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Peer reviewedChapman, David W.; Boothroyd, Roger A. – Comparative Education Review, 1988
Contends that, in developing countries, attention must be paid to the quality of data going into computer-based information management systems; otherwise implementation of the system may provide only a deceptively systematic procedure for making random decisions. Examines errors, assumptions, inabilities, and omissions that threaten data quality…
Descriptors: Data Collection, Data Processing, Database Management Systems, Developing Nations
Peer reviewedChapman, David W. – International Review of Education/Internationale Zeitschrift fuer Erziehungswissenschaft/Revue Internationale de Pedagogie, 1991
Reports findings from a study of the confidence expressed by ministry-level decision makers in five developing countries (i.e., Somalia, Botswana, Liberia, Yemen, and Nepal) about the quality of the national-level education data available to them and reasons for the perceived 16-40 percent error rate. (DMM)
Descriptors: Comparative Education, Data Collection, Developing Nations, Educational Research
