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Grama, Joanna Lyn – Institute for Higher Education Policy, 2019
Our current federal postsecondary data system is incomplete and fails to provide today's students with the accurate, timely information that they need to inform their college choices and promote their success. As policymakers consider proposals to improve this federal data system, it is critical that they work in tandem to protect students'…
Descriptors: Privacy, Information Security, Postsecondary Education, Information Systems
National Forum on Education Statistics, 2020
The "Forum Guide to Data Governance" highlights how data governance programs benefit education agencies and provide timely and useful best practices, examples, and resources for agencies implementing or updating their data governance programs. This resource is intended to address the needs of federal, state, and local agencies related…
Descriptors: Data, Governance, Information Security, Privacy
Moore, Colleen; Bracco, Kathy Reeves – Education Insights Center, 2018
California's education data, at least as they currently are collected, managed, and made available, are not sufficient for understanding and addressing the needs of California's students. That's the conclusion of the first three reports in the series "California Education Policy, Student Data, and the Quest to Improve Student Progress,"…
Descriptors: Information Needs, Longitudinal Studies, Educational Policy, Educational Improvement
Liu, Yi; Xu, TianWei; Xiao, Mengjin – International Journal of Information and Communication Technology Education, 2023
In order to better grasp the needs of library users and provide them with more accurate knowledge services, combining the characteristics of university libraries, this article applies library small data to personalized recommendation and proposes a small data fusion algorithm model for library personalized recommendation. This model combines the…
Descriptors: Research Libraries, Data Collection, Data Analysis, Tables (Data)
Whitfield, Christina; Armstrong, John; Weeden, Dustin – State Higher Education Executive Officers, 2019
Since 2010, the State Higher Education Executive Officers Association (SHEEO) has periodically administered the "Strong Foundations" survey, which documents the content, structure, and effective use of state postsecondary student unit record systems (PSURSs). This report highlights the results of the fourth administration of the survey,…
Descriptors: Postsecondary Education, Information Systems, Student Records, Data Collection
Armstrong, John; Whitfield, Christina – State Higher Education Executive Officers, 2016
This report addresses two key questions about postsecondary student unit record data systems (PSURSs): (1) What data are collected by various parties; and (2) how do these entities use the data to inform policy decisions? This 2016 report is both a follow-up and a redesign of two previous "Strong Foundations" reports by SHEEO (2010 and…
Descriptors: Postsecondary Education, Information Systems, Student Records, Data Collection
Niu, Ke; Niu, Zhendong; Zhao, Xiangyu; Wang, Can; Kang, Kai; Ye, Min – International Educational Data Mining Society, 2016
User clustering algorithms have been introduced to analyze users' learning behaviors and help to provide personalized learning guides in traditional Web-based learning systems. However, the explicit and implicit coupled interactions, which means the correlations between user attributes generated from learning actions, are not considered in these…
Descriptors: Web Based Instruction, Student Needs, User Needs (Information), Mathematics
National Centre for Vocational Education Research (NCVER), 2010
This document provides a summary of feedback from the discussion paper for the Review of the Australian Vocational Education and Training Management Information Statistical Standard (AVETMISS) for vocational education and training (VET) providers (hereafter, the Standard). The discussion paper provided opportunities to gather feedback on a range…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Vocational Education, Standards, Feedback (Response)
Nerden, Joseph T. – 1975
Project EDNEED has been charged with determining empirically data needed by vocational administrators at the local, State, regional, and national levels. Reliable data are necessary to present accurate reports to various State and Federal agencies and to provide answers to questions that are of major concern to legislators. Data are needed in the…
Descriptors: Data Collection, Educational Needs, Information Dissemination, Information Needs
McDonald, Sarah-Kathryn; Andal, Jolynne; Brown, Kevin; Schneider, Barbara – Regional Educational Laboratory Midwest, 2007
Educational improvement through data-based decision-making using high-quality data is a longstanding goal of policymakers and practitioners, and ensuring the quality of the evidence available to inform such decisions is a key part of the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001. The evidence-based education that such initiatives promote involves the…
Descriptors: Educational Resources, Information Needs, Information Systems, Politics of Education
Far West Lab. for Educational Research and Development, San Francisco, CA. – 1995
In March 1993, the National Goals Panel Technical Planning Subgroup on Core Data Elements was convened to focus on the issue of identifying information that could be obtained from local student data systems for use in monitoring local and state progress toward the National Education Goals. This panel's report identified recommended data elements,…
Descriptors: Accountability, Data Collection, Educational Objectives, Elementary Secondary Education
Etnyre, Vance A. – 1970
Information systems developed to support university planning must be designed to insure that all planning needs can be met. Only highly flexible, highly integrated information systems can meet current planning requirements. Such systems should be designed in a modular fashion and employ user-oriented languages to select and combine the system…
Descriptors: Data Collection, Data Processing, Information Needs, Information Systems

Bennett, Claude – Journal of Extension, 1996
Reviews past extension reporting systems--Extension Management Information System, Narrative Accomplishments Reporting System, and Program Planning and Reporting System--and the mandates of the new Government Performance and Results Act. Highlights potential conflicts among the information needs and quality indicators of local, state, and federal…
Descriptors: Accountability, Data Collection, Extension Education, Federal Regulation
Volpe, John A. – 1969
This report presents an initial five-year program for meeting the critical transportation information needs of industry and government at national, state and local levels. The program provides for information on the flows of persons and goods, information on the activities (population and industry) that generate the flows, and information on the…
Descriptors: Costs, Data Collection, Data Processing, Government (Administrative Body)
Palmour, Vernon E.; And Others – 1979
Intended to identify the perceived information needs of the residents of California and to determine if and how those are being met, this study conducted a survey of state residents. The report is divided into sections which detail the need for the study, previous research, implications for data collection procedures, technical aspects of the…
Descriptors: Data Collection, Guides, Information Dissemination, Information Needs