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Roman, Thomas M. – School Business Affairs, 1980
A guideline to aid business officials who are contemplating or engaged in computerization. (Author)
Descriptors: Computer Programs, Computer Science, Cost Effectiveness, Data Processing
Bay, Robert E. – School Business Affairs, 1993
Successful introduction of major new software applications requires worker commitment, inservice training, and communication. Cost justification considers the cost of computer purchase, installation, inservice training, salary, time lost due to "bugs," plus the cost of modifications. (MLF)
Descriptors: Computer Software Development, Computer Software Selection, Cost Effectiveness, Data Processing
Brewer, Robert A. – School Business Affairs, 1994
The Electronic Data Transfer (EDT) network for Connecticut local school districts encompasses nine major databases and provides dozens of online data reports to network users. At a low cost and high degree of success, EDT has improved the data collection and reconciliation process at the state and local levels and generated a capacity for…
Descriptors: Computer Networks, Cost Effectiveness, Data Processing, Electronic Mail
Edwards, Bert T. – School Business Affairs, 1978
Describes measures designed to minimize errors in the summarization and reporting of financial and operating data as well as to minimize the opportunities for misuse of a school system's assets. (Author)
Descriptors: Accountability, Cost Effectiveness, Data Processing, Educational Finance
School Business Affairs, 1980
A school computer network at the Carlsbad Unified School District (California) has computerized student attendance records, registration, and school accounting. (Author/MLF)
Descriptors: Attendance Records, Computer Science, Cost Effectiveness, Data Processing
Libonate, George A., Jr.; Hughes, Jonathan T. – Educational Computer, 1982
To support the position that the use of computers can make educational administration more cost-effective, the minicomputer-based information system in the Ridgeway Public School District in New Jersey is described. A model of the information system is included. (JJD)
Descriptors: Computer Oriented Programs, Cost Effectiveness, Data Processing, Educational Administration
American School and University, 1982
Michigan's Wayne County Intermediate School District, which serves 36 constituent districts, has converted from a centralized to a distributed computer system, resulting in improved and expanded data processing service to local district administrators, staff, and students at a substantially lower cost. (Author/MLF)
Descriptors: Computer Oriented Programs, Cost Effectiveness, Data Processing, Databases
Wold, Geoffrey H. – School Business Affairs, 1988
School districts need a strategic, comprehensive, electronic data processing resources plan that would include the following major elements: (1) systems; (2) hardware; (3) software; (4) staffing; (5) control; and (6) projected budgets. (MLF)
Descriptors: Budgeting, Computer Software, Computer Uses in Education, Cost Effectiveness
Novak, Carl D.; Burnett, J. Thomas – 1986
This report (1) describes a Nebraska school district's implementation of a central data processing capability and (2) summarizes study findings researched in cooperation with International Business Machines (IBM). In the mid-seventies, the district hired data processing personnel and introduced microcomputers into buildings; lack of…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Cost Effectiveness, Data Processing, Elementary Secondary Education
Glick, Oren – 1976
The Franklin Pierce School District, a semi-rural, semi-urban district located south of Tacoma, Washington, was one of the Experimental School Projects (ESP) initially funded by the National Institute of Education. The Franklin Pierce ESP provides an optimal learning environment for each student, with special emphasis placed upon transient,…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Cost Effectiveness, Curriculum Development, Data Processing
International Association for Development of the Information Society, 2012
The IADIS CELDA 2012 Conference intention was to address the main issues concerned with evolving learning processes and supporting pedagogies and applications in the digital age. There had been advances in both cognitive psychology and computing that have affected the educational arena. The convergence of these two disciplines is increasing at a…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Persistence, Academic Support Services, Access to Computers