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Perrotta, Carlo – Learning, Media and Technology, 2013
This paper contends that powerful techniques to manipulate data, enabled by technological and economic developments, can be easily co-opted to serve the restrictive frameworks of hyper-controlling, managerial accountability that characterise current cultures of summative assessment in education. In response to these challenges, research is…
Descriptors: Literacy, Research Needs, Barriers, Performance Factors
Groff, Warren – 1981
The basic principles of market analysis are examined in this paper especially as they relate to institutional planning. Introductory material presents background information, including: (1) a description of two projects undertaken to implement modern management techniques at small colleges; (2) an examination of three marketing philosophies; and…
Descriptors: College Planning, Data Collection, Management Information Systems, Marketing

Hurley, Douglas E. – College and University, 1981
A procedure called "Services/Requirements Analysis" is proposed as a means of improving input to institutional management information systems. The procedure profiles the office's information needs and limitations and identifies benefit groups, all according to user perceptions and not the assumptions of the technological community. (MSE)
Descriptors: Data Collection, Enrollment, Higher Education, Man Machine Systems
Lawrence, Ben – New Directions for Higher Education, 1979
The rising demand for accountability has had a great influence on the design and use of management information systems. The purposes of accountability, needs assessment, and program evaluation would be well served if a set of indlcators could include information about the outcomes of higher education. (MLW)
Descriptors: Accountability, Data Collection, Higher Education, Information Utilization

Climaco, Carmo – Educational Review, 1992
The model of performance indicators for educational assessment in Portugal includes context; physical, human, technological, and financial resources; functions; and results. Indicators need to partake of the information systems in schools whereby teachers and administrators gain a better understanding of their own processes and planning…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Data Collection, Educational Assessment, Educational Change
Varty, James W. – 1983
Prepared for cooperative education placement and career service professionals, this paper considers the applications of microcomputers in the development of a comprehensive management information system (MIS) for cooperative education programs. After noting the complicated information needs of cooperative education and common weaknesses of current…
Descriptors: Computer Programs, Cooperative Education, Data Analysis, Data Collection
Rutledge, Juli G.; Kartis, Alexia M. – Business Officer, 1984
The need for information controls for college records management programs and the elements of program organization, planning, and management are discussed. Conditions at institutions that indicate a flaw in information control are identified, along with the benefits of a sound records management program. The management of an information and…
Descriptors: College Administration, Data Collection, Higher Education, Information Processing
White, George T., Jr. – 1985
The paper examines factors involved in applying microcomputer technologies to special education administration. The emergence of the "integrated electronic office" in which student records are stored so as to be available for immediate access is described, as is the complete electronic student record containing all programmatic information on each…
Descriptors: Computer Managed Instruction, Data Collection, Disabilities, Elementary Secondary Education
Hurley, Douglas E.; Lipp, Mark E. – CAUSE/EFFECT, 1980
It is recognized that growing management information systems will require increased user involvement in acquiring, maintaining, and manipulating essential institutional data. A technique called Service/Requirements Analysis has been developed for incorporating user input into system design and development. (MSE)
Descriptors: College Administration, Computer Oriented Programs, Data Analysis, Data Collection

Clemson, Barry – Journal of Educational Administration, 1980
The proper function of the computer is as a filter to suppress irrelevant data and highlight critical data, to make short-term projections, to display the dynamics of system interactions, and to allow managers and teachers to interact with models of the system. Outlines the components of such a system. (Author/IRT)
Descriptors: Computer Managed Instruction, Computers, Data Collection, Educational Administration

Hackman, Judith Dozier – Research in Higher Education, 1983
Seven institutional research maxims based on research and theory about how people cognitively process information are discussed: more may not be better; augment humans with models; chunk data wisely; know decision-makers; heuristics are not always helpful; arrange tables by patterns; and accept negative evidence and new hypotheses. (Author/MLW)
Descriptors: Bias, Data Analysis, Data Collection, Decision Making
Hollander, T. Edward – 1975
Perspectives concerning data collection in postsecondary education management and planning are considered. It is suggested that one of the dangers in data collection operations is collecting data without knowing why. It is argued that unless one knows in advance what is being measured and the purposes of measurement, data should not be collected.…
Descriptors: Accountability, College Planning, Data Collection, Databases
Quimbita, Grace – 1989
Student tracking systems are enabling increasing numbers of community colleges to respond to external demands for accountability with tangible measurements of student progress and institutional outcomes. Several recent trends in marketing, accountability, communications with students, and internal competition for resources have prompted interest…
Descriptors: Accountability, Community Colleges, Data Collection, Evaluation Criteria

Heydinger, Richard B. – New Directions for Institutional Research, 1980
The conditions facing postsecondary education during the 1980s, it is suggested, call for institutional planning styles that are comprehensive, systematic, public, regular, and expansive. The formal democratic style is described as a comprehensive planning process that requires all departments to submit their plans to the college. (Author/MLW)
Descriptors: Administrative Organization, Budgeting, College Planning, Data Analysis
Georgia State Dept of Education, Atlanta. Div. of Public Library Services. – 1988
This document comprises the recommendations of a 13-member Paperwork Reduction Task Force appointed by Georgia's State Superintendent of Schools, in response to concern by educators and the public that the Quality Basic Education Act (QBE) had created a substantial increase in paperwork, particularly for teachers. The task force of teachers,…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Bureaucracy, Data Collection, Elementary Secondary Education
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