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Evans, John A. – 1970
An educational management information system is a network of communication channels, information sources, computer storage and retrieval devices, and processing routines that provide data to educational managers at different levels, places, and times to facilitate decisionmaking. Management information systems should be differentiated from…
Descriptors: Computer Science, Computers, Decision Making, Educational Planning
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
Newcomer, Kathryn E.; Caudle, Sharon L. – 1987
Oversight information systems provide data to oversight agency managers that enable them to: (1) monitor the operations of agencies for which they are charged oversight responsibilities; (2) compare performance data against set performance criteria; and (3) identify exceptions that occur outside performance tolerance parameters. This research…
Descriptors: Computer Oriented Programs, Computers, Decision Making, Evaluation Utilization
Hayman, John L., Jr. – 1972
This document proceeds from the model presented in ED 088 147 outlining in general form some of the issues and needs in a management information system (MIS) for the National Institute of Education (NIE). This report discusses management information issues and needs more concretely. The discussion is related to planning, developing, and operating…
Descriptors: Decision Making, Educational Planning, Educational Research, Federal Programs
Gubasta, Joseph L. – 1976
This paper outlines several considerations relating to the preparation of information systems for educational managers. College and university managers must have clearly stated needs for planning and management information and the potential uses to which such information could be put. Information systems should be created to satisfy operational…
Descriptors: Administration, Decision Making, Higher Education, Information Needs
Naginey, Charles H., Ed.; Thomas, Charles R., Ed. – 1979
The development, use, and management of information systems in higher education are examined in these proceedings of the 1979 College and University Systems Exchange (CAUSE) National Conference. General sessions deal with computer management to data resource management and institutional perspective for the 1980's. The remaining sessions are…
Descriptors: College Administration, Computer Programs, Computers, Data Analysis
Stowe, Richard A. – 1973
Educational development requires management, which is basically decision-making based upon information. Information must be processed, involving movement from its source, analysis, transmission, storage, retrieval, summarization, transformation, and reporting. The regulation of this process is the purview of the information management system…
Descriptors: Administration, Costs, Decision Making, Educational Development
Ernst, Ronald L.; Yovits, Marshall C. – 1969
This paper deals with the organization of two important areas which interact strongly: information science and decision-making. Both are commonly and extensively used in a variety of ways and share an equally commonly and extensively used variety of definitions. This paper deals with the mutual interaction between information science and…
Descriptors: Decision Making, Information Dissemination, Information Processing, Information Science
Cronin, Beverly – Popular Computing, 1984
Introduces three articles that identify various types of database management programs, discuss their basic features and some typical applications and present a table of the leading programs available; profile several companies that are utilizing database management systems; and illustrate several unusual home applications for hobbyists. (MBR)
Descriptors: Computer Software, Decision Making, Information Processing, Management Information Systems
Cormier, Roger A. – Journal of Educational Data Processing, 1971
A study to determine the information required by superintendents for decisionmaking in educational administration. (RA)
Descriptors: Decision Making, Educational Administration, Information Needs, Information Processing
Ryland, Jane N., Ed.; Thomas, Charles R., Ed. – 1975
Collected here are 55 papers presented at the 1975 College and University Systems Exchange (CAUSE) national conference. Papers are organized to reflect the activities at the conference: 10 papers are grouped in the section for management presentations, 10 papers are included in technical presentations, and 12 papers are included in mixed…
Descriptors: Administration, Computers, Conference Reports, Data Processing
Joplin, Alan L. – 1980
The information needed for informed decision making and planning by institutions of higher education can be made available through the establishment of carefully constructed databases. This handbook outlines the characteristics of databases, the needs databases meet, the key factors around which they must be organized, the advantages they offer,…
Descriptors: Data Analysis, Data Collection, Databases, Decision Making
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Mellor, Warren L. – Journal of Educational Administration, 1976
Computer-based educational information systems produce information that provides decision-makers with a more complete knowledge, an increased range of alternatives, and an improved capability for anticipating decision consequences. (Author/IRT)
Descriptors: Administrators, Computer Science, Decision Making, Educational Administration
Cooper, George E.; And Others – 1978
A computer-drive interactive aid for movement analysis, called MOVANAID, has been developed to be of assistance in the performance of certain Army intelligence processing tasks in a tactical environment. It can compute fastest travel times and paths through road networks for military units of various types, as well as fastest times in which…
Descriptors: Computer Programs, Decision Making, Information Processing, Information Systems
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