The authors describe a system implemented in the media services unit at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, which allows for a simple but accurate accounting of costs and activities. (Author)

In 1973, the Department of Health Education and Welfare released advisory committee recommendations that could change the recordkeeping policies of schools and other public and private institutions. Discusses the committee's findings and their implications for the future. (JF)

Provides safeguard requirements for administrative personal data systems which were drafted by the HEW Secretary's Advisory Committee on Automated Personal Data Systems. (JF)

Education must be concerned about probabilities rather than plausibilities or absolutes. (Author)

Advantages of systematic recordkeeping for special and regular education teachers are discussed and guidelines are offered for using the information collected. A sample data sheet illustrates one collection technique. Recordkeeping is seen as a way of understanding antecedents, behavior, and consequences of a child's response. (CL)

Total Medical Record (TMR) is an automated, ambulatory medical record keeping system for patients at Duke University. (JD)

If business education is to survive in the future, new methods and new courses will need to be incorporated into the curriculum. These new methods and courses must involve the use of computers. Changes must occur in the teaching of word processing, records management, basic business classes, and typewriting. (CT)

Discusses such topics as selection of data elements, the entering and updating of data, and the computer software for an automated property accounting system. (IRT)

A checklist designed to pinpoint proper use of "transfer type" files also suggests a review of conditions of the planned storage area, local regulations, type of documents to be stored, and cost. (Author/MLF)

Asserting that confusion about the treatment of merit-based or categorically-based aid has revealed the need for a generalized financial aid reporting methodology, suggests a procedure for financial aid reporting that recognizes differing treatment of need-based aid before and after awarding. Offers general information about the theoretical…

Describes record linkage as a data-generating technique, and presents a method for linking client records to live and stillbirth records, using 32,974 births in the Cleveland (Ohio) area. Biases that can enter the linkage process and general research issues related to record linkage are discussed. (SLD)