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Kiser, Chester – 1984
This paper defines problems of school officials in dealing with the new information society, and suggests a planning framework applicable to the design of school and district microcomputer systems. Educators' problems in addressing the demands and opportunities of the emergent information society include inadequate comprehension of a major shift…
Descriptors: Computer Oriented Programs, Educational Administration, Educational Planning, Educational Trends
Crowther, Warren – 1984
This article addresses the conditions of developing countries which must be taken into account in developing information strategies for their public and educational institutions or projects. Its central argument is that newer information science concepts, although they demand technological and conceptual sophistication, can be useful in the…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Developing Nations, Human Resources, Information Needs
Graeber, Anna O.; And Others – 1984
This report describes and evaluates efforts to enhance school districts' capacity to implement and institutionalize the monitoring and management system for an instructional leadership program called Achievement Directed Leadership (ADL). Chapter one introduces the report's methodology, limitations, and structure. Chapter two first states the…
Descriptors: Educational Strategies, Elementary Secondary Education, Instructional Improvement, Management Systems
Clauset, Karl H., Jr.; Gaynor, Alan K. – 1983
An examination of definition, causes, variables, and strategies of implementation suggests the kinds of data necessary for measuring school effectiveness. By focusing on students who first enter school below grade level standards and by understanding that student learning is embedded in a system of key elements or variables that, over time, are…
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Elementary Secondary Education, Feedback, Improvement Programs
International Labour Office, Geneva (Switzerland). – 1984
The International Labour Office (ILO) is in the process of developing an Inter-Regional Training Information System (IRTIS) for developing countries. This system aims at the introduction of common standards and techniques, in all regions and at the national level, for processing and retrieval of information on training. This report elaborates a…
Descriptors: Developing Nations, Foreign Countries, Information Dissemination, Information Networks
Bizot, Judithe – 1975
In 1970 the Commission for Educational Reform, established by Peru's revolutionary government, published its General Report giving a detailed analysis of the old system's shortcomings, a statement of the philosophical principles which should guide any alternative system, and a description of the form which such an alternative pattern might take.…
Descriptors: American Indians, Change Strategies, Decentralization, Educational Change
Kim, Jin Eun – 1978
A project was developed to improve vocational administrators' program management skills through diffusion of the cost-effectiveness analysis system which was developed at Indiana University-Bloomington. Specific objectives were (1) to summarize the cost-effectiveness analysis system, (2) to develop a conceptual framework for the system's diffusion…
Descriptors: Budgeting, Conceptual Schemes, Conferences, Cost Effectiveness
Tawney, James W. – 1977
The project described was designed to develop prototype electronically controlled learning environments in home settings, in order to provide instruction for persons with assumed severe developmental retardation and attendant multiple handicaps. The first of nine sections in this report contains the justification for the project, abstracted…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Diffusion, Educational Innovation, Elementary Secondary Education
Hannon, Joseph P.; And Others – 1978
The four projects in management analysis described in this report are interrelated parts of a planning and development scheme in selected areas of the Chicago public school system. One project, the long-range system-wide planning process, is the means whereby the school system determines its multi-year priorities. A recommended strategy for…
Descriptors: Administrator Education, Educational Administration, Educational Planning, Elementary Secondary Education
Fitzhugh, Robert J. – 1978
This paper oriented for new researchers entering the field of CAI research discusses the research experience in this area, outlines some of the important computer requirements of CAI research, and proposes a conservative computer development strategy to meet those requirements. The development of PLATO and TICCIT are described as examples of the…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Managed Instruction, Computer Oriented Programs, Educational Research
Hayman, John; Floyd, Mike – 1980
A plan is presented herein for development of a Rural Education Information System for the 10 states which comprise the Southeastern Regional Council for Educational Improvement. Since the Council considers its principal function to be support of educational policy analysis and formation in its member states, the information system design…
Descriptors: Data Collection, Databases, Educational Improvement, Educational Policy
Young, Micki Jo; And Others – 1978
This book for library administrators and Federal library staff covers the application of minicomputers in Federal libraries and offers a review of minicomputer technology. A brief overview of automation explains computer technology, hardware, and software. The role of computers in libraries is examined in terms of the history of computers and…
Descriptors: Computer Programs, Computer Storage Devices, Computers, Government Libraries
SCHIEBER, WILLIAM D.; SHOFFNER, RALPH M. – 1968
A MONTH LONG EXPERIMENT USING TELEFACSIMILE EQUIPMENT OFFERED AN OPPORTUNITY TO DEVELOP A SET OF PROCEDURES FOR THE USE OF EQUIPMENT IN LIBRARIES AND TO ANALYZE SYSTEM PERFORMANCE, THE NATURE OF THE DEMAND FOR THE SYSTEM, AND THE SYSTEM COST. FINDING GENERAL PRINCIPLES FOR THE DESIGN OF SUCH SYSTEMS FOR COOPERATING LIBRARIES, COMPARING…
Descriptors: College Libraries, Costs, Facsimile Transmission, Guides
Brandhorst, W. T. – 1969
An analysis of existing computerized data banks in science and technology reveals that nearly half of them involve the storage and retrieval of bibliographic data. Activity in this area has been independent and autonomous. This situation is now giving way to a new environment which involves cooperation, standards, and a rigorous rational analysis…
Descriptors: Automation, Citations (References), Coordination, Data Analysis
Parsons, William W. – Computers and Automation, 1968
This paper includes (1) a review of the history and current activities in the area of intergovernmental cooperation in the exchange of information and (2) a summary of the current state of the art in the information sciences. Relevant federal legislation, dating back to the 1930's, is discussed; the April 1968 report by the Intergovernmental Task…
Descriptors: Agency Cooperation, City Government, Computers, Federal Aid
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