CAMPUS is composed of 4 basic elements. The central element is a computer-based simulation model that is designed to estimate the resource implications of alternative administrative and educational plans and policies. A planning, programming and budgeting system is used to integrate the simulation model into the formal planning and budgeting…

Long-range planning involves the establishment of educational objectives within a rational philosophy, the design of activities and programs to meet stated objectives, the organization and allocation of resources to implement programs, and the analysis of results in terms of the objectives. Current trends of educational growth and complexity…

The primary outcome of any information feedback system must be data for the classroom teacher. For this reason, a system's value has to be measured in terms of its usefulness to the teacher in making instructional decisions. A report should contain only data that the teacher needs and should be produced in an understandable format. User feedback…

Volume 3 contains supporting appendixes of a three-volume study designed to evaluate the need for new labor market information. The study also sought to improve methods for making better use of currently collected statistical and administrative data. The appendixes support Volume 1's chapter 2 "A Flexible Data Retrieval System" and chapter 3 "Data…

The activities of the Information and Documentation Center (IDC) at the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, Sweden are presented in this annual report for the fiscal year 1972-1973. The IDC is a research project on computer-based information retrieval funded by the Swedish Council for Scientific Information and Documentation and the Office…

Librarians discuss the library use of computers without concerning themselves with the technical aspects of computer software or hardware at this Library Automation Research and Consulting (LARC) Association institute. The first paper, "State of the Art Review," examines some of the fundamental problems of automated serials control, and…

The final report of the Utah project documents the completion of activities directed at filling the objectives listed in the continuation proposal for the 1972-73 year submitted to the National Institute of Education. (The interim report covering the period from July 1970 to June 1972 is ED 069 327.) Objective one was the establishment of an…

The System for Trenton's Educational Planning (STEP), a set of procedures for strategic planning, is described. The background to the project and the desired goals which led to STEP are reviewed, and the major components of the annual planning cycle, including assessment, base case planning, policy formulation, project design, simulation of…

A series of observations is made regarding the potential impact of the Remotely Accessible Management System (RAMS) upon the administrative structure of the Pontiac, Michigan City School System. Nine major results of the district wide needs assessment are reported, and evidence is advanced to support the conclusion that modern educational…

The Montgomery County, Maryland Public Schools, working with Operations Research, Incorporated, developed a Pupil Master File (PLMF). PLMF is one of the several applications included within the Pupil Subsystem of the district's overall computerized School Information System. The PLMF is designed to provide: 1) a master file which enables users to…

GLURP is a script-writing language constructed to suit the purposes of the Information System for Vocational Decisions (ISVD). Scripts tell the computer what to say and how to act; they allow the computer to interact with whoever is using the system. Teachers, counselors, etc. wishing to structure the learning of their students and clients need to…

The author discusses the impact of the "computer revolution" on the field of rhetoric and public address in terms of the potential applications of computer methods to rhetorical problems. He first discusses the computer as a very fast calculator, giving the example of a study that probably would not have been undertaken if the calculations had had…

This document consists of unrevised lecture notes for the first half of a 20-week in-house graduate course at Rand Corporation. The chapter headings are: (1) Histograms and descriptive statistics; (2) Measures of dispersion, distance and goodness of fit; (3) Using JOSS for data analysis; (4) Binomial distribution and normal approximation; (5)…

The accounting department at the University of Arizona, faced with numerous sections of introductory accounting, full classrooms, testing periods spread over two days, and a shortage of clerical help, evolved this testing program for the course in introductory accounting. Two objective multiple choice tests are constructed which sample different…

AN INVESTIGATION WAS MADE OF SOME ENTIRELY NEW INPUT-OUTPUT DEVICES DESIGNED TO SOLVE SOME FUNCTIONAL AND ECONOMIC PROBLEMS THAT ARE PRESENT IN EXISTING COMPUTER-CONTROLLED INSTRUCTION EQUIPMENT. THREE FORMS OF MANIPULATION PAD WERE STUDIED. INFORMATION ABOUT SPECIALLY PREPARED OBJECTS PLACED ON THE FLAT SURFACE OF THE PAD WAS SUPPLIED TO A…