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Data Quality Campaign, 2014
District and state data systems are constructed to ensure that individuals can access only the data that are appropriate for their role. Still, questions from the public about how these data systems work and how student privacy is protected have been increasing. A recurring concern is the feared existence of a "permanent record"--a…
Descriptors: Data Collection, Student Records, Data Processing, Access to Information
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Rees, Malcolm – Journal of Institutional Research, 2014
This paper reports on progress to date with a project underway in New Zealand involving the extraction of data from multiple government agencies that is then combined into one comprehensive longitudinal integrated dataset and made available to trial participants in a way never previously thought possible. The dataset includes school leaver…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Data Collection, Data Analysis, Data Processing
Kommers, Piet, Ed.; Issa, Tomayess, Ed.; Issa, Theodora, Ed.; McKay, Elspeth, Ed.; Isias, Pedro, Ed. – International Association for Development of the Information Society, 2016
These proceedings contain the papers and posters of the International Conferences on Internet Technologies & Society (ITS 2016), Educational Technologies (ICEduTech 2016) and Sustainability, Technology and Education (STE 2016), which have been organised by the International Association for Development of the Information Society and…
Descriptors: Conferences (Gatherings), Foreign Countries, Internet, Educational Technology
Kang, ByungHoon; Wilensky, Robert – 2001
This paper describes a model of self-administering data. In this model, a declarative description of how a data object should behave is attached to the object, either by a user or by a data input device. A widespread infrastructure of self-administering data handlers is presumed to exist; these handlers are responsible for carrying out the…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Data Processing, Electronic Libraries, Information Management
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Caplan, Priscilla – Public-Access Computer Systems Review, 1995
Discusses the 1995 OCLC/NCSA Metadata Workshop that met to define a standard set of data elements for describing network-accessible information resources. These document data elements had to be simple enough for authors and publishers to use, to facilitate discovery and retrieval, and to be useful as a basis for descriptive cataloging. (JKP)
Descriptors: Access to Information, Cataloging, Computer Networks, Data
Wilkinson, David; Meyer, Allan – 1992
Distributive Information Systems for Campuses (DISC) is a project to increase the data access and information generating capabilities of schools of the Austin (Texas) Independent School District by decentralizing data manipulation functions, while maintaining centralized data processing of major applications. The project means that campuses will…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Budgeting, Campuses, Computer Managed Instruction
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Johnston, George H.; Kristovich, Sharon A. R. – New Directions for Community Colleges, 2000
Examines how one community college has developed a national Bellwether Award-winning data-driven decision-making process that uses its institutional research staff to make the transition from data to information. Characterizes some of the data and resulting information that might be useful to department chairs. Identifies issues and concerns that…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Community Colleges, Data Processing, Decision Making
New York State Education Dept., Albany. State Archives and Records Administration. – 1991
This reports provides local governments with guidelines and suggestions for selecting a Records Management Officer to develop, organize, and direct a records management program. Such a program is described as an over-arching, continuing, administrative effort that manages recorded information from its initial creation to its final disposition.…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Administrator Role, Administrator Selection, Administrators
Petrides, Lisa A.; Nodine, Thad R. – 2003
This monograph presents a set of emerging theories, along with current practices and recommendations, that focus on the effective management of knowledge in educational settings. It provides a set of simple designs for linking people, processes, and technologies, and discusses how organizations can promote policies and practices that help people…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Data Processing, Decision Making, Decision Support Systems
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
Bosworth, Michael – CAUSE/EFFECT, 1995
The University of Massachusetts (UMass) approach to rapid development of an information warehouse to meet needs for executive information, decision support, and general management reporting is described. Logical, management, and technological infrastructure challenges are discussed. The approach taken, which delivers summary data first before…
Descriptors: Access to Information, College Administration, Computer Software Development, Data Processing
International Association for Development of the Information Society, 2012
The IADIS CELDA 2012 Conference intention was to address the main issues concerned with evolving learning processes and supporting pedagogies and applications in the digital age. There had been advances in both cognitive psychology and computing that have affected the educational arena. The convergence of these two disciplines is increasing at a…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Persistence, Academic Support Services, Access to Computers