This appendix describes the Integrated Communications Experiment (ICE), a comprehensive computer software capability developed for the ComField Project. Each major characteristic of the data processing system is treated separately: natural language processing, flexibility, noninterference with the educational process, multipurposeness,…

APEX is a computerized gaming simulation; it is also the name of an interdisciplinary course in environmental problems in urban areas introduced at the School of Health Science, Hunter College of the City University of New York. In the course, students assume the roles of decision makers in both the private and public sectors. They receive data…

A national automated telecommunication system, the Migrant Student Record Transfer System (MSRTS) provides academic and other relevant data on migrant children to participating schools upon request. The system was developed in response to the need for providing timely academic and health information to the schools these children enter as they…

The Washington State Migrant Education Program legally defines migratory children as interstate, intrastate, or formerly migratory. Program goals are intended to serve the legislative mandate that requires establishment of "...programs and projects to meet the special education needs of migratory children of migratory agricultural workers and…

Several reports were considered at the second meeting of the National Commission on New Technological Uses of Copyrighted Works (CONTU). A proposed study to collect data on the present status and extent of photocopying (sponsored by the National Commission on Libraries and Information Science (NCLIS) ) was presented and its eventual usefulness to…

Reports on a project in the tri-county metropolitan Portland, Oregon area designed to help educators answer the questions: "What is to be learned?""How is it to be learned?" and "Has it actually been learned?" Educational goals were produced for use in management and planning, and coded for retrieval from a computer…

A number of critical aspects of educational information system design are discussed. The success of any information system depends largely upon several key decisions that must be made early in the preliminary design phase. The paper attempts to (1) indicate the nature and some of the major implications of these key decisions and (2) provide a…

This report contains an account and analysis of the SCATE (Student Course and Teacher Evaluation) Program which was designed to initiate and assess educational evaluation programs at Bowdoin College, Florida Presbyterian College, Colby Junior College, Rosary College, Central State University, Bethel College, University of Redlands, University of…

Since 1966 the Chemical Society Research Unit in Information Dissemination and Retrieval at the University of Nottingham has been evaluating the use of "Chemical Titles" (CT) and "Chemical-Biological Activities" (CBAC) as current awareness services. Early results of this evaluation led to the Students' Chemical Information…

Part II of the Students' Chemical Information Project (SCIP), designed to spread the use of computer-based information services among research scientists and technologists, contains details of the project operations, statistics, results of questionnaires and research reports from liaison scientists (See LI 002 562 for Part I). Chapter I: Operation…

While most administrators are primarily interested in the economies offered by the extended school year, it is the opportunities for increasing educational quality which should receive primary attention. The knowledge explosion in the past 70 years dictates this focus. There are four basic ways of rescheduling the school year: (1) The staggered…

In illustrating how systems analysis can aid university planning, a report is presented of the early results of the application of systems analysis to problems of planning in the Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto. Analysis is reported of various alternative policies concerning enrollment, curriculum, involvement of teaching, hospitals,…

The project's basic goals were to develop and implement a comprehensive program with a potential for statewide implementation, incorporating career education philosophy, and provide a means for other school districts to assess the worth of career education and develop techniques for implementing their own programs. Product objectives outlined the…

Mathematics and science classes integrated computer science activities into the regular secondary curriculum. This document reports the nature of the computer activities used in conjunction with an algebra II class, a physics class and a chemistry class. A computer programing class was also established as a year-long elective course. Success and…

The document, one in a series to assist in planning procedures for local and State vocational agencies, describes two computer programs, COMENR and VOCEDENR, to be used in secondary enrollment forecasts. The steps in the procedure are: 1) gather data on past public enrollment, new housing trends, census data, and current vocational enrollments and…