
Schools, available, several hundred copies were downloaded.
Other publications, such as Value Searches and Trends and Issues
papers, are also available in Acrobat format.
Acquisitions Information
In another section of the website, authors of material on
educational management are invited and shown how to participate in building
the ERIC database. Authors of books, research reports, speeches, case
studies, lesson plans, manuals, and other materials are invited to submit
documents to ERIC for possible addition to the database. This
Clearinghouse, of course, acquires and processes materials on educational policy,
governance, management, and leadership.
There is a link to a Reproduction Release Form (available from
any ERIC component or online at http://ericfac.piccard.csc.com/submitting.html) that the author
or publisher must fill out before a document can be processed.
To submit a document on a topic in our subject area,
send two legible copies along with a Reproduction
Release Form to the Clearinghouse.
You Can Now Order ERIC Documents Online
Online delivery of the full text of recent ERIC documents is now
available through the ERIC Document Reproduction Service (EDRS).
The EDRS website, located at http://edrs.com, offers the chance to
search the ERIC database from your desktop and quickly order the electronic
documents of your choice.
About 92 percent of all abstracted ERIC documents are available via
the EDRS website, which can be accessed through Netscape Navigator
or Internet Explorer version 3.0 or higher. All available documents
have been cleared for copyright.
Online users can choose among three document formats: paper,
microfiche, and PDF (Adobe Acrobat).
Purchasing ERIC documents merely requires the use of a
credit card. American Express, Discover, MasterCard, and Visa are all
accepted. A deposit account can also be opened through EDRS.
If you request a document in PDF form, it will be delivered within
three to five business days. EDRS will notify you via email, at which point
you can download the document and view it using the popular Adobe
Acrobat Reader software.
If you request a PC (paper copy) or MF (microfiche) of a
document, EDRS will ship the order via UPS Ground. You can expect to
receive your order in seven to twelve business days. Rush delivery is also
available. For more information, visit FAQ's
at the EDRS website.
"Hot topics" is another easy-to-use feature of the EDRS website. You
can browse or download annotated bibliographies of documents
categorized by subject and developed with advice and assistance from the ERIC
Clearinghouses. The documents in this section are updated quarterly in
response to the demands dictated by the users.
For service information or any questions, call 1-800-443-3742,
or email EDRS at: service@edrs.com.
New 'ERIC Digests' Available
Six new titles have recently been added to the
ERIC Digest series:
119. School Productivity
120. Teacher Morale
121. Creating a Learning Organization
122. Mistakes Educational Leaders Make
123. Implementing Looping
124. Whole-School Reform
Two pages in length, ERIC Digests present concise information in a
question-and-answer format followed by a list of references.
Although there is no charge for single copies of
Digest titles, a postage/handling fee of $3.00 is
required to cover the Clearinghouse's expenses. This fee is waived if (1)
you enclose a stamped, self-addressed envelope, or (2) you order other
materials from the Clearinghouse for which there is a charge.
In addition to being available in paper copy from the
Clearinghouse, the full texts of Digests 78-124 are posted on the ERIC/CEM website.
Spanish Translations
We now make Spanish translations of several ERIC
Digests available on our website.
The translating was done by the staff of the Latin
American Center for Development, Education, and Culture at
the Universidad de Playa Ancha, in Valparaiso, Chile. These
new Digests appear on our site as rapidly as the Center translates
them for us.
While print copies are not available from the
Clearinghouse, the Center distributes over 2,000 copies to educational
sites in South America.
The following titles are retrievable from the site:
86. Manejo de Riesgo
91. Liderazgo Para La Cultura Escolar
105. Las Estrategias de un Lider
106. Pueden los Recortes no Afectar la Viabilidad de los Programas Escolares
107. Liderazgo Etico
109. Mejora de la Escuela Mediante Información
122. Errores Que Cometen los Líderes Educacionales
'Go for the Goal' Helps Students Set Goals
How can teachers and administrators help students make their hopes
of a bright future a reality? Go for the Goal: The Dan O'Brien
GoalSetting Program, a new product offered through the Clearinghouse's
Dan O'Brien Education Program, is a curriculum that helps students set
concrete goals that will assist them in transforming their dreams into reality.
Written by Patricia and Stephen Stolp,
Go for the Goal focuses on students from grades 3 to 6 and
is inspired by Dan O'Brien's success in winning a gold medal in the
1996 Olympics. Dan credits his success to the goal-setting strategies he
learned in school.
The program's philosophy rests on the idea that success begins
with knowing where you want to go, and goalsetting provides a concrete
path for that journey.
The curriculum features five goalsetting lesson plans that start
by teaching students what goals are. Students are then guided through the
process of setting short- and long-term goals in the three areas of
physical fitness, academics, and citzenship/community. The focus is not on
students necessarily achieving their goals, but on learning the
goalsetting process so that they can use those skills throughout their lives.
The booklet is part of a packet that includes master copies of
handouts and a set of goal cards and stickers.
The program is designed not only to teach students goalsetting
skills, but also to offer parents and other adults in the student's life an opportunity to show support for the student.
The Stolps offer teachers detailed, clearly written lesson plans that at
the same time give instructors flexibility in deciding the length of the
program and the activities they wish to include. Teachers can illustrate the lesson
plans with several inspirational stories of people who achieved success
through setting goals.
The Clearinghouse created the Dan O'Brien Education Program in
1993 as a special project to inspire young people to gain the most from
their education.
Richly illustrated with photos of Dan competing in the decathlon,
the curiculum packet is available for a price that covers the cost of
printing. For a copy of Go for the Goal: The
Dan O'Brien GoalSetting Program, send $5.00 (plus $4.00 S&H) payable
to ERIC/University of Oregon, or fax a purchase order to 541-346-2334.
Go for the Goal: The Dan O'Brien Goal-Setting Program
 by Patricia and Stephen Stolp. 1999
ISBN:0-86552-143-3
vi + 18 pages · $5.00. Code: EDOGFG
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