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Download full textBezruczko, Nikolaus; Zell, Adrienne – 1993
The shift away from norm-referenced tests to authentic samples of child performance, such as writing and drawing samples, poses serious problems in organizing and analyzing assessments of child performance. This paper proposes a process utilizing the large-scale storage capacity of centralized mainframe computers and the flexibility and efficiency…
Descriptors: Computer Oriented Programs, Data Collection, Databases, Early Childhood Education
Adcock, Eugene P.; Haseltine, Reginald – 1996
The Prince George's County (Maryland) school system has developed a database warehouse system as an evaluation data support tool for fulfilling the system's information demands. This paper described the Research and Evaluation Assimilation Database (READ) warehouse support system and considers the requirements for data used in evaluation and how…
Descriptors: Data Analysis, Data Collection, Databases, Elementary Secondary Education
Ingels, Steven J.; And Others – 1992
This user's manual has been produced to familiarize data users with the procedures followed for data collection and processing of the first follow-up teacher component of the National Education Longitudinal Study of 1988 (NELS:88). The teacher component provides teacher information that can be used to analyze the behaviors and outcomes of the…
Descriptors: Data Collection, Data Processing, Databases, Evaluation Utilization
New York Univ., NY. Inst. for Education and Social Policy. – 1998
This report describes some of the major New York City Board of Education automated data collection systems and databases, and the ways in which information about individual students in these databases is collected from the schools, aggregated by staff in different central Board of Education offices, and used in school- and district-level reports.…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Records, Bilingual Education, Computer Uses in Education
Chiang, Eleanor Yin – 1986
This report describes the development in 1986 of a management information system by the Sacramento City (California) Unified School District for use in high schools. A nine-page attachment, which comprises two-thirds of the report, offers profiles of selected schools drawn from the databases. Data sets of 200 information items, collected from all…
Descriptors: Computer Oriented Programs, Data Collection, Data Processing, Database Management Systems
Schlenker, Richard M. – 1988
This document suggests that the activity described can be used from kindergarten through adulthood. The activity involves measuring, counting, categorizing, group processes, construction of computer data base files, construction and/or use of data tables, data gathering, making observations, the study of shape, the computation of area, the…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Oriented Programs, Data Analysis, Data Collection
Sophomore Cohort Postsecondary Education Transcript Study. High School and Beyond. Technical Report.
Knight, Shirley; And Others – 1988
Procedures are described that were used to collect and process postsecondary school transcripts for a subsample of members of the younger (i.e. 1980 sophomore) cohort of the High School and Beyond study who attended postsecondary institutions at any time after leaving high school. Five chapters are as follows: (1) introduction (the National Center…
Descriptors: Academic Records, College Bound Students, Computer Uses in Education, Data Analysis
Stemberger, Joseph Paul – Transcript Analysis, 1985
A listing of substantial, known adult speech error corpora includes seven major corpora in English, 11 in languages other than English (German, Swedish, Dutch, Norwegian, Portuguese, Japanese, and Thai), information on seven collectors of smaller English samples, and two references for anecdotal samples, one in French and one in Welsh. Each major…
Descriptors: Adults, Data Collection, Databases, Directories
Armes, Nancy, Ed.; And Others – 1984
Designed to provide guidelines for the development of computerized student information systems, this report raises policy issues and questions to be resolved at the campus level and describes a variety of computer-generated reports and records that can assist in educational decision making and planning. Introductory material discusses the…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Computer Oriented Programs, Data Collection, Databases
Davis, J. A.; Collins, Elmer – 1975
The National Longitudinal Study of the High School Class of 1972 (NLS) is a federally supported longitudinal study of a national sample of some 23,000 young people first surveyed as high school seniors in the spring of 1972. The historical precedents of such a study include the work of Friend and Haggert in a Boston settlement house, Louis…
Descriptors: Agency Cooperation, Data Collection, Databases, Federal Programs
Liston, David M.; And Others – 1978
The ERIC network conversion to an OCR (Optical Character Recognition) mode of data entry was studied to analyze the potential effectiveness of OCR data entry for future EPC/s (Editorial Processing Centers). Study results are also applicable to any other system involving decentralized bibliographic data capture and conversion functions. The report…
Descriptors: Character Recognition, Citations (References), Cost Effectiveness, Data Collection
Taylor, William H. – 1978
The System for Program Information in Continuing Education (SPICE), an information system being implemented at The University of Calgary (Alberta, Canada), was designed to facilitate the collection, manipulation, and reporting of evaluative data from continuing education program participants. The objectives of the system include the following: to…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Programs, Data Analysis, Data Collection
Finlayson, Jean, Ed. – Coombe Lodge Report, 1979
Four papers discuss the use of management information systems (MIS) in institutions for further education (that is, adult education) in England. A brief introduction notes the problems of initiating MIS during a time of declining financial support. The first paper presents arguments for the use of MIS at the technical college level, suggests areas…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Computer Programs, Data Analysis, Data Collection
Lunney, Gerald H.; Watters, Eric D. – 1980
The policy implications of the State Level Information Base (SLIB) project of the National Center for Higher Education Management was examined by the Council of Independent Kentucky Colleges and Universities. The original purpose of the SLIB project was to develop a comprehensive and coordinated set of data elements that could serve each state's…
Descriptors: Administrative Policy, Data Analysis, Data Collection, Databases
Watters, Eric D.; Lunney, Gerald H. – 1980
A description is presented of the first two years of a review that assessed the State Level Information Base (SLIB) project of the National Center for Higher Education Management. The Council of Independent Kentucky Colleges and Universities undertook this investigation to determine the relevance of an externally developed data system for…
Descriptors: Administrative Policy, Data Analysis, Data Collection, Databases
