As of 1993, Nevada had no systems for statewide automation and transfer of student records. This guide book presents findings of a collaborative study, conducted by the Nevada Department of Education and local school districts, that explored the need for and feasibility of developing a statewide system for automating and transferring student…

Outcomes of a project that implemented a management information system to effectively gather and record student data are presented in this practicum report. The project, implemented in the adult education department of a community college and its various offcampus locations, consisted of three components: a BASIC program to calculate students'…

Describes the use of Appleworks to maintain classroom records of student scores. Discusses labeling, computing, sums, averages, maximum/minimum scores, and numeric grade, as well as initializing the gradebook and how to enter scores. (JM)

This report describes the development in 1986 of a management information system by the Sacramento City (California) Unified School District for use in high schools. A nine-page attachment, which comprises two-thirds of the report, offers profiles of selected schools drawn from the databases. Data sets of 200 information items, collected from all…

This is a report of an interdisciplinary team which: (1) examined the literature from medicine and health, law, computing, and social science; (2) conducted interviews with manufacturers, developers, health professionals, consumers, and public interest groups; (3) made site visits to health organizations using computers; (4) corresponded with…

Version 3 of the Southwest Regional Laboratory's (SWRL) Instructional Management System (IMS) is a fully automated system which accepts pupil criterion exercises from remote sites and returns various reports to the same location. This paper briefly describes the SWRL/IMS system design and functional characteristics. The instructional system…

Educational institutions typically have data filed in many forms in many locations, making the task of gathering relevant data for any purpose a difficult process. The Davidson Community College approached the problem by studying management information systems in other North Carolina institutions, searching ERIC, and pursuing leads in journals of…

This manual describes procedures for collecting, recording, and reporting in a uniform, timely manner critical information necessary to the making of key management decisions for parent child centers as well as for the parent child center program. The first section describes recommended data collection and recordkeeping procedures for such…

The objectives of this volume are to present the National Data Coordinator with an overview of the document input-output relationships, explain data validation and processing procedures required to produce the Quarterly Management Reports from input documents submitted by the Parent Child Centers (PCC's), and to specify system resource…

A computer application was designed to facilitate the management of inquiries about admission to a doctoral program for school administrators. The application makes possible the storage, accession, and manipulation of applicant data and information for marketing and recruitment purposes. The application was needed because inquiries were being…

The Parent Child Center Management Information System, the first operational MIS for a social action program relating to child welfare, consists of three interlocking components: a standard set of recordkeeping forms for the local Parent Child Center; a set of quarterly reporting forms that interface with the recordkeeping forms; and a series of…

This investigation of the use of database management systems (DBMS) in a research environment used the Rand Corporation as a case study. After a general introduction in section 1, eight sections present the major components of the study. Section 2 contains an overview of DBMS terminology and concepts, followed in section 3 by a general dsecription…

Institutional researchers play a key role in an environment where data warehouses are used to store and retrieve vast amounts of data. Along with the benefits of increased access for more users, improved reporting capabilities, and less reliance on centralized information, come questions of appropriate data usage, data access and security,…

The use of management information systems (MIS) in the department fiscal system is described in this paper, with a focus on development of a planning model prior to MIS implementation. Planning stages involve a task force to evaluate the situation prior to implementation. Applicability of simple and advanced management information systems are…

Reported here is the completed phase 2 of a program designed to develop a comprehensive integrated system that will produce information for planning and administrating Illinois vocational education programs. Phase 2 project activities were intended to further develop and refine the Illinois Vocational Management Information System (MIS) and to…