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Moore, Colleen – Education Insights Center, 2020
The Education Insights Center produced a series of reports culminating in recommendations for the structure and governance of a preschool through higher education and into the workforce (known as a P20W data system). This brief follows up on that series, with a focus on data quality; the brief was informed by the author's experience using…
Descriptors: Governance, Preschool Education, Elementary Secondary Education, Higher Education
Song, Yang – ProQuest LLC, 2017
Fifty years of research has found great potential for peer assessment as a pedagogical approach. With peer assessment, not only do students receive more copious assessments; they also learn to become assessors. In recent decades, more educational peer assessments have been facilitated by online systems. Those online systems are designed…
Descriptors: Data, Shared Resources and Services, Peer Evaluation, Information Storage
Mohanty, Pragyan Sheela P. – ProQuest LLC, 2015
Two problems at two different abstraction levels of computational biology are studied. At the molecular level, efficient pattern matching algorithms in DNA sequences are presented. For gene order data, an efficient data structure is presented capable of storing all gene re-orderings in a systematic manner. A common characteristic of presented…
Descriptors: Computation, Biology, Genetics, Graphs
Taheriyan, Mohsen – ProQuest LLC, 2015
Information sources such as relational databases, spreadsheets, XML, JSON, and Web APIs contain a tremendous amount of structured data, however, they rarely provide a semantic model to describe their contents. Semantic models of data sources capture the intended meaning of data sources by mapping them to the concepts and relationships defined by a…
Descriptors: Semantics, Information Sources, Data, Models
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Boja, Catalin – Journal of Applied Quantitative Methods, 2006
There are described methods used to minimize data files dimension. There are defined indicators for measuring size of files and databases. The storage optimization process is based on selecting from a multitude of data storage models the one that satisfies the propose problem objective, maximization or minimization of the optimum criterion that is…
Descriptors: Databases, Data, Information Science, Information Storage
Bigelow, Richard Henry – 1973
A bulk data input processor which is available for the Rapidly Extensible Language (REL) English versions is described. In REL English versions, statements that declare names of data items and their interrelationships normally are lines from a terminal or cards in a batch input stream. These statements provide a convenient means of declaring some…
Descriptors: Computer Science, Computer Storage Devices, Computers, Data
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King, Michael A. – Journal of Information Technology Education, 2009
Business intelligence derived from data warehousing and data mining has become one of the most strategic management tools today, providing organizations with long-term competitive advantages. Business school curriculums and popular database textbooks cover data warehousing, but the examples and problem sets typically are small and unrealistic. The…
Descriptors: Strategic Planning, Problem Sets, Corporations, Statistics
Fife, Jonathan D. – 1974
Today, with development of computerized data banks, there is an increased quantity of stored information that has relevance to problems far beyond the scope of the original study for which the data were developed. The purpose of this paper is to highlight some of the major data available and their sources. It is hoped that by describing some of…
Descriptors: Data, Databases, Higher Education, Information Centers
Gray, Peter J. – 1984
This manual on microcomputer-based database management programs provides a description of the key characteristics of database software as well as guidelines for designing a database, uses of database programs, and selecting the right software. Three sets of concepts related to database management are listed and explained: creating a database,…
Descriptors: Computer Software, Data, Data Processing, Databases
Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY. – 1975
The papers and discussions of the 1975 Pacific Region meeting of the Association for Computing Machinery are presented. Topics included (1) the current and emerging state of the art in data management software and hardware, (2) relational systems with particular attention to new developments in systems for relational data bases, (3) advances in…
Descriptors: Computer Programs, Computer Science, Computer Storage Devices, Computers
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Stafford, Susan G. – Environmental Monitoring and Assessment, 1993
Describes the Forest Science Data Bank that contains 2,400 data sets from over 350 existing ecological studies. Database features described include involvement of the scientific community; database documentation; data quality assurance; security; data access and retrieval; and data import/export flexibility. Appendices present the Quantitative…
Descriptors: Data, Databases, Ecology, Environmental Education
Gaus, Wilhelm, Ed.; Henzler, Rolf, Ed. – 1977
The 13 papers collected here were presented at the Workshop on Data Documentation held at Reisenburg Castle, Federal Republic of Germany, in July 1975. This workshop was a first attempt to identify some of the problems in the field of data documentation, formulate them, and solve them as far as possible. The subject was approached from four…
Descriptors: Chemistry, Computer Oriented Programs, Confidentiality, Data
Seipp, David J. – 1975
Concern is growing over the problems of freedom of information, individual right to privacy, and automated recordkeeping systems. As a guide to policy considerations for overview and for detail, this extensive structured bibliography of privacy and disclosure literature adopts a topical scheme, dividing the subject first into governmental and…
Descriptors: Bibliographies, Civil Rights, Computer Science, Confidential Records
United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization, Paris (France). Div. of Statistics on Education. – 1976
An international numerical coding structure is presented for classification of data on education according to level category, educational field, and program type. Explanation of the overall system and a guide for its use is followed by a listing of levels, fields, and programs of education in coded order. The various educational program…
Descriptors: Classification, Codification, Comparative Analysis, Data