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Download full textGuthrie, James W., Ed.; Kirst, Michael W., Ed. – 1984
The policy papers included in this package address various facets of the topic of data-based accountability for education in California. Guy Benveniste of the University of California, Berkeley, School of Education explores the underlying issue of accountability and describes the implications of different types of accountability measures. In…
Descriptors: Accountability, Data Collection, Data Processing, Educational Assessment
Griffin, Teresa; And Others – 1981
In preparation for a major research study on change in schools, a 3-month pilot study of principals in 10 schools was conducted in central Texas. The main purpose of the study was to investigate different ways to document the actions taken by the principals to facilitate implementation of innovations in their schools. In this paper, the procedures…
Descriptors: Data Collection, Educational Innovation, Elementary Secondary Education, Field Interviews
Alkin, Marvin C. – 1985
A study was sponsored by the Office of the Chancellor of the California Community Colleges to: (1) document and analyze the information needs of various groups (e.g., the legislature, state agencies, and community colleges) with respect to the state's community colleges and to prepare a matrix of information needs and uses; (2) inventory the…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Data Collection, Information Needs, Information Sources
Wilkinson, Louise Cherry – 1985
Two major areas are recommended in the redesign of the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) data collection: assessment of social and communicative competence, and description of classroom processes. Social and communicative competence are important achievements of the school-age years and are heavily influenced by classroom…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Classroom Environment, Classroom Research, Communicative Competence (Languages)
Daval, Nicola, Comp.; McConnell, Margaret, Comp. – 1988
This report presents data, describing mostly on-site institutional resources, from the 118 U.S. and Canadian research libraries that were members of the Association of Research Libraries (ARL) during the 1986-87 fiscal year. The following information is included in the document: (1) ARL library data tables reflecting data on collections,…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Data Collection, Doctoral Degrees, Enrollment
United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization, Paris (France). International Inst. for Educational Planning. – 1987
The main aim of the International Institute for Educational Planning's program "Training the Trainers" is to improve the technical skills of planning specialists and to develop their organizational capabilities so that they can run national training programs. The objectives of the workshop described in this reort were to design the…
Descriptors: Administrator Education, Data Analysis, Data Collection, Developing Nations
Brennan, Marie; Noffke, Susan E. – 1988
This paper explores the use of data for evidence in the task of building dialogue in an action research project developed for student teachers in the University of Wisconsin "Action Research on Action Research" project. Three particular uses are found. First, data in the form of information is gathered on a topic under discussion or investigation,…
Descriptors: Action Research, Data Collection, Data Interpretation, Group Dynamics
Linn, Robert L.; And Others – 1987
The Study Group on Pre-Collegiate Education Quality Indicators was formed to determine means of obtaining information on elementary and secondary educational quality within and across states. Two papers: "State-by-State Comparisons of Student Achievement" (Robert L. Linn) and "The Effectiveness of American Education" (Eva L.…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Administrative Policy, Administrators, Data Collection
North Carolina State Dept. of Public Education, Raleigh. Div. of Student Information Management. – 1987
This manual has been designed to assist in the conversion of schools to the SIMS (Student Information Management System) School System. SIMS is based on a software package modified for use in the North Carolina Public School System. The term "conversion" refers to the process of changing the current records system to a new one, thus…
Descriptors: Administrator Responsibility, Attendance Records, Check Lists, Data Collection
Cohen, Arthur M.; And Others – 1988
The Urban Community Colleges Transfer Opportunities Program (UCCTOP) was initiated in 1983 to stimulate the transfer of minority students from community colleges to universities. Collecting data on the effects of the UCCTOP activities proved to be one of the most difficult aspects of the project as community colleges typically do not have reliable…
Descriptors: College Transfer Students, Community Colleges, Data Collection, Minority Groups
Orr, David B. – 1987
In 1986, the Center for Education Statistics (CES) initiated a series of meetings with a wide range of private school representatives. At these meetings, a need for more complete information on the data collection efforts of the various private groups was identified, and as a result, CES agreed to investigate the extent and nature of the education…
Descriptors: Data Collection, Databases, Elementary Secondary Education, Enrollment Trends
McMahon, Walter W. – 1988
This paper systematically reports differences in the cost of living among different parts of the United States, as well as among different rural and urban counties in the state of Illinois. A systematic procedure for estimating these differences based on the Bureau of Labor Statistics data for selected localities was developed by McMahon and…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Consumer Economics, Cost Estimates, Cost Indexes
Brinkman, Paul; Krakower, Jack – 1983
The preparation and use of data needed to make objective, useful comparisons in higher education are considered. The needs for comparative data in higher education, including demands for accountability and strategic planning, are reviewed. In addition, data-related problems are considered: problems of narrowness, misrepresentation, sameness,…
Descriptors: Administrator Guides, College Administration, College Planning, Comparative Analysis
Lynden, Frederick C. – 1983
Replacing a January 1980 publication of the same title, this collection of cost tables and other documentation from library materials cost studies conducted by members of the Association of Research Libraries (ARL) or by library vendors contains excerpts from: (1) local cost studies conducted at Colorado State University, Indiana University, Iowa…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Books, Cost Indexes, Data Collection
Keel, Linda – 1984
The methodology and problems of research on cross-age tutoring are reported. Using a phenomenological framework, the two researchers involved in the study worked toward a research method and design that would account for the backgrounds of both; one was trained in the quantifiable methods of natural science, the other in qualitative methods of…
Descriptors: Cross Age Teaching, Data Analysis, Data Collection, Educational Research
