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Echt, Sandy; And Others – Online, 1981
Describes the operation of an automated system that manipulates statistics for the online search service at the Texas Christian University Library. Sample input and worksheets are displayed. (FM)
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Bookkeeping, Computer Programs, Data Processing
Coffin, Robert – 1968
This appendix describes the Integrated Communications Experiment (ICE), a comprehensive computer software capability developed for the ComField Project. Each major characteristic of the data processing system is treated separately: natural language processing, flexibility, noninterference with the educational process, multipurposeness,…
Descriptors: Computer Oriented Programs, Data Processing, Information Retrieval, Information Storage
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College and University, 1980
Proceedings of the 66th Annual Meeting of the American Association of Collegiate Registrars and Admissions Officers are summarized which relate to planning and management programs and techniques and system development. Names and institutions of conference participants are included. (MSE)
Descriptors: College Administration, College Admission, College Planning, Conferences
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Eckholm, David J. – College and University, 1983
A computerized student record system will incorporate several characteristics including: reduction of data redundancy, data storage by student, historical data cumulation, effective and efficient maintenance of records, flexibility, etc. (MLW)
Descriptors: College Administration, Computer Oriented Programs, Data Processing, Higher Education
Yost, Michael – 1983
An integrated student information system (ISIS) at Trinity University (Texas) is described with attention to how data are entered and how data are extracted for purposes of institutional research. The structure of the original ISIS files, the extract files, and the Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (SPSS) files is examined. An outline is…
Descriptors: College Administration, Computer Oriented Programs, Data Analysis, Data Processing
Evans, Max J. – 1983
The Wisconsin Machine-Readable Records Project was conducted by the State Historical Society of Wisconsin between August 1981 and July 1983 as a follow-up to the Wisconsin Survey of Machine-Readable Public Records. Both projects assessed the impact of computer technology on record keeping by state government agencies and addressed the implications…
Descriptors: Archives, Computers, Data Processing, Government Publications
Evans, Max J.; And Others – 1982
This document serves as the final report to the National Historical Publications and Records Commission (NHPRC) of the work of the Midwest State Archives Guide Project. The project involved the state archives in Minnesota, Illinois, Indiana, and Wisconsin, and was expected to contribute to a projected national guide project database, though when…
Descriptors: Archives, Computers, Data Processing, Government Publications
McManus, John F. – 1972
The automated identification of students as they progress through an instructional program is described as an essential capability of the Southwest Regional Laboratory's (SWRL) Instructional Management System (IMS). Performance characteristics of procedures for linking data to individual students (whose records are maintained by IMS) are…
Descriptors: Computer Programs, Data Processing, Databases, Design
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Gibbs, Gordon L. – 1972
During the 1971-72 pilot test of the Southwest Regional Laboratory's (SWRL) Instructional Management System (IMS), three alternative procedures were used to gather data within the classroom, transmit those data to SWRL for processing, and send IMS output to the appropriate recipients in the schools. ComSys 3--one of the three…
Descriptors: Computer Programs, Data, Data Processing, Databases
Wilson, John D. – 1971
This document describes a data processing system now being implemented that is designed to provide rapid retrieval of information concerning a certificate holder's status. A brief history of past and present methods of teacher certification processing is included. These methods are then compared to the system currently being implemented. The new…
Descriptors: Computer Output Microfilm, Cost Estimates, Credentials, Data Processing
Davidson County Community Coll., Lexington, NC. – 1973
Educational institutions typically have data filed in many forms in many locations, making the task of gathering relevant data for any purpose a difficult process. The Davidson Community College approached the problem by studying management information systems in other North Carolina institutions, searching ERIC, and pursuing leads in journals of…
Descriptors: Colleges, Computer Oriented Programs, Data Collection, Data Processing
Warner, Donna D.; And Others – 1972
This manual describes procedures for collecting, recording, and reporting in a uniform, timely manner critical information necessary to the making of key management decisions for parent child centers as well as for the parent child center program. The first section describes recommended data collection and recordkeeping procedures for such…
Descriptors: Counseling Services, Data Collection, Data Processing, Decision Making
Abt Associates, Inc., Cambridge, MA. – 1973
The objectives of this volume are to present the National Data Coordinator with an overview of the document input-output relationships, explain data validation and processing procedures required to produce the Quarterly Management Reports from input documents submitted by the Parent Child Centers (PCC's), and to specify system resource…
Descriptors: Counseling Services, Data Collection, Data Processing, Decision Making
Abt Associates, Inc., Cambridge, MA. – 1973
The Parent Child Center Management Information System, the first operational MIS for a social action program relating to child welfare, consists of three interlocking components: a standard set of recordkeeping forms for the local Parent Child Center; a set of quarterly reporting forms that interface with the recordkeeping forms; and a series of…
Descriptors: Child Welfare, Counseling Services, Data Collection, Data Processing
Keister, Stephen D. – 1978
A recommendation is made for computerization of student records in the Graduate School of the University of Toledo, because of insufficient space for record storage, clumsy retrieval methods, difficult interfiling methods, long waits for grade and credit-hour updates, lack of staff time for attention to recordkeeping, and costly and ineffective…
Descriptors: Academic Records, Administrative Change, College Administration, Computer Oriented Programs