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Lilley, Stephen – 1982
This publication provides program planners and others with information and analytical tools for using demographic data in program planning, implementation, and evaluation. The report reviews the importance of demographic data and their relevance to programs and proper implementation of laws, discusses the collection of demographic information by…
Descriptors: Data Collection, Data Interpretation, Demography, Information Utilization
Ginsburg, Sigmund G. – American School and University, 1985
Sophisticated managers know that reams of data cannot take the place of important information. Planning is necessary to ensure that what is being reported in an organization is necessary and useful and that data are not assembled just because the computer makes it possible. (MLF)
Descriptors: Computer Oriented Programs, Information Needs, Information Utilization, Management Information Systems

Teitel, Lee – Journal for Higher Education Management, 1995
A discussion of the use of advisory committees in college and university administration outlines their many potential roles at both program and institutional levels, identifying reasons they are established and often underused. Issues of advisory committee effectiveness are then explored by examining several types of underinvolved and overinvolved…
Descriptors: Advisory Committees, College Administration, Group Membership, Higher Education

Jarvelin, Kalervo – Journal of Information Science, 1988
Discusses the problems associated with using connect time as the basis of user fees for searching numeric online databases, and proposes a methodology for user charge estimation based on query formulation and results. (87 references) (CLB)
Descriptors: Cost Estimates, Information Utilization, Literature Reviews, Models

Joedodibroto, Roehjati; Martono, Andrini – European Journal of Engineering Education, 1987
Specific conditions and information needs of the engineer in Indonesia are described. Much foreign input is applied in development projects resulting in a continuous need for transfer of technology. Most libraries and information services are not adequately equipped to provide for the engineer's information needs. Steps are being taken to help…
Descriptors: Engineering Education, Engineers, Higher Education, Information Needs

Lewis, Karron G. – New Directions for Teaching and Learning, 1991
There are many ways to collect information about college teaching. Many are quick, easy, and unintrusive, and are valuable supplements to the standard source of information, student ratings. A matrix of data needs and corresponding sources of course, instructor, and student information helps refine the information gathering process. (MSE)
Descriptors: College Instruction, Data Collection, Feedback, Higher Education
Lawson, David M. – Currents, 1999
In college and university fundraising, mergers and initial public offerings can create donor-deadlines windows of opportunity during which prospective donors can make tax-favored major gifts. Development officers need to monitor their prospects' holdings for these deadlines. Categories of donor prospects to consider and indicators to watch are…
Descriptors: College Administration, Donors, Economic Climate, Fund Raising

Eraut, Michael – Studies in Higher Education, 1985
A discussion of the relationship between theory and practice in professional continuing education considers the different kinds of professional knowledge (according to its generalizability or explicitness), modes of knowledge (replication, application, interpretation, association), and the contexts of knowledge use. (MSE)
Descriptors: College Role, Educational Needs, Epistemology, Higher Education

Geis, George L. – New Directions for Teaching and Learning, 1991
Conditions that can enhance college teachers' acceptance and productive use of feedback about instruction are outlined, including understanding of the purposes of evaluation, who provides the feedback, the message itself (form, timing, sources, and subsequent messages), characteristics of the recipient, immediate environment, and consequences…
Descriptors: College Faculty, College Instruction, Communication (Thought Transfer), Faculty Evaluation
Illinois State Board of Education, Springfield. Div. of Specialized Education Services. – 1983
This guide for pupil personnel administrators, provides procedures, timelines, resources, and sample statistical tables for conducting a needs assessment to meet the Illinois State Board of Education requirement. Basic recommendation procedures for conducting a pupil personnel services (PPS) needs assessment are identified as follows: (1) organize…
Descriptors: Data Collection, Elementary Secondary Education, Evaluation Methods, Information Utilization

Kaagan, Steve; Smith, Marshall S. – Educational Leadership, 1985
Reviews the Council of Chief State School Officers' effort to establish a nationwide system of educational indicators. Suggests the benefits of such a system. (MCG)
Descriptors: Accountability, Centralization, Data Collection, Educational Assessment
Brown, Mark G. – Performance and Instruction, 1989
Describes a performance technology approach to paperwork reduction for managers that looks at information as a stimulus designed to prompt or initiate a desired behavior or response from the reader. Guidelines for improving performance through the use of information that serves as directions or feedback are given. (LRW)
Descriptors: Administrators, Behavioral Objectives, Feedback, Guidelines

Lenth, Charles S.; Christall, Melodie E. – New Directions for Institutional Research, 1991
Major categories of national higher education data are outlined and descriptions and sources are provided for over 50 databases. Categories include institutional descriptors, enrollments/completions, student demography, student longitudinal data, financial aid, institutional financial support, tuition/fees, faculty/staff salaries and benefits,…
Descriptors: Annotated Bibliographies, Databases, Higher Education, Information Sources
Krepel, Thomas L. – 1990
Guidelines to facilitate the assessment and development of educational leadership decision-making skills are presented in this paper. Included are a review of traditional and contemporary concepts of the decision-making process, identification of appropriate techniques, and an analysis of four contemporary decision-making models by Thompson,…
Descriptors: Decision Making, Educational Administration, Elementary Secondary Education, Information Utilization
Stanley, Patrick A. – 1985
This guide is intended to help bridge the gap between the goal of fitting individuals for gainful and satisfying employment and the realities of the labor market which must provide that employment. It provides occupational program planners with simple suggestions on how to incorporate pertinent information into the planning process at minimal cost…
Descriptors: Information Utilization, Labor Needs, Labor Supply, Needs Assessment