Counseling center efforts to establish and maintain relevant effectiveness in the services they offer, must be based on valid and reliable feedback from critical sources. Record keeping and data collection are the procedures by which this feedback can be acquired if they are designed to answer questions and do not become ends in themselves. A…

A bulk data input processor which is available for the Rapidly Extensible Language (REL) English versions is described. In REL English versions, statements that declare names of data items and their interrelationships normally are lines from a terminal or cards in a batch input stream. These statements provide a convenient means of declaring some…

The need for more and better manpower information is hampered by the lack of adequate occupational data classification systems. The diversity of interests in occupations probably accounts for the absence of consensus regarding either the general outlines or the specific details of a standardized occupational classification system which would…

Encourages business teachers to examine the advantages of implementing a data processing program from the perspectives of career counseling, course objectives, and career education. (TA)

Describes the use of the Apple Macintosh and MULTIPLAN spreadsheet to record and analyze test data. Provides step-by-step instructions on data entry, item difficulty and discrimination calculations, test reliability, score distribution, and graphing of distributions. (JM)

A gas chromatography (GC) mass spectroscopy (MS) system recently developed by Hewlett-Packard (HP-5987 GC/MS/Data System) is described, illustrating the technological advances that have been achieved with the system. Examples of the data processing and output process are provided to demonstrate the capabilities and application of the system to…

Offers figures on what public elementary and secondary schools are spending for attendance services, health services, student body activities, pupil transportation, insurance, and data processing. Nationwide total and per student expenditures for each category and total expenditures by State for each category are presented. (DN)

Describes a flexible, multichannel, highly accurate, digital data acquisition system for use with a microcomputer. Includes a description of instrumentation for computer data acquisition, data acquisition systems, software, uses in the curriculum, library interaction and action, and use in a mechanical engineering laboratory. (DS)

An analysis of the codification practices of bibliographic descriptions reveals a multiplicity of ways to solve the problem of the special processing of certain characters within a bibliographic element. (Author)

To guide others interested in establishing a computer/data processing program of studies, the history of an existing program is outlined and several specific suggestions proposed. (AG)

Research supported in part by a U.S. Office of Education grant (67-04143-0).

Condensed from "Childhood Education, Volume 45 (December 1968), 213-18.

The report is a collection of internal reports dealing with the library management. The preliminary design details the anticipated system. The structure of data base reveals the implementation scheme on an IBM 2314 Disk Facility. Various algorithms are presented to document the actual system conditioned by using XPL and OS/MVT/HASP. Finally a…