EXPLORATORY STUDY OF INFORMATION-PROCESSING PROCEDURES AND COMPUTER-BASED TECHNOLOGY IN VOCATIONAL COUNSELING
Abstract
The purpose of this phase of the work was to design a man-machine counseling system. Before the design work began, the counseling and guidance operations were surveyed in the thirteen schools distributed over seven states in order to study the variation in counseling practice among schools. This variation could then be considered in system development work with the schools selected for the man-machine study. After the survey, an experimentation field site was selected. The focus of system development and experimentation is a large school complex in the Los Angeles School District. Detailed system analysis was performed of all the counseling procedures employed in this school complex and workshops on information processing technology were conducted for the counselors. Two design teams were then formed to specify Model I of the man-machine system. One team consisted of the SDC researchers and the high school counselors; the other, of the researchers and the junior high school counselors. Some of the major ideas which emerged from the design sessions are: (1) An information retrieval system for student information. (2) A tracking and monitoring system which will automatically alert the counselor when critical situations occur. (3) Automated report generation for preparing cumulative records, report cards, and other reports or lists.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Oct 26, 1967
- Accession Number
- AD0666411
Entities
People
- Barbara A. Rosenquist
- Clyde Jr P. Donahoe
- Donald P. Estavan
- John F. Cogswell
Organizations
- System Development Corporation