Computer assisted school administration and management: Where are we and where should we go?

Visscher, Adrie J.

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Computer assisted school administration and management: Where are we and where should we go?

Adrie J. Visscher³

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In this paper the international state of the art of computer-assisted school administration and management (CASA) is presented. This is done by analyzing the developmental stages CASA has gone through, available school administrative computer applications, factors determining school information system implementation and the impact of system use. Finally, some reflections on the future of CASA are presented.

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Computer Uses in Education
Organizational Impacts
Management of Computing and Information Systems, General

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Faculty of Educational Science and Technology, Department of Educational Administration, University of Twente, P.O. Box 217, 7500 AE, Enschede, The Netherlands
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Ministry of Education, Culture and Sports, Jerusalem, Israel
Ben-Zion Barta & Yaffa Gev &
School of Education, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel
Moshe Telem

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Visscher, A.J. (1995). Computer assisted school administration and management: Where are we and where should we go?. In: Barta, BZ., Telem, M., Gev, Y. (eds) Information Technology in Educational Management. ITEM 1994. IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-34839-1_3

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