Automatic data processing in education
James William Whitlock · Medical Entomology and Zoology · 1964
UTOMATIC DATA processing equipment can serve as a -* valuable tool in educational administration. There are several major contributions. In the first place, the equipment can be used to do many of the various routine operations of educational management and control and thus free the school administrator, his central staff, and the teaching staff to participate in professional activities. Second, it can serve as the calculating tool essential to handling mass data. Third, the equipment can be used to improve research instruments. Fourth, it will improve the adequacy of the data being used in research. Fifth, electronic equipment can be used to simulate an educational system.