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McLaughlin, Gerald W.; Howard, Richard D. – CAUSE/EFFECT, 1991
The article demonstrates how information managers at institutions of higher education can develop a checklist for evaluating the usability and effectiveness of institutional data and information. Three primary personnel roles (technicians, analysts, users) and five primary activities (selection, capture and storage, manipulation and analysis,…
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Check Lists, Data Analysis, Evaluation Methods
Download full textHall, Homer J. – 1977
The value systems by which the users of purchased information services select which one to use or buy are found to differ sharply among different user populations, but the variable found to control them is a function of use, not of the user as an individual. Selection variables are summarized in a matrix of user values and interaction effects. The…
Descriptors: Data Analysis, Decision Making, Discriminant Analysis, Evaluation Methods
Bank, Adrianne; Williams, Richard C. – 1983
The components of existing district instructional information systems are identified and illustrated by examples from field studies and descriptions of work with two districts in defining their instructional information systems and assigning costs. Instructional information systems are loosely organized methods of providing past and present…
Descriptors: Cost Effectiveness, Data Analysis, Data Collection, Educational Planning
Hood, Paul D.; Blackwell, Laird R. – 1979
This report describes and analyzes statistical indicators of educational knowledge production and dissemination capability, presenting data at both the state and regional levels of aggregation. Three factors underlie 12 statistical indicators: a document production and access factor, a human-based linkage and exemplary practices factor, and a…
Descriptors: Classification, Data Analysis, Educational Resources, Federal Programs
United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization, Bangkok (Thailand). Regional Office for Education in Asia and the Pacific. – 1986
Information is repackaged to assist population education information centers in their goal of facilitating the appropriate dissemination and use of information. Repackaging of information refers to the presentation of information in more understandable, readable, acceptable, and usable forms. This manual includes (1) guidelines for choosing…
Descriptors: Abstracts, Bibliographies, Data Analysis, Data Collection
Massachusetts State Dept. of Education, Boston. Bureau of Educational Information Services. – 1975
Project SEIC (State Educational Information Center) was funded to increase the demand for and use of educational information, especially ERIC (Educational Resources Information Center) information, and to make more cost effective the delivery of information services. To accomplish these goals, Project SEIC first assessed the state-of-the-art of…
Descriptors: Change Agents, Computer Programs, Data Analysis, Delivery Systems
