The Carroll County (Georgia) Competency-Based Teacher Certification Project developed a measure of teacher effectiveness, the 341-item Georgia Assessment of Teacher Effectiveness, based upon five previously published classroom observation systems. Three concerns were drawn from the development of this instrument: (1) the reduction of observational…

Ongoing research programs conducted at General Motors Institute are motivated by the practical objective of improving the company's organizational effectiveness. Computer technology is being used whenever possible; for example, a technique developed by Herman Chernoff was used to process data from a survey of employee attitudes into 18 different…

This compilation of papers presented at the sixteenth annual Clinic on Library Applications of Data Processing presents 13 papers on the library within the context of technological developments in publishing and related facets of human communication. Instead of focusing on library automation per se, the contributors have chosen to look at various…

EDUCATION HAS BEEN SLOW IN FULLY UTILIZING ELECTRONIC DATA PROCESSING EQUIPMENT (EDP). EDUCATOR CONFIDENCE IN THE EDP HAS GROWN, HOWEVER, AS A RESULT OF THE SUCCESS OF ELECTRONIC DATA PROCESSING IN SCIENCE, INDUSTRY, AND OTHER PROFESSIONS. THE DEVELOPMENT OF SOLID STATE TRANSISTORIZED COMPUTERS HAS MADE POWERFUL DESK-SIZE COMPUTERS A REALITY AND…

A STUDY OF THE POTENTIAL APPLICATIONS OF DATA PROCESSING EQUIPMENT AND SERVICES IN THIS MULTICAMPUS DISTRICT SHOWED THAT USES COULD BE DIVIDED INTO THREE CLASSES--(1) ADMINISTRATION AND SERVICES, INCLUDING DECISION MAKING, PROCESSING, COMMUNICATING, AND SUMMARIZING, (2) DIRECT AND INDIRECT SERVICES TO FACULTY MEMBERS, AND (3) INSTRUCTION. TO…

THE DESIGN SPECIFICATIONS NECESSARY TO DEVELOP A FEDERAL-LEVEL, VOCATIONAL EDUCATION INFORMATION SYSTEM (VEIS), WERE PRESENTED IN THIS MANUAL. BASIC DESIGN ELEMENTS WERE DETERMINED BY STUDYING THE FEDERAL VOCATIONAL EDUCATION REPORTING REQUIREMENTS FOR EACH STATE AND BY EVALUATING A NUMBER OF IMMEDIATE REPORTING REQUIREMENTS WITHIN THE FEDERAL…

THE DESIGN SPECIFICATIONS NECESSARY TO DEVELOP A NATIONWIDE STATE-LEVEL, VOCATIONAL EDUCATION INFORMATION SYSTEM (VEIS) WERE PRESENTED IN THIS MANUAL. THESE SPECIFICATIONS WERE PREPARED TO CONFORM TO A UNIVERSAL STYLE FOR ALL STATES AND U.S. TERRITORIES TO USE IN FULFILLING THEIR FEDERAL VOCATIONAL EDUCATION REPORTING REQUIREMENTS. THE OUTPUT…

THE USE OF PRACTICE TESTS AS A LEARNING AID WAS EVALUATED. ATTEMPTS WERE MADE TO DEMONSTRATE HOW DATA PROCESSING EQUIPMENT COULD BE USED EFFECTIVELY TO REPRODUCE TESTS AND ANALYZE TEST RESULTS FOR IMPROVEMENT OF INSTRUCTION. INITIALLY, A CLASS OF STUDENTS IN TESTS AND MEASUREMENTS AT NORTH DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY (THE REFERENCE GROUP) WAS…

An instructor's manual and student activity guide on computer flowcharting are provided in this set of prevocational education material which focuses on the vocational area of office occupations. (This set of materials is one of ninety-two prevocational education sets arranged around a cluster of seven vocational offerings: agriculture, home…

While university researchers have long made use of the complex research-oriented applications of the computer and have discussed its utilization in the instructional process, in the early stages of computer use in higher education, two-year colleges made little or no use of its advanced research capabilities, and limited its use to business and…

A comprehensive review of the current status, prospects, and problems of computer networking in higher education is presented from the perspectives of both computer users and network suppliers. Several areas of computer use are considered including applications for instruction, research, and administration in colleges and universities. In the…

This document describes the Chief of Naval Education and Training (CNET) Automated Budget System (CABS), which was developed by the Training Analysis and Evaluation Group (TAEG) to provide an efficient, easy means of handling the large volume of data necessary to produce budget documents. A guide provided for Naval Education and Training Command…

Instructions for using the computerized Canadian University Student Information System created by Statistics Canada are presented in this manual. The data base includes information on all students registered in Canadian universities, affiliates, and degree-granting colleges. A complete list of all available data elements and column headings that…

IN A PILOT STUDY CONDUCTED TO PROVIDE BETTER INFORMATION FOR CAMPUS PLANNING, COMPUTER PROGRAMS WERE DEVELOPED TO ANALYZE DATA COLLECTED FROM STUDENT DIARIES. AREAS OF CONCERN INCLUDED--(1) TIME SPENT IN A SPECIFIC ACTIVITY, (2) TRAFFIC ACTIVITIES AND RELATED VARIABLES (COSTS, ETC.), AND (5) PROJECTION OF FUTURE CAMPUS ACTIVITY-SPACE RELATIONSHIPS…

Evaluation, defined as the process of providing and using information for making educational decisions, is a major factor in the achievement of planned change resulting in improved education. This kind of change is differentiated as neomobilistic or moving toward a planned new state, in contrast to evolutionary change and homeostatic change. Four…