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Arnovick, George N.; Gee, Larry G. – Information Processing and Management, 1978
Considers two aspects of design and performance evaluation of information systems: initiation, planning, development, and testing of new systems, to include modification of existing structures; and appraisals and measurement of operational systems and components. A taxonomy of information systems provides a basis for organized evaluation of system…
Descriptors: Evaluation Methods, Formative Evaluation, Information Systems, Management Information Systems
General Accounting Office, Washington, DC. – 1987
This evaluation of the leadership and decision making of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) and the General Services Administration (GSA) in managing the federal government's telecommunications determined that both agencies need to engage in sufficient planning and analysis to determine which telecommunications systems should be centrally…
Descriptors: Agency Cooperation, Cooperative Planning, Costs, Evaluation Methods
Saracevic, Tefko – 1968
The Comparative Systems Laboratory (CSL) proposed to deal with the problems of testing retrieval systems by examining a number of processes involved in such systems, with particular attention to the human factor. It is hoped that the results of the project will be useful in refining methodologies for experimentation with information retrieval (IR)…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Evaluation Methods, Indexing, Information Retrieval
Rees, Alan M; Schultz, Douglas G. – 1967
An empirical study of the nature and variability of the relevance judgment process was conducted from July 1, 1965 to September 30, 1967. Volume I of the final report presents a literature review and statement of the theoretical framework of the study, a discussion of the experimental design and a summary of data analyses. The study had two…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Content Analysis, Decision Making, Evaluation Methods