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Download full textJones, Dennis P. – 1982
Data and information needs of college administrators are discussed, along with the uses of information to support decisionmaking. Difficulties in applying information technology to the administration of higher education are briefly reviewed. Data and information are discussed both in definitional and functional terms. Data are defined as either…
Descriptors: College Administration, Data Analysis, Decision Making, Higher Education
Bernhardt, Victoria L. – 1994
This book describes how schools can develop and utilize portfolios as frameworks for evaluating school reform. The portfolio is a nonthreatening self-assessment tool that exhibits a school's goals, progress, achievement, and vision for improvement. Chapter 1 examines the school portfolio as an effective and positive, ongoing monitoring system that…
Descriptors: Educational Assessment, Educational Improvement, Educational Objectives, Elementary Secondary Education
Lehming, Rolf, Ed.; Kane, Michael, Ed. – 1981
This book deals with studies of how new ideas, materials, or technologies can be used to improve elementary and secondary schools. Ernest House examines knowledge use in educational innovation from the technological perspective, which sees teaching as a technique that can be analyzed by subdividing it into its components; the political…
Descriptors: Change Agents, Change Strategies, Educational Change, Educational Improvement
Evans, L. – 1973
A study was conducted of the International Information Service in Physics, Electrotechnology, Computers, and Control (INSPEC) selective dissemination of information (SDI) user profile generation. Five degrees of user involvement in the generation of profiles were investigated ranging from having the user provide only a statement of subject…
Descriptors: Databases, Evaluation, Indexing, Information Needs
Heim, Kathleen M. – 1975
The use, history, and role of machine-readable data base technology is discussed. First the development of data base technology is traced from its beginnings as a special resource for science and technology to its broader use in universities, with descriptions of some specific services. Next the current status of mechanized information services in…
Descriptors: College Libraries, Databases, Higher Education, Information Centers
Lavin, Richard J. – 1974
Despite the development of the Educational Resources Information Center (ERIC), strategies for bringing the capacities of educational research and development to local educational agencies have been largely ignored. This report suggests the need for "linking" strategies to bridge the gap, and proposes how they might be implemented.…
Descriptors: Delivery Systems, Diffusion, Educational Innovation, Educational Research
Cuadra, Carlos A., Ed.; And Others – 1974
Descriptions and appraisals of significant recent trends and developments in the field of information science are presented. The individual chapters deal with the following topics: (1) information needs and uses, (2) design and evaluation of information systems, (3) an economist's view of information, (4) document description and representation,…
Descriptors: Databases, Documentation, Economics, Education
