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Brett, Catherine A. – 1993
As part of a restructuring initiative to meet the curriculum needs of the "Information Age," a plan for teaching telecommunications to middle school students was developed. The resulting program, called Bulletin Board Simulator (BBS), provided a hands-on approach to teaching students the skills necessary for accessing an electronic…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Oriented Programs, Curriculum Development, Databases
Download full textLovelace, Bill E.; LaBrecque, Suzanne V. – 1991
One part of a five-phase study was conducted to develop a database that identifies the professional improvement needs of postsecondary health occupations educators as expressed by individuals responding to a survey and to disseminate the findings of the needs assessment to the coordinators/directors of local institutions for planning faculty…
Descriptors: Allied Health Occupations Education, Community Colleges, Competency Based Education, Databases
Bader, Shelley A.; Piemme, Thomas E. – 1991
This report presents the objectives, methodology, and results of a study which assessed the selection and utilization of four MEDLINE search systems by faculty and medical residents at the George Washington University Medical Center. The four systems, which were provided or sponsored by the Himmelfarb Health Sciences Library, offer a wide range of…
Descriptors: Computer Software, Databases, Faculty, Higher Education
Cohen, Shirley – 1980
A report of a project that established systems of respite care and training of parents who have developmentally disabled members in their home is presented. Attention is directed to project objectives, activities, and outcomes and to the following specific components: collection and analysis of data on factors promoting utilization and…
Descriptors: College Students, Databases, Demonstration Programs, Developmental Disabilities
National Center for Education Statistics (ED), Washington, DC. – 1986
Documentation is provided to aid users of a file that contains data on financial aid and school costs for a sample of students in the 1985-86 school year. Each record contains information from the school registrar's office, from the student financial aid office record, and from a questionnaire completed by students. There are 3,774 records on the…
Descriptors: Academic Records, College Students, Data Collection, Databases
Cosby, John – 1989
A computer assisted instructional program was developed for teaching data processing technicians at Naval Recruiting Command in New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut to create database records using CONDOR Database Management System Software. The procedure used in developing the program was based upon the Dick and Carey model of instructional…
Descriptors: Authoring Aids (Programing), Computer Assisted Instruction, Courseware, Database Management Systems
Sitts, Maxine K., Ed. – 1986
Based on information and data from 113 Association of Research Libraries (ARL) members that were gathered and updated between March and August 1986, this publication was generated from a database developed by ARL to provide timely, comparable information about the extent and nature of automation within the ARL community. Trends in automation are…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Databases, Higher Education, Information Systems
Mech, Terrence – 1985
Designed to introduce education students to the basic library resources in the field, this self-paced workbook assumes a basic knowledge of the library and its resources. Each section in the eight-chapter workbook discusses a particular type of reference material and sample entries are provided when appropriate. Eleven assignments (two multiple…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Databases, Educational Resources, Encyclopedias
Wang, Vicky; Lau, Shuk-fong – 1990
Two years after the introduction of CD-ROM bibliographic database searching in the Memphis State University libraries (Tennessee), a survey was conducted to examine students' attitudes toward the business database, ABI/INFORM. ABI/INFORM contains indexes and abstracts of articles from over 800 journals on management, accounting, banking, human…
Descriptors: Bibliographic Databases, College Students, Factor Analysis, Higher Education
Moline, Arlett E.; Hendel, Darwin D. – 1992
A study was done of ways to use data from the Cooperative Institutional Research Programs (CIRP) to provide information on policy questions related to international education. The CIRP survey is an annual project that provides participating institutions with the opportunity to use the database to explore questions concerning an institution's…
Descriptors: Asian Americans, College Freshmen, Data Analysis, Databases
Blackburn, Jennifer O. – 1993
A survey of public library users was conducted regarding retrieval results of unassisted user searches in general periodical indexes. The data were analyzed to evaluate the impact or lack of impact of searching a CD-ROM index with loosely-controlled vocabulary and expanded-search capabilities (i.e., InfoTrac-General Periodicals Index) versus a…
Descriptors: Authority Control (Information), Comparative Analysis, Databases, Indexes
Bock, H. Darrell – 1992
The hardware and software system used to create the National Opinion Research Center/Center for Research on Evaluation, Standards, and Student Testing (NORC/CRESST) item databases and test booklets for the 12th-grade science assessment are described. A general description of the capabilities of the system is given, with some specific information…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Testing, Computer Graphics, Computer Software, Databases
Shaw, Suzanne J. – 1989
This document reports the results of a follow-up survey of 34 Association of Research Libraries member libraries which was conducted in 1989 to measure changes that had taken place in the administration of computer files (CF)--previously referred to as machine readable data files--since the original survey in 1984. It is noted that this survey…
Descriptors: Cataloging, Databases, Information Management, Information Retrieval
Coffey, Janis Cox – 1984
The Regional Employment and Training Needs Assessment (RETNA) project was organized to determine both current and projected employment and training needs in specific industries and occupations in the Sacramento area. The project involves the development of a prototypical computerized database developed from survey research on employment needs and…
Descriptors: Community Surveys, Computer Oriented Programs, Databases, Educational Needs
Byrne, Desiree Kornrum – Online Submission, 2006
The economic success of the state of Texas is dependent upon future market participants having access to higher education. The ability of Texas citizens to access higher education is dependent upon access to financial aid resources to pay for higher education. Much is known about the impact of particular financial aid outcomes on access and…
Descriptors: Program Effectiveness, Higher Education, Databases, Public Colleges
