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Molinero, Cecilio Mar – Higher Education Review, 1990
Much marketing information can be obtained for admissions policy formation and forecasting from existing data sources, including course perceptions, the nature of the competition, and the admissions policies of the competition. The British university application system would benefit by exploiting computer applications of this concept. (MSE)
Descriptors: College Admission, College Applicants, Competition, Computer Oriented Programs

Smith, Peter; Thompson, Barrie – Education and Computing, 1988
Describes an instructional methodology developed and implemented at Sunderland Polytechnic that uses formal computer program design methods to teach computer programing in computer science and data processing courses. Jackson Structured Programming is explained, and the results of an evaluation by both teaching staff and students are presented.…
Descriptors: Computer Science Education, Computer Software, Course Evaluation, Data Processing

Bright, George W. – Arithmetic Teacher, 1989
Illustrates how teachers or students can use spreadsheets. Shows the layouts, formulas, and data of two cases: budget manager and data manager. Seven references are listed. (YP)
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Uses in Education, Data Processing, Elementary Education
Owens, Thomas R. – School Business Affairs, 1989
A study of a random sample of 40 of Wisconsin's 432 public school districts was conducted to see how 7 factors influenced a district's use of the standardized statewide accounting system, known as the Wisconsin Elementary and Secondary School Accounting System (WESSAS). (MLF)
Descriptors: Computer Uses in Education, Data Processing, Elementary Secondary Education, Financial Audits

Marek, Edmund A; Cavallo, Ann M. L. – Journal of Elementary Science Education, 1995
Examines teachers' differing uses of student-gathered data during science investigations. The results show that student language use and concept understanding differed between two different instructional approaches. Suggestions are provided for using student-gathered data in teaching elementary school science. (LZ)
Descriptors: Concept Formation, Data Processing, Elementary Education, Elementary School Science

Burton, Orville Vernon – History Microcomputer Review, 1991
Explores the increased use of computers in the humanities. Discusses computer applications in dissertation writing, research databases, classroom teaching, professional communication, and statistical analysis. Cites problems with data entry and sampling, record linkage, and resistance among some historians to new technologies. (SG)
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Uses in Education, Data Processing, Databases

Fetterman, David M. – New Directions for Institutional Research, 1991
Internal institutional auditing can improve effectiveness and efficiency and protect an institution's assets. Many of the concepts and techniques used to analyze higher education institutions are qualitative in nature and suited to institutional research, including fiscal, operational, data-processing, investigative, management consulting,…
Descriptors: Audits (Verification), College Administration, College Libraries, Consultants
Gore, Al – Scientific American, 1991
Technologies that enhance the ability to create and understand information have led to changes in the traditional legal concepts of property, ownership, originality, privacy, and intellectual freedom. The importance of government addressing such issues and investing in development of a high-capacity computer network is discussed. (KR)
Descriptors: Computer Networks, Computer Oriented Programs, Computer Peripherals, Computer Science
Trotter, Andrew – American School Board Journal, 1993
Some school districts are privatizing data-processing operations. In addition to commercial firms, local county or city governments can be contracted to run districts' computer operations. Advantages cited include more computing power for the money, personnel savings, and helping school districts concentrate on educating children. (MLF)
Descriptors: Computer Uses in Education, Data Processing, Elementary Secondary Education, Local Area Networks
Johnston, George H.; Kristovich, Sharon A. R. – New Directions for Community Colleges, 2000
Examines how one community college has developed a national Bellwether Award-winning data-driven decision-making process that uses its institutional research staff to make the transition from data to information. Characterizes some of the data and resulting information that might be useful to department chairs. Identifies issues and concerns that…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Community Colleges, Data Processing, Decision Making
Douthitt, Frieda; And Others – 1993
This packet contains the stories of 20 successful alumni of Ohio's secondary vocational programs and postsecondary technical schools. They have been reproduced as loose-leaf camera-ready art. Suggested uses for these one-page biographies with accompanying photograph include the following: illustrations for use in speeches; reproduction of complete…
Descriptors: Agribusiness, Agricultural Education, Auto Mechanics, Biographies
Mayfield, Karen; Whitlow, Robert – 1994
EQUALS is a teacher education program that helps elementary and secondary educators acquire methods and materials to attract minority and female students to mathematics. It supports a problem-solving approach to mathematics which has students working in groups, uses active assessment methods, and incorporates a broad mathematics curriculum…
Descriptors: Algebra, Data Processing, Females, Gender Issues
Texas State Occupational Information Coordinating Committee, Austin. – 1994
The Texas Automated Student and Adult Learner Follow-Up System was developed as part of a larger effort to improve and coordinate the delivery of education and training of a skilled work force. The primary task of the Follow-Up System in Program Year 1993-94 was to obtain outcome information on the former students and participants of the work…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Comparative Analysis, Data Processing, Databases
Pratt, Daniel J.; And Others – 1994
This document is a summary and evaluation of methodological procedures and results for the field test of the Beginning Postsecondary Student Longitudinal Study Second Followup, 1990-94 (BPS:90/94). The BPS study is a departure from previous studies in that it starts with a cohort of individuals as they enter their postsecondary studies regardless…
Descriptors: Cohort Analysis, Data Collection, Data Processing, Field Tests
Ingels, Steven J.; And Others – 1994
This manual familiarizes data users with the procedures followed for data collection and processing of the second follow-up student component of the National Education Longitudinal Study of 1988 (NELS:88), with the corollary objective of providing necessary documentation for use of the data file. Chapter 1 presents an overview and history of the…
Descriptors: Data Collection, Data Processing, Educational History, Followup Studies