The effect of school management information systems on the nature of a loosely coupled high school instruction-administration subsystem: A preliminary study

Journal of Research on Computing in Education

Volumn 28, Issue 2, 1995, Pages 258-269

  Telem, Moshe ^a   Avidov, Orit ^b  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b Beer Tuvia High School ^*  (Israel)

Author keywords

Computer utilization; Decision making; Evaluation; Management information systems

Indexed keywords

EID: 22344438055     PISSN: 08886504     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/08886504.1995.10782164     Document Type: Article

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