Describes a computer program developed by an assistant principal in Maryland that tracks and analyzes student discipline referrals. It has been helpful in developing an action plan that has reduced referrals to the assistant principal's office. Includes two figures. (MD)

The students in a low-ability first-year classroom of a secondary school use a questionnaire and punched cards to collect and organize data about their classmates. The first five minutes and the first four minutes after the first quarter of an hour of the resulting class discussion are included. (MN)

The preparation of a data tape and users guide is reported. The tape contains about 700 cases with nearly two thousand variables collected over a three-year period as part of a curriculum evaluation study. The student group is the eleven- to fourteen-year-old population that participated in the field test of the BSCS Human Sciences Program.…

Describes the use of Appleworks to maintain classroom records of student scores. Discusses labeling, computing, sums, averages, maximum/minimum scores, and numeric grade, as well as initializing the gradebook and how to enter scores. (JM)

This report describes the development in 1986 of a management information system by the Sacramento City (California) Unified School District for use in high schools. A nine-page attachment, which comprises two-thirds of the report, offers profiles of selected schools drawn from the databases. Data sets of 200 information items, collected from all…

The Vocational Education Data System (VEDS) data base was created as a result of the Vocational Education Amendments of 1976. VEDS statistics were to be collected in the form of state-aggregate data (that is, state-level data is submitted by each state, based upon records and data collected by the state for this and other purposes); and VEDS data,…

Results of the first year's operation of EUREKA (a computerized system to provide current, accurate, and locally relevant labor market and educational information to California high school students and counselors for the purposes of career exploration and decision making) are presented in this report. The general project design is outlined: (1)…

This document represents the first of five components of a project conducted to design a comprehensive information system (termed SYSTEM) for identifying, selecting, and disseminating relevant military curriculum materials to civilian vocational and technical education programs. This particular report identifies, reviews, and analyzes existing…

A project was undertaken to develop a microcomputer program that would allow vocational agriculture instructors and students to enter information concerning a supervised occupational experience program (SOEP) into the computer. From there the program was to assist students to summarize that information from multiple entries and to print it out in…

This document represents the fifth of five components of a project conducted to design a comprehensive information system (termed SYSTEM) for identifying, selecting, and disseminating relevant military curriculum materials to civilian vocational and technical education programs. This particular document suggests the design, operating procedures,…

This South Carolina guide was developed to provide a method for teaching the art of learning while teaching the subject matter of records management. The guide addresses the three domains of learning: psychomotor, cognitive, and affective. It is organized into 10 content units: records management--general; records organization and evaluation…

Reported here is the completed phase 2 of a program designed to develop a comprehensive integrated system that will produce information for planning and administrating Illinois vocational education programs. Phase 2 project activities were intended to further develop and refine the Illinois Vocational Management Information System (MIS) and to…

To provide an effective and available source of data on placement and follow-up of vocational education in Louisiana, a comprehensive follow-up system was designed for collecting information on students in secondary or postsecondary vocational programs from the time they complete or leave with marketable skills until five years following their…

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…