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Nebraska Occupational Needs Research Coordinating Unit, Lincoln. – 1975
The eighth annual report of a continuing project to supply occupational data to educators, the study emphasizes the determination of manpower needs and job opportunities from information furnished by employers in the State of Nebraska for the year ending June 30, 1975. The data will be used in planning vocational education programs. During this…
Descriptors: Data Collection, Educational Planning, Employment Opportunities, Expenditures
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Hackman, Judith Dozier – Research in Higher Education, 1983
Seven institutional research maxims based on research and theory about how people cognitively process information are discussed: more may not be better; augment humans with models; chunk data wisely; know decision-makers; heuristics are not always helpful; arrange tables by patterns; and accept negative evidence and new hypotheses. (Author/MLW)
Descriptors: Bias, Data Analysis, Data Collection, Decision Making
McCaslin, Rosemary; Gibb, Mary – 1980
Relevant conceptual frameworks must guide data collection and analysis if data are to be useful to service program planners and administrators. Such frameworks are increasingly important in the systematic assessment of the total array of services in a planning region. This paper describes a two-dimensional classification matrix developed in…
Descriptors: Administrator Guides, Classification, Data Analysis, Data Collection
Morrison, James L.; Ptaszynski, James G. – 1990
An environmental scanning system was developed by the admissions office of a graduate school of management in a small southeastern university. The school's strategic planning committee felt that it would be beneficial to acquire information concerning issues, trends, and possible events that might impact upon the school in the future and to…
Descriptors: Business Administration Education, Classification, Data Collection, Educational Planning
Allred, Marcus D.; Myers, Christine F. – 1973
The step-by-step procedures contained in this manual are intended to develop a simple information system that can be used to collect and process the best possible factual data on the manpower needs of the community served by an educational institution, so that long-range planning of vocational curriculum and guidance can be based on what the jobs…
Descriptors: Career Counseling, Community Colleges, Community Surveys, Curriculum Development
Huws, Ursula; Jagger, Nick; O'Regan, Siobhan – 1999
Inexpensive telecommunications, the spread of computing, and globalization are creating major change in the location of work within and between countries. Because no tools have yet been developed to investigate the new spatial employment patterns, a cluster analysis involving more than 50 variables and 206 countries was performed to group…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Cluster Analysis, Data Analysis, Data Collection