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Moats, Debbie – 1997
Many family support programs find it difficult to provide evidence of program efficacy to community groups, agencies, and funding sources. This practicum study involved the development and implementation of a management information system (MIS) to meet the needs and goals of a family support program, including the need for program evaluation. The…
Descriptors: Budgeting, Community Support, Database Design, Databases

Mah, Carole; Flanders, Julia; Lavagnino, John – Computers and the Humanities, 1997
Presents two groups of text encoding problems encountered by the Brown University Women Writers Project while using Standard Generalized Markup Language (SGML) to create a database of book transcriptions: dual emendation and correction, and multiple hierarchies. Offers several possible approaches to these encoding problems and analyzes the issues…
Descriptors: Bibliographic Databases, Computer Uses in Education, Data Collection, Data Conversion
Rose, Janet; Godin, Donn – 1991
The Charleston County School District's efforts to increase the percentage of students meeting high school graduation requirements at the appropriate age and the percentage of students who graduate within 6 years of entry into grade 9 require a well-designed plan for monitoring their success. Evaluation of those efforts depends upon the use of…
Descriptors: Change Strategies, Computer System Design, Computer Uses in Education, Data Processing