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Halpern, Gerald – Education Canada, 1971
The Management and Planning System (MAPS), designed to provide a computer-based information storage and retrieval system to aid school board decision makers, is described. (DB)
Descriptors: Computer Oriented Programs, Decision Making, Educational Planning, Governing Boards
Blakley, Jim – 1991
NextStep is an IBM compatible, computer-assisted learning system to help users explore and reality test their tentative career plans and bring their career decision to a more real and community-oriented level. The NextStep system assumes that the user is literate and has at least one tentative occupational goal. The system is based on a…
Descriptors: Adults, Career Counseling, Career Exploration, Career Information Systems
Watson, Cicely – 1973
The survey reported on in this document addressed itself to discovering what kinds of quantitative models have been developed and implemented for educational decisionmaking during 1965-72, and what planning questions they are intended to answer; where these models have been implemented and to what extent they are being used; and the cost of such…
Descriptors: Administrators, Boards of Education, College Administration, Computer Oriented Programs
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Lyons, Peter; Doueck, Howard J.; Koster, Andrew J.; Witzky, Melissa K.; Kelly, Patricia L. – Child Welfare, 1999
Describes implementation of a computerized version of the Child Welfare League of America's Child Well-Being Scales by a family services agency in southern Ontario. Reviews results obtained from 172 families to illustrate the potential for using computerized risk assessment as an aid in clinical, supervisory, and management decision-making…
Descriptors: Administration, Child Welfare, Children, Computer Oriented Programs
Sheehan, Bernard S. – 1982
Ideas that have been developed in the decision support systems (DSS) literature that seem particularly relevant to institutional research, planning, and analysis (IRPA) are reviewed. In addition, a survey of practitioners in Canadian universities that provides new information on the rapidly changing current state of information technology,…
Descriptors: College Administration, College Planning, Computer Oriented Programs, Decision Making
Hoffman, Benjamin B. – 1981
Forecasting models for maximizing postsecondary futures and applications of the model are considered. The forecasting of broad human futures has many parallels to human futures in the field of medical prognosis. The concept of "exasperated negative" is used to refer to the suppression of critical information about a negative future with…
Descriptors: Career Choice, College Choice, Computer Oriented Programs, Databases
Stich, Judith, Ed. – 1980
Proceedings of the 1980 Financial Measures Conference are presented. Papers and authors are as follows: "Ratio Analysis in Higher Education" (John Minter); "Computerized Application of Financial Assessment Technology" (Daniel Updegrove and Stephen D. Campbell); "The Uses and Utility of HEGIS Financial Data" (Loyd…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Accountability, College Administration, College Choice
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Carmo, Mafalda, Ed. – Online Submission, 2015
We are delighted to welcome you to the International Conference on Education and New Developments 2015-END 2015, taking place in Porto, Portugal, from 27 to 29 of June. Education, in our contemporary world, is a right since we are born. Every experience has a formative effect on the constitution of the human being, in the way one thinks, feels and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Development, Educational Change, Educational Trends