The Ideal Educational Information System: Is It Possible...or Desirable?.

Lawton, Stephen B.

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ERIC Number: EJ630823

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Publication Date: 2001

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The Ideal Educational Information System: Is It Possible...or Desirable?

Lawton, Stephen B.

School Business Affairs, v67 n6 p14-18 Jun 2001

A data-management system adhering to seven principles (concerned with defining and measuring characteristics and their interrelationships) is feasible and exists in parts, if not as an integrated whole. Present data-collection and reportage systems lack the real-time, analytic longitudinal characteristics that contemporary technology promises and educators desire. (MLH)

Descriptors: Administrative Problems, Data Analysis, Data Interpretation, Database Management Systems, Definitions, Elementary Secondary Education, Evaluation Criteria, Information Management, Institutional Characteristics, Measurement, Standards

Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Evaluative

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Language: English

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