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Does the Instructor's Experience as a Practitioner Affect the Purpose and Content of the Undergraduate Systems Analysis and Design Course?
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Burns, Timothy J. – Information Systems Education Journal, 2012
This paper reports the results of a survey and follow-up interviews that were administered to instructors of the undergraduate systems analysis and design course, a core course of the Information Systems curriculum. The goal of this research was to learn if the background of the instructor, in terms of industry experience, affects the purpose and…
Descriptors: Teacher Surveys, College Faculty, Interviews, Systems Analysis
A Technique for Evaluating Automatic Term Clustering.
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Dillon, Martin; Caplan, P. – Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 1980
Reexamines the feasibility of automatic thesaurus generation by establishing a framework for analyzing the degree of correspondence between automatically generated thesauri and a thesaurus of the same terms constructed by subject specialists. (Author/FM)
Descriptors: Automatic Indexing, Cluster Analysis, Evaluation, Feasibility Studies
Assessing the Effect of Computer Augmentation on Staff Productivity.
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Bamford, Harold E., Jr. – Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 1979
Describes an operational trial of computer-aided information processing methods conducted by a National Science Foundation program office in an effort to show that staff productivity increases with computer augmentation. (FM)
Descriptors: Computers, Information Processing, Information Systems, Organizational Effectiveness
Developing World Wide Interaction with EURONET.
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Campbell, H. C. – International Library Review, 1979
The existence of EURONET, the European online information network sponsored by the European Economic Community, raises questions as to how non-European countries' access to the on-line information and data systems of Europe will be handled in the future. Its organization, and some of these related questions are discussed. (Author/MBR)
Descriptors: Background, Essays, Information Networks, Information Systems
The Role of a Linking Agent in an Information Center Network.
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Long, Susan; Rawnsley, David – Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 1979
Describes the services and resources of the San Mateo Educational Resources Center (SMERC) and presents the results of a survey of linking agents operating within SMERC contracts, including findings about their organizational settings, educational backgrounds, marketing activities, and perceptions about the usefulness of the service. (FM)
Descriptors: Educational Resources, Information Centers, Information Networks, Information Services
Summary Statistics for Five Years of the MARC Data Base.
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And Others; Williams, Martha E. – Journal of Library Automation, 1979
Presents MARC database statistics for use in planning and processing files, selection of subsets, and estimating file growth rates. Statistics are provided on record length, field tag occurrence, data element length per field tag, and distribution of records by Dewey Decimal Division and Library of Congress class code. (Author/RAA)
Descriptors: Databases, Information Processing, Information Retrieval, Information Systems
The Importance of SDI for Current Awareness in Fields with Severe Scatter of Information.
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Packer, Katherine H.; Soergel, Dagobert – Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 1979
Exploring the use and effectiveness of current awareness (CA) methods, especially selective dissemination of information (SDI) among chemists at Canadian universities, this study focuses on the perceived dispersal of information, use of various CA methods, time spent on CA, perceived success in CA, and CA efficiency. (FM)
Descriptors: Information Dissemination, Information Retrieval, Information Services, Information Systems
School Management Information Systems in Primary Schools
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Demir, Kamile – Turkish Online Journal of Educational Technology - TOJET, 2006
Developments in information technologies have been impacting upon educational organizations. Principals have been using management information systems to improve the efficiency of administrative services. The aim of this research is to explore principals' perceptions about management information systems and how school management information…
Descriptors: School Administration, Management Information Systems, Information Technology, Principals
School Management Information Systems in Primary Schools
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Demir, Kamile – Online Submission, 2006
Developments in information technologies have been impacting upon educational organizations. Principals have been using management information systems to improve the efficiency of administrative services. The aim of this research is to explore principals' perceptions about management information systems and how school management information…
Descriptors: School Administration, Management Information Systems, Information Technology, Principals