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Hyatt, James A.; And Others – 1980
Proceedings of a study group that considered the utility of the Higher Education General Information Survey (HEGIS) finance data for institutional and higher educational sector comparisons are presented, as are issue papers and descriptive information. The study group of representatives from higher education institutions and organizations outlined…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Data Analysis, Data Collection, Educational Finance
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Bucci, John; Massey, Sara – 1979
This paper discusses a role group sharing meeting held July 30-31, 1979 in Windsor, Connecticut, and attended by documentors and evaluators. Examined, in documentation form, are issues and learnings from the sharing meeting and an analysis of the design of the meeting, which was a pilot for other network role group meetings anticipated during the…
Descriptors: Data Analysis, Data Collection, Information Dissemination, Information Utilization
Axelson, Mary, Ed.; McGraw, Tammy, Ed.; McEntee, Sheila, Ed. – 2003
In November 2002, the Institute for the Advancement of Emerging Technologies in Education at AEL gathered education practitioners to help shepherd new assessments from the research laboratory to the classroom. Approximately 60 teachers and administrators attended the conference. The discussion focused on the possibility of aggregating formative…
Descriptors: Data Analysis, Data Collection, Educational Assessment, Educational Innovation
Daval, Nicola, Ed. – 1986
Program presentations on issues related to the use of statistics by research libraries and business meeting minutes are combined in this report from the Association of Research Libraries (ARL). The full text is provided for the three papers on the program theme that were presented at the meeting: (1) "Information to Manage--The Economics of…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Conferences, Data Collection, Data Interpretation
McEwen, Hazel E., Ed. – 1974
Recent technological advances in computers and communications make possible the integration of data systems and the exchange of data among them on an expanding scale. However, the full effect of these advances cannot be realized unless the need for uniform understanding of the common information (data elements) and its expression in data systems…
Descriptors: Administration, Computer Programs, Conference Reports, Conferences
Deboeck, Guido; Kinsey, Bill – 1980
The study summarizes discussions and conclusions of the Regional Workshop on Monitoring and Evaluation of Rural Development Projects in East Africa (Nairobi, Kenya, April 1979), whose purpose was to share lessons learned from field experiences in managing information for rural development. An initial section summarizes information in papers…
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Change Agents, Data Analysis, Data Collection
Deboeck, Guido; Ng, Ronald – 1980
The paper presents results of discussions during an 8-day workshop (Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, December 1979) on monitoring and evaluation (M&E) of East Asian and Pacific rural development projects. Major workshop themes identified are managerial, technical, and institutional aspects of monitoring. The introduction discusses previous World Bank…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Administrator Role, Change Agents, Consultants
Robinson, Robert J. – 1976
This paper proposes construction of a separate data base environment for university planning information, distinct from data bases and systems supporting operational functioning and management. The data base would receive some of its input from the management information systems (MIS)/transactional data bases and systems through a process of…
Descriptors: College Administration, Computer Programs, Data Processing, Databases
American Federation of Information Processing Societies, Montvale, NJ. – 1982
A national symposium was held October 4-7, 1981, to explore the relationships among law, ethics, and informational technology as they relate to the individual's informational privacy. The introduction to this report describes the conference format; discusses the Privacy Act of 1974 and the Freedom of Information Act; and offers definitions of…
Descriptors: Confidentiality, Data Collection, Ethics, Information Processing
Fretwell, Jan, Ed.; Thomas, Charles R., Ed. – 1977
This is a collection of papers presented at an annual conference of the College and University Systems Exchange (CAUSE). Conference activities included a keynote address, general session, and five tracks of presentations: (1) Information Systems Development and Management's Expectations; (2) Information Systems Benefit Analysis; (3) Small College…
Descriptors: College Administration, Computer Oriented Programs, Conference Reports, Data Processing
Northwest Regional Educational Lab., Portland, OR. Assessment and Evaluation Program. – 1985
This report comprises edited versions of the presentations from the 17 participants in a conference under the sponsoreship of the Northwest Regional Educational Laboratory. The conference was designed to enable policy-makers, educators, and business people to share perspectives on the most effective methods for identifying and collecting data that…
Descriptors: Accountability, Data Collection, Databases, Decision Making
Mann, Richard L.; Thomas, Charles R. – 1976
This is a collection of papers presented at an annual conference of the College and University Systems Exchange (CAUSE). Thirty-one papers are reproduced in their entirety and 39 are presented as abstracts. Of the 31 complete papers, 12 have been individually abstracted for "Resources in Education" (RIE). The major topics of the…
Descriptors: College Administration, Computer Oriented Programs, Conference Reports, Cost Effectiveness
Friberg, Ingegerd, Ed. – 1982
The Fourth International Research Forum in Information Science (IRFIS 4) focused on two themes: user-oriented research in information science and experimental and practical investigations of the mediation and use of information. An opening speech by Bjorn Tell reviewed information research policy in the United States, France, England, Japan, the…
Descriptors: Action Research, Communication Problems, Databases, Documentation
Husbands, Charles W., Ed.; Tighe, Ruth L., Ed. – 1975
This volume of Proceedings of the American Society for Information Science is limited to the text of papers accepted and scheduled for presentation at the 1975 meeting. The papers reflect the need to address and define issues in national information policy, and they examine the current state of federal-level planning and funding of information…
Descriptors: Automation, Communications, Computer Oriented Programs, Computers