ERIC Number: ED292458
Record Type: Non-Journal
Publication Date: 1987-Dec
Pages: 33
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Computer-Assisted Registration and Student Statistics Reporting System.
Wilson, G. Robert
This report describes the development and evaluation of a computer-assisted, student-interactive registration program that was designed for a community school in southeastern Florida which offers courses in the curricular areas of adult basic education, GED, adult high school, business and office education, home economics, industrial education, marketing, public service, life-long learning, and education for personal improvement. The system was also designed to provide statistical information. Although the median time of 7.25 minutes for adult students to enter data into the system was significantly longer than the 5.3 minute median time for hand entry of data, the total mean registration time was reduced from 14.4 to 14.1 minutes. The shortest individual computer time was 2.35 minutes, and the longest was 25.75, with a 23.4 minute range. The reason for this broad range was a lack of keyboarding skills, especially on the part of older males in manual-skill occupations, and unemployed older females. Responses to a brief online attitude survey were overwhelmingly positive, with 97% of the students reporting that the program was easy to use, they liked it, and they thought that it should be continued. Administrative personnel were similarly positive in their evaluations. The text is supplemented by three figures and four tables, and a four-item bibliography is provided. Five appendices provide survey data and other program information. (Author/EW)
Publication Type: Dissertations/Theses - Practicum Papers
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Audience: Practitioners
Language: English
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