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PDF pending restorationParr, Cadar – 1976
In a study designed to identify information needs of persons who make management decisions about public school vocational education programs in Texas and who develop ways to meet these needs through use of a management information system, particular emphasis was given to the information needs of management within the Texas Education Agency…
Descriptors: Accountability, Decision Making, Educational Legislation, Educational Planning
Pillinger, Barbara Baxter; Kraack, Thomas A. – OSA Research Bulletin, 1980
The concept and implementation of long-range planning for student affairs is considered, and a simple model for planning that could be useful to chief student personnel officers is presented. Several issues are considered in this process: the conditions and premises crucial to planning, a systematic approach to planning, the locus of the planning…
Descriptors: Administrative Organization, College Environment, College Planning, Decision Making
Tunsiri, Vichai – 1978
The Unesco report, one in a series, examines education in Thailand. It studies the general framework of information systems within the Ministry of Education, assesses the availability and use of information for decision making in planning and curriculum development and identifies the problems concerning the information system. There are four…
Descriptors: Comparative Education, Curriculum Development, Decision Making, Developing Nations
Download full textHuff, Robert A. – 1975
Ways that data can be misused in establishing accountability of public higher education are described along with approaches to help alleviate the potential adversary relationships between postsecondary leaders and state agency personnel. It is suggested that scholars fear a future in which educational decisions may be made according to numbers or…
Descriptors: Academic Freedom, Accountability, Budgeting, Conflict Resolution
Bryson, Charles H. – 1978
Statewide data collection systems emerged in the late sixties as the vehicle to achieving greater efficiency and accountability in higher education. The expectations of statewide systems were that they would meet the needs of various levels of management. The example presented in this paper is the Georgia management information system and its…
Descriptors: Administrative Organization, Administrators, Case Studies, Centralization
Cook, Gordon – 1978
The problem-oriented medical record, developed by Lawrence L. Weed, M.D., involves an interactive computer system and has been operational on two wards at the University Hospital in Burlington, Vermont, a teaching hospital. The Problem-Oriented Medical Information System (PROMIS) consists of terminals that feed into the central memory units; the…
Descriptors: Case Records, Clinical Diagnosis, Computer Oriented Programs, Delivery Systems
National Inst. for Occupational Safety and Health (DHEW/PHS), Rockville, MD. – 1978
The six papers that comprise this document deal with topics related to the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) and/or its online document retrieval system, NIOSHTIC. Specific subjects include: (1) a method to catalog multiple sources of NIOSH publications for dissemination; (2) an input rejection algorithm used to provide…
Descriptors: Algorithms, Cataloging, Government Publications, Health
McKinley, Kenneth H.; Self, Burl E., Jr. – 1979
A study was conducted to determine the feasibility of using the computer-based Synagraphic Mapping Program (SYMAP) and the Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (SPSS) in formulating an efficient and accurate information system which Creek Nation tribal staff could implement and use in planning for more effective and precise delivery of…
Descriptors: American Indian Reservations, American Indians, Census Figures, Computer Oriented Programs
St. John, Edward P. – 1979
An institutional management systems development study examined the Management Information Systems (MIS) needs of 23 public institutions of higher education in Missouri. The result was a model framework for other institutions to develop MIS appropriate to their needs. One of five distinct structural development phases could be related to all…
Descriptors: Computer Oriented Programs, Data Processing, Educational Planning, Information Processing
McIntyre, Charles J. – 1977
The University of Illinois' project on the elevation of the importance of teaching consisted of two programs: one to try to better systematize information about teaching effectiveness, and one to develop and validate a peer evaluation questionnaire to secure interpretable information. It is believed that the importance of teaching effectiveness…
Descriptors: College Faculty, College Instruction, Evaluation Criteria, Evaluation Methods
Johnson, Joyce C.; And Others – 1979
The accuracy and reliability of the student data base at the University of the District of Columbia were assessed. The data base, which is used by administrators for planning purposes, consists of the number of students enrolled in various course sections, the number of students enrolled in various departments by levels, and the principal fields…
Descriptors: Black Colleges, College Administration, College Admission, Computer Oriented Programs
HENLE, R.J. – 1967
THIS STUDY WAS DESIGNED TO DEVISE AND TEST SYSTEMS OF MEASURING AND REPORTING ACTIVITIES IN COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES SO THAT SUCH INSTITUTIONS COULD MAINTAIN RECORDS ADEQUATE BOTH FOR THEIR OWN PURPOSES AND FOR REPORTING TO INTERESTED AGENCIES. DATA CONCERNING MANPOWER, STUDENTS, FACILITIES, AND FINANCES COVER ALL FIELDS OF UNIVERSITY ACTIVITY…
Descriptors: Budgeting, Colleges, Costs, Data Collection
MORPHET, EDGAR L.; RYAN, CHARLES O. – 1966
FIFTEEN PAPERS RELATED TO VARIOUS ASPECTS OF PROJECTED SOCIAL CHANGE WERE PRESENTED AT THE FIRST AREA CONFERENCE OF "DESIGNING EDUCATION FOR THE FUTURE," AN EIGHT-STATE PROJECT OF JOINT ACTION BY ARIZONA, COLORADO, IDAHO, MONTANA, NEVADA, NEW MEXICO, UTAH, AND WYOMING. THE 15-YEAR PROJECTION FOCUSED UPON IMPLICATIONS FOR EDUCATION IN THE…
Descriptors: Collective Bargaining, Communications, Economic Factors, Educational Change
Harper, Harold; And Others – 1981
This descriptive report outlines Miami-Dade Community College's Advisement and Graduate Information System (AGIS) which, as an on-line computer aid for counseling staff, monitors students' progress in degree attainment. The need for AGIS is discussed first, in terms of: (1) the college's commitment to providing students with adequate information…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Standards, Articulation (Education), Associate Degrees
Association for Educational Data Systems, Washington, DC. – 1980
The 45 papers in this collection are contributed, refereed papers submitted for publication in the proceedings of the 18th Annual Association for Educational Data Systems Convention. They cover educational applications of computers in the following areas: computer assisted instruction, computer managed instruction, instructional and learning…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Managed Instruction, Computer Oriented Programs, Computer Science Education
