Student personnel workers and services have increased without parallel increase in research in this area. To update and augment existing research skills, including knowledge of computers and computer language, to work toward a more adequate interdisciplinary conceptual base, and to encourage the establishment of information centers in the…

The conference defined the parameters of an information system to satisfy the needs of local districts for access to and use of the results of R & D in education. Elements of the design are (1) output (needs of local personnel), (2) input (content, location, and organization of data), (3) process (existing developments and services), and (4) roles…

This study of the computer/user interface investigated the role of the computer in performing information tasks that users now perform without computer assistance. Users' perceptual/cognitive processes are to be accelerated or augmented by the computer; a long term goal is to delegate information tasks entirely to the computer. Cybernetic and…

The City of Baltimore utilizes an automated information system centered on finance and personnel administration. This survey of the system as of summer 1975 describes 15 categories of operations systems serving approximately 50 purposes. Each system is described by department, bureau, and services. These include: Bureau of Management Information…

This paper examines the proposition that management information systems (MIS) for colleges and universities are not achieving their original objectives of supporting better management decisions by providing more and better information in a more timely manner. As a consequence, the MIS activity should be reduced in scope, and standardized to…

With increasingly large quantities of management-oriented information being produced for decision-making, administrators are finding that they have insufficient time to adequately review and digest its meaning. This paper discusses the development of a computerized graphics system that will permit nearly all types of management information to be…

The rapid expansion of special education in many parts of the world has brought about much new knowledge and the need for a global information and documentation service. To pull together world-wide information and documentation, UNESCO, the Bureau of International Education, the Council of Europe, the Educational Resources Information Center…

The development of information systems in higher education in the United States has paralleled the development of large-scale electronic computers. There are a number of conceptual designs for information systems in higher education. There also exist different information requirements for operation of a university, coordination of educational…

This report examines the features of computer information systems, differentiating between data files, search systems, and computer information organizations. An annotated listing is provided of those computer information retrieval files of interest to the music education researcher. This listing is divided into five categories: (1) music and…

This thesaurus contains listings of descriptors or terms used to index the literature in the National Criminal Justice Reference Service (NCJRS) documentation data base and to store and retrieve information about the literature for users of the service. Term selection is based largely on the vocabulary of the authors of the documents entering the…

The purpose of this project was to determine what the availability of educational data in the state department of education is and what strategies can be applied to improve state data systems and make the best use of them in making national and state educational decisions. The project involved two major activities: the design and implementation of…

This document describes the computerized procedures developed and utilized by Montgomery College (Maryland) to maintain records related to student academic progress. The new system was fully operable by fall 1972. Systems development included: (1) the conversion of past student records to a permanent grade history file; (2) the development of a…

The central issue in the analysis of the data in this study is the ability of the social science faculty to contribute to the operations of the university as an information system. This means a contribution at all levels from basic science research to working with the public. The study attempts to determine: (1) the extent to which the efforts of…

The document is an index to the Career Information Service (CIS), a cooperative program between the Greater Lowell Regional School District and the Massachusetts Division of Occupational Education. The program utilizes the microfilm aperture card technology for disseminating occupational information in a school setting; its objectives are to…

The document contains optical scannable forms for some of the instruments in the Input and Process Batteries, and guidelines for administration of the instruments in the Input Batteries of the Management Information System for Occupational Education (MISOE) Sample Data Systems. Input information describes the characteristics of the students at…