The Exploring Engagement Fund provides risk capital for arts nonprofits to experiment with innovative ideas about how to engage diverse Californians. In order to understand the variety of Californians engaged in arts experiences, this guide is intended to support current and future Fund grantees in collecting participant information. Exploring…

In this article, John Forbes, administrative analyst for the 80,000-student Fresno Unified School District in Fresno, and Terrence Young, chief information officer for the 70,000-student Guilford Country Schools in Greensboro, North Carolina, share their strategies for getting staff on board with Web-based data systems. These are the strategies:…

It used to be much easier to get paid by the San Diego Unified School District (SDUSD). A lot easier, that is, if you didn't work there. Saddled with an antiquated computer system and manual, repetitive data entry of time cards, officials at California's second-largest school district discovered the payroll department was mistakenly issuing $1…

In the face of more sophisticated data collection technology, California voters have demonstrated an increasing concern about their own privacy. In response, Assemblyman Cullen has proposed a bill to the state legislature which would require anyone opening an automated information system to send notice to the Secretary of State. This notice would…

THE PURPOSES OF THIS STUDY WERE TO DEVELOP A MODEL FOR COMPARING VOCATIONAL JOB PLACEMENT WITH ENROLLMENT AND TO MAKE RECOMMENDATIONS FOR ITS APPLICATION ON A STATEWIDE BASIS. THE MODEL WAS ESTABLISHED THROUGH SEARCHING LITERATURE, CONSULTING WITH EDUCATORS AND ELECTRONIC DATA PROGRAMERS, AND OBSERVING EXISTING PROGRAMS. IT WAS ESSENTIALLY A DATA…

Activities to date are summarized for the California Education Information System (CEIS), a data processing service which provides county and regional offices with a series of automated applications capable of meeting the majority of standard pupil and business information processing requirements. The following components are included: an outline…

The policy papers included in this package address various facets of the topic of data-based accountability for education in California. Guy Benveniste of the University of California, Berkeley, School of Education explores the underlying issue of accountability and describes the implications of different types of accountability measures. In…

A COMPREHENSIVE PUPIL PERSONNEL AND CURRICULAR DATA PROCESSING SYSTEM WAS DEVELOPED AND DEMONSTRATED FOR USE OF CALIFORNIA HIGH SCHOOLS. THIS SYSTEM WAS DESIGNED TO SERVE GROUPS OF SCHOOL DISTRICTS THROUGH REGIONAL, DATA PROCESSING CENTERS. THE OVERALL SYSTEMS PLAN, THE NECESSARY PROGRAMING ACTIVITIES, AND A TECHNIQUE FOR MASTER CODING WERE…

Since computers are universally accepted in business today, the accounting classroom is the appropriate place to teach their use. A California high school accounting committee's recommendation led to the school's development of a computer processing program within the accounting department. The program's curriculum is described. (CT)

This report documents the second-year progress of the Community College Data Base Team in their efforts to build a geographically based data system for use by college researchers and administrators. The primary purpose of the 1973-74 team effort was to expand the 1972-73 data base by adding internally generated district items, aggregated to the…

This study proposes an information system to gather, coordinate, and evaluate longitudinal data collected periodically from students in sample groups beginning with entry into high school and continuing through young adulthood, i.e., five years post college. Its purpose would be to gain insight into characteristics of the student population, and…

THE STUDY IS CONCERNED WITH THE LINGUISTIC PROBLEM INVOLVED IN TEXT COMPRESSION--EXTRACTING, INDEXING, AND THE AUTOMATIC CREATION OF SPECIAL-PURPOSE CITATION DICTIONARIES. IN SPITE OF EARLY SUCCESS IN USING LARGE-SCALE COMPUTERS TO AUTOMATE CERTAIN HUMAN TASKS, THESE PROBLEMS REMAIN AMONG THE MOST DIFFICULT TO SOLVE. ESSENTIALLY, THE PROBLEM IS TO…

THIS PROJECT SOUGHT TO DEVELOP AN OPERATIONAL "TOTAL" DATA SYSTEM FOR AN INSTITUTE OF HIGHER EDUCATION. THE REPORT SYNTHESIZES MANY PREVIOUS EXPERIENCES IN DATA PROCESSING, IN ORDER TO PRESCRIBE A MANAGEMENT INFORMATION SYSTEM SUITED TO COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES. IT WAS FELT THAT A BROAD BASE, GENERAL PURPOSE INFORMATION SYSTEM WOULD…

Experiences in systems-development for state information systems are summarized for eight pilot-test state agencies, as part of the State Level Information Base project. Attention is directed to the evaluation of information needs; hardware and software choices; survey administration; data organization, storage, and linkages; and staffing…

DATA COLLECTED FROM 15 YEARS OF PSYCHOLOGICAL TESTING UNDER THE APTITUDES RESEARCH PROJECT IN THE DEPARTMENT OF PSYCHOLOGY, UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA, WERE MICROFILMED OR KEYPUNCHED AND MADE AVAILABLE TO EDUCATORS, PSYCHOLOGISTS, AND GRADUATE STUDENT RESEARCHERS. EACH TEST HAD BEEN ADMINISTERED TO ABOUT 600 EXAMINEES. STUDENT HAND-WRITTEN…