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Download full textHarris, Yeuell Y. – 1980
As an aid for administrators in state and local education agencies, community colleges, and noneducational service agencies, this handbook tells how to gather community information needed for educational planning and decision-making. Information sources, terminology, and definitions are included, as well as guidelines for the use of such data. The…
Descriptors: Community Characteristics, Community Surveys, Data Analysis, Data Collection
Collier, Douglas J.; Allen, Richard H. – 1980
This data providers' guide, the first volume of the revised "Higher Education Finance Manual," comprehensively describes national financial reporting standards, including those prescribed for the Higher Education General Information Survey (HEGIS) reports, and includes the information needed to comply with those standards. General…
Descriptors: Accounting, Classification, Comparative Analysis, Data Collection
Peer reviewedParker, Dana J. – CD-ROM Professional, 1995
Discusses CD-ROM development, including common production terms (data acquisition, rights acquisition, data conversion, indexing, authoring, premastering, image building, replication); describes the roles of project team members (script writers, artists, designers, programmers, managers, distributors); and explains the differences between CD-ROM…
Descriptors: Computer Software Development, Definitions, Jargon, Optical Data Disks
Collier, Douglas J.; Allen, Richard H. – 1980
The second volume of the revised "Higher Education Finance Manual" (HEFM), this data users' guide is oriented to the nonaccountant and describes the kinds of information about postsecondary education that can be derived from institutional financial data. Contents include: a description of fund accounting for higher education, a…
Descriptors: Accounting, Classification, Comparative Analysis, Data Analysis
Jones, Dennis P.; And Others – 1979
Intended to foster a common language for information exchange about library operations and resources, this handbook provides library managers, boards of trustees, and other library decisionmakers with guidance in identifying items of information from which to obtain factual and comparative data for (1) developing policies and decisions; (2)…
Descriptors: Data Collection, Definitions, Glossaries, Guides
Collier, Douglas J. – 1980
The results of a 1977 assessment of the value of uniform financial data for the Oregon community college system are described. The utility of both programmatic data and auditable accounting data is also addressed. Business managers, presidents, and governing board chairmen at four community colleges and representatives of six different state…
Descriptors: Accounting, Case Studies, Classification, College Administration
National Center for Higher Education Management Systems, Boulder, CO. – 1988
This manual contains descriptions of all required and optional data elements used by LONESTAR, the computer-based student follow-up and tracking system developed for Texas community colleges. For each element, the following information is provided: (1) element title (i.e., the official name used in all references to the element in tracking system…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Data Collection, Databases, Definitions
Allen, Richard H. – 1980
A companion document to the three-volume "Higher Education Finance Manual," which is intended to guide those completing the Higher Education General Information Survey (HEGIS) Financial Statistics of Institutions of Higher Education, is presented. While it is based on the data required for 1978-79, the guide can provide guidance in…
Descriptors: Accounting, Compliance (Legal), Educational Finance, Expenditures
Flanagan, W. Malcolm – 1984
A project was conducted by Missouri LINC to create a computerized data bank of entry and exit-level competencies that could be applied to special education students in vocational education. The competencies that were developed through that project are contained in this guide. They are expected to be useful for vocational and special education…
Descriptors: Agricultural Occupations, Allied Health Occupations, Appliance Repair, Auto Body Repairers
