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McAndrews, J. Briggs; Leonard, William F., Jr. – 1975
A comparative case study of two dissimilar school systems concerned with the development and implementation of a management information system was the focus for this research study. The overall planning, evaluation, and assessment model constituting the theoretical framework for this project was taken from the work of the recently completed Phi…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Consultants, Curriculum Development, Educational Administration
Hayman, John L., Jr. – 1972
This document proceeds from the model presented in ED 088 147 outlining in general form some of the issues and needs in a management information system (MIS) for the National Institute of Education (NIE). This report discusses management information issues and needs more concretely. The discussion is related to planning, developing, and operating…
Descriptors: Decision Making, Educational Planning, Educational Research, Federal Programs
Barbadora, Bernard M. – 1974
The Cincinnati Public Schools' Information System (SIS) was established in 1970 and is currently an ongoing mechanism serving almost 100 schools. Its overall purpose is to provide data and information to decision-makers in order to optimize decision-making. The system utilizes a Hewlett-Packard 2000C unit and collects data on over 800 variables…
Descriptors: Computer Programs, Decision Making, Educational Planning, Elementary Schools
Galamaga, Donald P.; Bartolomeo, Paul A. – 1974
The document describes the implementation (Phase Two) of the Vocational Educational module--one component of an educational management information system. Phase Two entails the technical effort of final system design, final output specifications, edit specifications, system software selection, computer programing, systems documentation and the…
Descriptors: Computer Oriented Programs, Computer Programs, Databases, Guides
Hawthorne, Phyllis – 1973
This revision of earlier reports reproduces copies of, or excerpts from, legislation that has been enacted through August 1973 in 27 States. The facets of accountability that the laws cover are State testing or assessment programs; evaluation of professional employees; performance contracting; planning, programming, and budgeting systems;…
Descriptors: Accountability, Budgeting, Elementary Education, Management Information Systems
Watson, Cicely – 1973
The survey reported on in this document addressed itself to discovering what kinds of quantitative models have been developed and implemented for educational decisionmaking during 1965-72, and what planning questions they are intended to answer; where these models have been implemented and to what extent they are being used; and the cost of such…
Descriptors: Administrators, Boards of Education, College Administration, Computer Oriented Programs
Seattle Public Schools, WA. – 1972
A model was developed to be used in the resolution of problems in the rural and suburban school districts in Intermediate School District #110 service area of King County, Washington. The system based on this model was used to move information from the professional/technical base to the manager confronted with the problem resolution. The problem…
Descriptors: Administrative Organization, Educational Facilities, Educational Technology, Enrollment Projections
Owens, Robert G.; Lewis, Edward – Group Organization Studies, 1976
Suggests a three part schema for classifying teachers' attitudes towards problems which normally arise in a school system. Based upon these concepts, the authors developed and tested a technique for assessing teachers' views as a source of data to guide principals and superintendents in deciding whom to involve in dealing with what problems. For…
Descriptors: Administrator Responsibility, Attitude Measures, Decision Making, Elementary Secondary Education
CAUSE/EFFECT, 1988
Grinnell College offers a curriculum that integrates computing throughout, with a classroom emphasis on using the computer to help the faculty teach, rather than obtain products to supply the teaching. Organization and planning, hardware and communications, administrative computing, public computing areas, and desktop publishing are discussed.…
Descriptors: College Administration, College Faculty, Computer Networks, Computer Uses in Education
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Lewis, David W. – College and Research Libraries, 1986
Considers organizational structures of academic libraries through writings of organizational theorists and related work by librarians and develops an organizational model based on this review. The model comprises a modified professional bureaucratic structure; flexible resource allocation; use of management information systems; export of…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Administrative Organization, Budgeting, Higher Education
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Homer, Garth – Canadian Library Journal, 1986
Examines the characteristics of management information systems and their impact on decisions of senior library managers. The organizational feasibility of such systems is discussed in terms of four key components--economic, technical, structural, psychological--that are related to libraries in general and senior management decisions in particular.…
Descriptors: Administrators, Computer Oriented Programs, Decision Making, Library Administration
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Bays, Carter – College and University, 1984
A passive computer application using student course transcripts to group and arrange specific degree requirements to produce an advising worksheet is described, and the language used by a math department for this purpose is outlined. A sample advisement form resulting from the program is reproduced. (MSE)
Descriptors: Academic Advising, Academic Records, Classification, Computer Oriented Programs
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Robins, Cindy; And Others – Journal of the Society of Research Administrators, 1986
The use of microcomputers for informing principal investigators of due dates for continuation and renewal proposals and for tracking proposals from submission to award or withdrawal/rejection in multiple-project research programs is discussed. (MSE)
Descriptors: Business Communication, Computer Oriented Programs, Computer Software, Grantsmanship
Bobko, Douglas J.; Hayes, John F. – Journal of Computer-Based Instruction, 1983
The Army Research Institute developed and made operational a computer-based maintenance performance management information system that monitors technical activities of maintenance personnel. The implications of data from eight months of system operation for training programs, training material development, estimating manning requirements,…
Descriptors: Competence, Computer Oriented Programs, Equipment Maintenance, Job Performance
Buffington, James R.; Harper, Jeffrey S. – 2001
Many Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB) accredited schools require undergraduate Management Information Systems (MIS) majors to take a course in the management of information technology. Over half of these schools utilize case studies in the teaching of this course. Case studies are an important vehicle for teaching…
Descriptors: Business Education, Case Studies, Cooperative Learning, Experiential Learning
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