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Peer reviewedYoung, David W. – Child Welfare, 1974
This paper describes one child care agency's use of a management information system to provide data swiftly, accurately, and in a usable form. (ST)
Descriptors: Agencies, Child Care, Data Collection, Databases
Peer reviewedBartolomeo, Paul A.; Galamaga, Donald P. – AEDS Journal, 1974
The vocational educational module of the Rhode Island Educational Management Information System is a data base that is an ongoing system that has been designed both to grow and to be modified to meet the needs of local and State administrators in the management of vocational education within Rhode Island. (Author)
Descriptors: Computer Oriented Programs, Databases, Information Processing, Management Information Systems
Download full textPodell, Harold J. – 1969
A subset of data base management techniques for the hardware/software functions necessary to support a management information system are discussed. Seven basic dimensions of data base design are: (1) data base life span, (2) logical record growth, (3) record content growth, (4) data set organization, (5) linkages, (6) design criteria and (7)…
Descriptors: Computers, Data Processing, Databases, Information Processing
Gibbs, Gordon L. – 1972
Proposed training procedures and materials, and participants' questions on the use of the Southwest Regional Laboratory's (SWRL) student monitoring system data base in the Instructional Management System (IMS) are described. The training sessions were undertaken because IMS Version 3 requires classroom teachers to use special materials and…
Descriptors: Computer Programs, Data Processing, Databases, Information Processing
Byers, Maureen – 1975
The Information Exchange Procedures (IEP) developed by the National Center for Higher Education Management Systems (NCHEMS) are a set of standard definitions and procedures for collecting information about disciplines and student degree programs, outcomes of instructional programs, and general institutional characteristics. A fundamental purpose…
Descriptors: Costs, Curriculum, Databases, Decision Making
Wolfe, Howard; Foote, Thomas – 1972
Computer routines to summarize data and generate reports from weekly log records submitted by teachers participating in the Southwest Regional Laboratory's communications skills monitoring program are described. Written in Univac FORTRAN V, Communications Skills 1, Weekly Log Summary, Revision 1 (CS-1-WLSR1) displays information by student group,…
Descriptors: Communication Skills, Computer Programs, Data Processing, Databases
McEwen, Hazel E., Ed. – 1974
Recent technological advances in computers and communications make possible the integration of data systems and the exchange of data among them on an expanding scale. However, the full effect of these advances cannot be realized unless the need for uniform understanding of the common information (data elements) and its expression in data systems…
Descriptors: Administration, Computer Programs, Conference Reports, Conferences
McManus, John F. – 1972
The automated identification of students as they progress through an instructional program is described as an essential capability of the Southwest Regional Laboratory's (SWRL) Instructional Management System (IMS). Performance characteristics of procedures for linking data to individual students (whose records are maintained by IMS) are…
Descriptors: Computer Programs, Data Processing, Databases, Design
PDF pending restorationGibbs, Gordon L. – 1972
During the 1971-72 pilot test of the Southwest Regional Laboratory's (SWRL) Instructional Management System (IMS), three alternative procedures were used to gather data within the classroom, transmit those data to SWRL for processing, and send IMS output to the appropriate recipients in the schools. ComSys 3--one of the three…
Descriptors: Computer Programs, Data, Data Processing, Databases
Lewis, S. G. – 1970
This report begins with an educational administrator's view of an information system (i.e., data processing applications) and his strategy for system improvement. The document then moves to a broadly defined view of a district's information system in terms of information system dimensions and the problems normally addressed by a system improvement…
Descriptors: Administration, Administrators, Budgeting, Computers
Council of the Great City Schools, Washington, DC. – 1973
This document examines the design and structure of PMIS (Planning and Management Information System), an information system that supports the decisionmaking process of executive management in local school districts. The system is designed around a comprehensive, longitudinal, and interrelated data base. It utilizes a powerful real-time,…
Descriptors: Computer Oriented Programs, Data Processing, Databases, Decision Making
Summers, J. K.; Sullivan, J. E. – 1970
This document explains recent developments in computer science and information systems of interest to the educational manager. A brief history of computers is included, together with an examination of modern computers' capabilities. Various features of card, tape, and disk information storage systems are presented. The importance of time-sharing…
Descriptors: Computer Oriented Programs, Computer Science, Computer Storage Devices, Computers
