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Bedi, Param – Association of Small Computer Users in Education (ASCUE), 2005
This paper discusses how to implement networking solutions in residence halls at Arcadia University in Philadelphia. Sections of the paper include: (1) About Arcadia University; (2) Residence Halls Network; (3) How Campus Manager Helped Arcadia University; (4) What Is Campus Manager; (5) How Campus Manager Works; (6) Campus Manager Remediation…
Descriptors: Computer Networks, Private Colleges, Computer Uses in Education, Information Networks
Weinberger, JoAnn – 1995
A project was conducted to develop the methods, procedures, standards, and processes to enable adult basic and literacy education programs funded by the Pennsylvania Department of Education (PDE) Bureau of Adult Basic and Literacy Education (ABLE) to submit their student and staff data via computer disk. During the project, the Center for…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Computer Peripherals, Computer Uses in Education, Data Collection
Goldberg, Robert – 1975
The Pennsylvania State Department of Education developed an automated system in 1970 to facilitate meeting report requirements to the United States Office of Education. This system provides for computer processing of such information as labor market needs in planning vocational programs, standards for these programs, graduate followup, demographic…
Descriptors: Computer Science, Documentation, Labor Force Development, Labor Needs
Goldbach, Robert L. – 1988
A tracking system which monitors Allegheny County (Pennsylvania) mentally retarded students leaving the school system to make their transition to adult life, was developed to: (1) enhance the prospects for successful follow-up; (2) enable program planners to conduct systematic inquiries regarding the abilities, living arrangements, and work…
Descriptors: Data Analysis, Database Management Systems, Education Work Relationship, Employment
Illinois State Board of Education, Springfield. Div. of Specialized Education Services. – 1983
A 5-year project to improve the dissemination of educational resources in Pennsylvania involved establishing a Pennsylvania Department of Education (PDE) Dissemination Council to coordinate dissemination within the department, developing a comprehensive file of education resources, and strengthening educators' ability to acquire and use resources.…
Descriptors: Educational Resources, Elementary Secondary Education, Information Centers, Information Dissemination
Wilson, Robin – Chronicle of Higher Education, 1986
Pennsylvania's sophisticated system for student loan fraud and abuse detection is described, including the factors felt to contribute to its success and suggestions for improving other state agency fraud units. (MSE)
Descriptors: Agency Cooperation, Cheating, Compliance (Legal), Fraud
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Whitehouse, Kendall – EDUCAUSE Quarterly, 2006
Most large enterprises now have some type of portal to organize their internal information services. Few, however, have the long history of the SPIKE project at the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School. Originally developed during the 1994-1995 school year, SPIKE was an intranet information portal before the term "information…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Information Systems, Internet, Information Services
Cooley, William W.; And Others – 1992
A state educational indicator system being developed by the Pennsylvania Educational Policy Studies (PEPS) project at the University of Pittsburgh (Pennsylvania) is described. The extensive database that has been established as part of the PEPS project includes thousands of variables that are descriptive of the 500 Pennsylvania school districts.…
Descriptors: Classification, Data Analysis, Databases, Educational Change
BERGER, EMANUEL; CRESWELL, DORIS E. – 1967
OBJECTIVES OF THE PENNSYLVANIA RETRIEVAL OF INFORMATION FOR MATHEMATICS EDUCATION SYSTEM (PRIMES) PROJECT WERE TO DEVELOP AN INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL SYSTEM FOR ELEMENTARY SCHOOL MATHEMATICS CURRICULUM MATERIALS AND TO ESTABLISH PROCEDURES FOR LOCAL PENNSYLVANIA SCHOOL DISTRICTS TO USE THE SYSTEM FOR CURRICULUM DEVELOPMENT AND SELECTING…
Descriptors: Computers, Curriculum Development, Elementary School Mathematics, Feasibility Studies
Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services (ED), Washington, DC. – 1980
This document is one of a series of reports which describe the experiences of six state agencies that are developing systems to affect the development and implementation of policy in the federal/state program for vocational rehabilitation. The state programs are developing model program evaluation/management information support units. This second…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Citations (References), Cost Effectiveness, Evaluation Methods
Toombs, William; Wilkinson, Robert – 1983
A project that identified more than 1,200 academic and corporate research units within Pennsylvania is described, and a user's guide to the project's data file is provided. The Pennsylvania Research Inventory Project is an online data system designed to promote economic development, particularly within the Appalachian region of the state. The…
Descriptors: Business, Databases, Economic Development, Equipment
Probert, Donald K.; And Others – 1981
A project was conducted in Pennsylvania to design a statewide system for establishing regional pools of qualified teachers for potential staffing of local vocational training programs in secondary schools. The objectives of the project were to facilitate recruitment and retention of qualified vocational education instructional staffs by providing…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Information Systems, Personnel Data, Personnel Needs
Kent, Allen – 1976
Information Interdependence is an empty concept unless the real user is a dominant element. The individual user of information must be sensitized to the existence of information interdependencies and to the critical need to foster much more of it, if libraries are to survive economically and provide exemplary information service. Three approaches…
Descriptors: Cataloging, Information Needs, Information Systems, Interlibrary Loans
Velasco Mondragon, Hector Eduardo; And Others – 1996
As the economic integration of Mexico and the United States intensifies, so does the cross-migration of labor forces. Subsequently, when migrant workers or their families become ill, health care is often disjointed and suboptimal. Binational health data exchange among providers of health care becomes essential. GUAPA (incorporating the first three…
Descriptors: Access to Health Care, Data Processing, Demonstration Programs, Disease Control
Berrian, Albert H., Ed.; Bonas, John E., Ed. – 1981
Presentations at a seminar on systemwide tracking that grew out of efforts to promote implementation of South Carolina's desegregation plan are included. Two subjects were the focus: retention and the use of monitored developmental programs as a means of retention and of safeguarding quality. Essays include "Systemwide Student Tracking"…
Descriptors: Affirmative Action, College Desegregation, College Freshmen, Desegregation Methods
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