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Download full textCenter for the Future of Teaching and Learning, 2007
Reliable and current data is the foundation upon which good public policymaking is built. While California collects a good deal of data on its teaching workforce, policymakers have lacked a state-level data and analysis system to provide answers to even some of the most basic questions: How many credential holders actually take jobs? In what types…
Descriptors: State Agencies, Inferences, Teacher Supply and Demand, Management Information Systems
Song, Qiang; Hebbler, Stephen W. – 1991
The Comprehensive Evaluation System (CES), a comprehensive computer program system designed for the implementation of statewide standards for all schools and school systems in Georgia, is described. The system, mandated by state reform legislation, was conceived as a set of standards ranging from legal adherence through standards of excellent…
Descriptors: Compliance (Legal), Computer Software Development, Databases, Educational Change
Dorr-Bremme, Donald W. – 1986
The Center for the Study of Evaluation at the University of California, Los Angeles, collaborated with school site personnel in an attempt to build an on-going, comprehensive, school-based information system useful in instructional decision making and general school renewal. Conducted at a suburban senior high school over an 18-month period, the…
Descriptors: Computer Managed Instruction, Data Collection, Demography, High Schools
Streatfield, David; Thompson, Sue – 1983
A 1983 survey conducted in England and Wales by the Education Management Information Exchange and the Society of Education Officers Industry Committee examined the widespread administrative use of computers and related technology in Local Education Authorities (LEA's). This report summarizes responses from 95 of the 108 LEA's in the survey area.…
Descriptors: Educational Administration, Educational Technology, Elementary Secondary Education, Foreign Countries
Finlayson, Jean, Ed. – Coombe Lodge Report, 1989
This collection of papers addresses key questions facing college managers and others choosing, introducing, and living with big, complex computer-based systems. "What Use the User Requirement?" (Tony Coles) stresses the importance of an information strategy driven by corporate objectives, not technology. "Process of Selecting a…
Descriptors: College Administration, Computer System Design, Evaluation Criteria, Foreign Countries
Evancoe, Donna C. – CAUSE/EFFECT, 1984
The issues and processes that were important in the selection and implementation of an administrative computer system at Marymount Manhattan College are described. System analysis, system design, selection criteria, institutional decision processes, implementation steps, user acceptance, and organizational impact are discussed. (Author/MLW)
Descriptors: Church Related Colleges, College Administration, College Environment, Computer Oriented Programs
Peer reviewedPillinger, Barbara Baxter; Kraack, Thomas A. – NASPA Journal, 1981
Presents a long-range planning model developed from varied approaches to planning and decision making. The model outlines categories representing planning needs and specifies objectives for each category. Categories are also matched with planning agencies. (RC)
Descriptors: Decision Making, Educational Administration, Educational Planning, Formative Evaluation
Hollowell, David E. – CAUSE/EFFECT, 1978
A major information systems planning study undertaken by Boston University and recommendations that were made to enable the university to meet the new demands and changing priorities of educational management are discussed. (BH)
Descriptors: Case Studies, College Administration, College Planning, Computer Science
Penrod, James I.; Craft, Larry N. – CAUSE/EFFECT, 1978
The planning, design, and implementation of an information system at Pepperdine University in California is described. The difficulties of total redesign and new programing of a management information system are explained and recommendations for this process are made. (BH)
Descriptors: Case Studies, Change Strategies, College Administration, Computer Science
Balkan, Lore; Sheldon, Philip – CAUSE/EFFECT, 1990
The offices of Information Resource Management and Institutional Research at Virginia Tech developed a set of guidelines for information management. This article describes the historical evolution, the forces that motivated the development of the guidelines, and the consensus-building activities that led to the acceptance of the guidelines.…
Descriptors: Advisory Committees, College Administration, Computer Software Development, Databases
Peer reviewedWentling, Tim L.; Roegge, Chris A. – Evaluation Review, 1991
An outcomes-based model was developed to evaluate vocational education programs in Illinois. The model, which evaluates programs based on six vital signs of program quality, uses a series of computer technology expert systems to give local personnel assistance in exploring program problems and improvement. (SLD)
Descriptors: Computer Uses in Education, Curriculum Development, Curriculum Evaluation, Expert Systems
Hamre, William – 1987
An overview is provided of progress in the development of a management information system for the California community colleges. First, background is presented on the current Uniform Statewide Reporting System (USRS), and problems with the system are identified and discussed (i.e., lack of student outcome information, unintegrated data, lack of…
Descriptors: Administrative Organization, Boards of Education, Classification, Community Colleges
CAUSE, Boulder, CO. – 1988
Seven papers from the 1987 CAUSE conference's Track II, Innovative Management, are presented. They include: "Is This Creative, or What!" (Kenneth C. Blythe); "Joint Application Design: Can a User Committee Design a System in Four Days?" (Diane Kent, David Smithers); "Making It Happen without Appropriation" (Robert E.…
Descriptors: Budgeting, Committees, Computer Software, Computer Uses in Education
Breslow, Martin P. – 1972
The developmental paper, one of a series written as the Management Information System for Occupational Education (MISOE) was conceptualized, is a first attempt to picture the computer system necessary to carry out the project's goals. It describes the basic structure and the anticipated strategies of development of the computer system to be used.…
Descriptors: Computer Programs, Data Analysis, Data Collection, Data Processing
Creager, John A. – 1972
As the first of two papers delineating the design of Massachusetts' Management and Information System for Occupational Education (MISOE), these specific dimensions of MISOE structure and function are considered: (1) the distinction between economic and noneconomic analysis, (2) distinctions among census, sample, and other data, (3) the distinction…
Descriptors: Algorithms, Design Preferences, Economic Research, Educational Planning
