A Flow Chart Sequence for Computer Scheduling of High School Classes - From Registration to Grade Reporting
James B. Kenney · The Journal of Experimental Education · 1965
ONE OF THE most persistent and unresolved problems today in administration of the secondary school is how to construct a master schedule of classes that will maximize the number of students successfully scheduled and minimize the number of conflicts which result from the process. With increasing enrollment in the secondary school it has become apparent that traditional meth ods of sectioning students are no longer satisfacto ry in too many instances (1). If the schedule is originated by manual method, it is often necessary that the administrative staff of a school devote much of the summer months to completing the task. For these reasons, many school administrators have begun to consider use of data process equipment as a partial answer to the problem. Contrary to belief, the cost of using data proc ess equipment for scheduling students in m edium and large secondary schools is not prohibitive when compared to the costs in time and salary of those individuals employed by the school to complete the processing by traditional methods (2). The series of flow charts which follow were de signed to graphically represent the operations nec essary to produce a schedule of classes for students of a secondary school by use of data process equip ment.