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Newton, Whitney – ProQuest LLC, 2019
Schools face increasing pressure to ensure teachers are using data to support and inform their instruction, and the practice of data-based decision making has many positive effects on teacher satisfaction, instruction, and student achievement. Teachers face difficulties in gathering, organizing, and effectively utilizing student data to drive…
Descriptors: Information Management, Information Systems, Information Dissemination, Databases
King, Carlise; Perkins, Victoria – Early Childhood Data Collaborative, 2020
Over the last decade, state efforts to build stronger data infrastructure and integrate data about early childhood services have continued to grow. A stronger data infrastructure supports states in more easily linking data across programs, which in turn makes it easier to analyze and use that data to answer important policy questions. An Early…
Descriptors: Educational Finance, Financial Support, Home Visits, Early Childhood Education
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Burnette, Margaret H. – portal: Libraries and the Academy, 2015
The increasing interdisciplinarity of scientific research creates both challenges and opportunities for librarians. The liaison model may be inadequate for supporting campus research that represents multiple disciplines and geographically dispersed departments. The identification of units, researchers, and projects is a first step in planning and…
Descriptors: Interdisciplinary Approach, Biomedicine, Medical Research, Scientific Research
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Chudagr, Amita; Luschei, Thomas F. – Education Policy Analysis Archives, 2016
The objective of this commentary is to call attention to the feasibility and importance of large-scale, systematic, quantitative analysis in international and comparative education research. We contend that although many existing databases are under- or unutilized in quantitative international-comparative research, these resources present the…
Descriptors: Information Sources, International Education, Comparative Education, Educational Policy
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Busey, Amy; Krumhansl, Ruth; Mueller-Northcott, Julianne; Louie, Josephine; Kochevar, Randy; Krumhansl, Kira; Zetterlind, Virgil – Science Teacher, 2015
Scientific research is undergoing a "big data" revolution, as probes deployed in oceans, the atmosphere, and outer space provide near real-time data streams. As more and more data sets such as Ocean Tracks become available online, opportunities to engage students in the "Next Generation Science Standards" (NGSS Lead States…
Descriptors: Data Collection, Data Analysis, Oceanography, Marine Biology
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Schendel, Diana E.; Bresnahan, Michaeline; Carter, Kim W.; Francis, Richard W.; Gissler, Mika; Grønborg, Therese K.; Gross, Raz; Gunnes, Nina; Hornig, Mady; Hultman, Christina M.; Langridge, Amanda; Lauritsen, Marlene B.; Leonard, Helen; Parner, Erik T.; Reichenberg, Abraham; Sandin, Sven; Sourander, Andre; Stoltenberg, Camilla; Suominen, Auli; Surén, Pål; Susser, Ezra – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2013
The International Collaboration for Autism Registry Epidemiology (iCARE) is the first multinational research consortium (Australia, Denmark, Finland, Israel, Norway, Sweden, USA) to promote research in autism geographical and temporal heterogeneity, phenotype, family and life course patterns, and etiology. iCARE devised solutions to challenges in…
Descriptors: Autism, Epidemiology, International Cooperation, Consortia
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Tosaka, Yuji; Weng, Cathy – College & Research Libraries, 2011
Content-enriched metadata in bibliographic records is considered helpful to library users in identifying and selecting library materials for their needs. The paper presents a study, using circulation data from a medium-sized academic library, of the effect of content-enriched records on library materials usage. The study also examines OPAC search…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Metadata, Bibliographic Databases, Academic Libraries
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Tonmyr, Lil; Jack, Susan – Child Welfare, 2010
A media strategy was developed to disseminate Canadian child maltreatment surveillance data. Print media were systematically searched and 29 articles reporting on the data were retrieved. Using content analysis, the articles were analyzed to assess informational accuracy and to understand how the media framed the issue of maltreatment. This…
Descriptors: Child Abuse, Printed Materials, Content Analysis, Information Dissemination
Shen, Warren H. – ProQuest LLC, 2009
This dissertation studies information extraction (IE), the problem of extracting structured information from unstructured data. Example IE tasks include extracting person names from news articles, product information from e-commerce Web pages, street addresses from emails, and names of emerging music bands from blogs. IE is all increasingly…
Descriptors: Information Retrieval, Access to Information, Data Processing, Pattern Recognition
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Norton, M. Jay – Library Trends, 1999
Knowledge discovery in databases (KDD) revolves around the investigation and creation of knowledge, processes, algorithms, and mechanisms for retrieving knowledge from data collections. The article is an introductory overview of KDD. The rationale and environment of its development and applications are discussed. Issues related to database design…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Automation, Bibliographic Databases, Classification
Lukaš, Mirko; Leškovic, Darko – Online Submission, 2007
This study describes one of possible way of usage ICT in education system. We basically treated educational system like Business Company and develop appropriate model for clustering of student population. Modern educational systems are forced to extract the most necessary and purposeful information from a large amount of available data. Clustering…
Descriptors: Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education, Business, Models
National Comprehensive Center for Teacher Quality, 2008
The National Comprehensive Center for Teacher Quality (TQ Center) designed the Interactive Data Tools to provide users with access to state and national data that can be helpful in assessing the qualifications of teachers in the states and the extent to which a state's teacher policy climate generally supports teacher quality. The Interactive Data…
Descriptors: Teacher Effectiveness, Teacher Qualifications, Teacher Certification, Teacher Recruitment
Leadership, 2007
Education, it seems, is increasingly driven by the numbers. Whether it is measuring student performance or a school district's ability to balance the books, one will find data out there about it. So much data, in fact, that it is difficult to sort through all the numbers to get the needed information. This article describes California's Ed-Data…
Descriptors: Public Education, Educational Finance, Data Collection, Data Analysis
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Goodrum, Abby A.; Rorvig, Mark E.; Jeong, Ki-Tai; Suresh, Chitturi – Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 2001
Proposes methods to utilize image primitives to support term assignment for image classification. Proposes to release code for image analysis in a common tool set for other researchers to use. Of particular focus is the expansion of work by researchers in image indexing to include image content-based feature extraction capabilities in their work.…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Classification, Data Analysis, Databases
Carson, Eugene – CAUSE/EFFECT, 1987
Administrators, faculty, and staff should have electronic access to records needed to perform their jobs, and students should have access to their own records--course registration and addresses. User-directed analysis and reporting are discussed and the security and audit issues are examined. (Author/MLW)
Descriptors: Access to Information, Centralization, College Administration, Data Analysis
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