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Fielden, John – Educational Administration Bulletin, 1972
Academic decisionmakers must be helped to use the right kind of information so that the implications of the difficult alternative choice decisions are fully spelled out. The great overriding benefit of an integrated management information approach is that it can further the institutional view and can show a broad overall picture. (Author)
Descriptors: Centralization, Communication (Thought Transfer), Data Processing, Decision Making
Kriebel, Charles H. – 1969
Over the past several years there has been considerable speculation concerning the role, direction, and characteristics of information processing systems in the future. The gap between the technological state of the art in computer-based information processing and today's applied practices in management information systems further clouds the…
Descriptors: Data Processing, Decision Making, Information Processing, Information Systems
Witt, Barbara – 1974
One hundred and fifty bibliographic entries, dealing with the subject of management information systems, are divided into sections for books and for periodicals. The latter section is further subdivided according to years of publication, although no attempt has been made to gather articles that appeared prior to 1969. (WM)
Descriptors: Bibliographies, Data Processing, Decision Making, Information Processing
Wayne County Community Coll., Detroit, MI. – 1977
This pamphlet represents the third in a six-part series describing the Management Organization Systems Technique (MOST), developed at Wayne County Community College, whose purpose is to determine the goals and objectives of a college and to assist in their attainment and evaluation. The information sub-system is designed to collect, process and…
Descriptors: College Administration, Data Collection, Data Processing, Decision Making
Balkan, Lore; And Others – CAUSE/EFFECT, 1992
To increase the value of administrative information for universitywide decision making, the office of institutional research at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University has undertaken a project to standardize data elements and codes across all administrative systems and institutionalize an ongoing standardization process. (Author/MSE)
Descriptors: College Administration, College Planning, Data Processing, Decision Making
Coleman, James S.; Karweit, Nancy L. – 1972
Large school systems bring various administrative problems in handling scheduling, records, and avoiding making red tape casualties of students. The authors review a portion of the current use of computers to handle these problems and examine the range of activities for which computer processing could provide aid. Since automation always brings…
Descriptors: Computer Oriented Programs, Data Processing, Decision Making, Educational Administration
Lincoln Public Schools, NE. – 1970
This final annual evaluation of project ADMIRE describes the progress made in improving educational decisionmaking in a 5-county rural-urban area by the systematic collection, organization, and reporting of data about project schools and their populations. The five sections of the report (1) describe the organization of the report and the…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Oriented Programs, Data Processing, Decision Making
Mellor, Warren – 1973
It is claimed that, properly organized, management information systems not only can contain all the data within a total organization, but can refine and arrange the information so that it becomes meaningful to the decisionmaker. At present their functions are virtually restricted to middle management, operational control levels. However, the rapid…
Descriptors: Administration, Computer Oriented Programs, Computers, Data Processing
Gifford, Bernard R. – 1974
The purpose of this study was to develop a plan for alleviating problems in the collection, processing, and dissemination of educational data as they affect the New York City Board of Education information requirements. The Data Base Management concept was used to analyze three topics: administration, structure, and standards. The study found that…
Descriptors: Board of Education Role, Boards of Education, Change Strategies, Data Collection
Ellis, W. E. – 1975
This presentation discusses the products the South Carolina Department of Education derives from that State's management information system and traces the processes used to deliver those products to local school districts. Emphasis is on a description of the technical assistance the State department of education provides the local school district…
Descriptors: Action Research, Data Processing, Decision Making, Elementary Secondary Education
Bryson, Charles H. – 1978
Statewide data collection systems emerged in the late sixties as the vehicle to achieving greater efficiency and accountability in higher education. The expectations of statewide systems were that they would meet the needs of various levels of management. The example presented in this paper is the Georgia management information system and its…
Descriptors: Administrative Organization, Administrators, Case Studies, Centralization
Mellor, Warren – 1973
Progress in realizing the full potential of computerized data processing is being hindered by costs and by the spread of a multitude of small, independent computer facilities. There is a need for some uniformity of specifications among the various systems. The result would be a compatibility that could help to reduce costs more rapidly because of…
Descriptors: Administration, Centralization, Computer Oriented Programs, Computers
Warner, Donna D.; And Others – 1972
This manual describes procedures for collecting, recording, and reporting in a uniform, timely manner critical information necessary to the making of key management decisions for parent child centers as well as for the parent child center program. The first section describes recommended data collection and recordkeeping procedures for such…
Descriptors: Counseling Services, Data Collection, Data Processing, Decision Making
Abt Associates, Inc., Cambridge, MA. – 1973
The objectives of this volume are to present the National Data Coordinator with an overview of the document input-output relationships, explain data validation and processing procedures required to produce the Quarterly Management Reports from input documents submitted by the Parent Child Centers (PCC's), and to specify system resource…
Descriptors: Counseling Services, Data Collection, Data Processing, Decision Making
Abt Associates, Inc., Cambridge, MA. – 1973
The Parent Child Center Management Information System, the first operational MIS for a social action program relating to child welfare, consists of three interlocking components: a standard set of recordkeeping forms for the local Parent Child Center; a set of quarterly reporting forms that interface with the recordkeeping forms; and a series of…
Descriptors: Child Welfare, Counseling Services, Data Collection, Data Processing
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