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Download full textCongress of the U.S., Washington, DC. House Committee on Education and Labor. – 1982
This is a report of a hearing on December 10, 1981, before the Subcommittee on Elementary, Secondary, and Vocational Education of the Committee on Education and Labor, House of Representatives, regarding reauthorization of the Vocational Education Act of 1963. It focuses on the vocational education data system known as VEDS. Testimony includes…
Descriptors: Data Analysis, Data Collection, Hearings, Information Systems
Optical Information Systems, 1987
These proposed standards prepared by the CD-ROM Ad Hoc Advisory Committee (the "High Sierra Group") specify the volume and file structure of compact read-only optical discs (CD-ROM) for the interchange of information between users of information processing systems. (Author/LRW)
Descriptors: Information Processing, Information Systems, Information Transfer, Optical Data Disks
General Accounting Office, Washington, DC. – 1987
This report documents the findings of an evaluation of the effectiveness of the information resources management aspects of the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1980 (Public Law 96-511) which went into effect on April 1, 1981. (This law was enacted as a result of concerns that the government must improve its collection, use, and dissemination of…
Descriptors: Accountability, Agency Role, Costs, Data Processing
California State Postsecondary Education Commission, Sacramento. – 1986
A feasibility plan is presented for a California comprehensive student information study that would identify factors affecting students' progress through California's entire educational system. The feasibility plan identifies: (1) potential improvements, (2) the study design required to achieve them, (3) the cost of implementing the design,…
Descriptors: Articulation (Education), College Students, Data Collection, Databases
Blanchette, Cornelia M. – 1997
This statement of Cornelia M. Blanchette to the U.S. Senate Committee on Labor and Human Reources discusses Department of Education information management systems that support the financial aid programs authorized by Title IV of the Higher Education Act of 1965, as amended. These programs help the Federal Family Education Loan Program (FFELP), the…
Descriptors: Accountability, Compliance (Legal), Data Collection, Databases
US House of Representatives, 2004
This hearing focused on: (1) what data States collect to monitor the care and supervision of children in foster care and children for whom adoption subsidies are paid; (2) how that data is used today; and (3) what additional data or applications of these data might better ensure the safety, permanency, and well-being of children. Testimony was…
Descriptors: Foster Care, Child Welfare, At Risk Persons, Children
Putnam, John F. – 1981
A handbook of terms and definitions for describing students in postsecondary education includes technical and vocational schools as well as various forms of adult education and nontraditional study. Input was gathered from 40 national organizations and 29 federal agencies; 20 organizations and agencies provided field test sites. The guide's…
Descriptors: Academic Aspiration, Classification, College Admission, Confidential Records
