One of 10 publications from a long-range vocational education planning project, this dictionary is designed to help the planner identify vocation planning data elements and organize them for storage and easy accessibility. This publication serves to identify and describe (1) those data elements required to support current planning and…

Designed to meet the vocational needs of users from kindergarten through retirement, the Information System for Vocational Decisions (ISVD) provides occupational facts and/or data which can be converted into vocational information. This annual report describes the first year of development of a prototype of the ISVD, the completion of which is…

To investigate and resolve some of the problems associated with developing a permanent state-wide occupational information service system for planning and programing vocational education, a small scale data bank was developed for six selected countries in Alabama. Inputs were collected from 38 high schools offering vocational education, two…

Educational institutions typically have data filed in many forms in many locations, making the task of gathering relevant data for any purpose a difficult process. The Davidson Community College approached the problem by studying management information systems in other North Carolina institutions, searching ERIC, and pursuing leads in journals of…

As one of a series of curriculum guides for office education programs in Texas, this guide contains five units of instruction in data processing. Each of the units consists of these components: unit outline, performance chart for rating students, notes to the instructor, unit overview (content of unit with illustrations as needed), test, and…