A lack of accurate and useful information has contributed to the difficulty of developing new or enhanced computerized applications for admissions offices in private colleges and universities. Research questions were designed in six areas: (1) admissions office functions; (2) admissions planning and management; (3) system technical components; (4) system development process; (5) institutional demographic characteristics; (6) system hardware and software. / Responses to a survey of 169 private institutions were supplemented by demographic data from the annual survey of the National Center for Education Statistics, and analysed with the help of the Statistical Package for the Social Sciences, Version M. / Numeric hierarchies of typical application components were demonstrated in the first four areas of study; hierarchic scales were also established in areas one and three, indicating clustering of typical data processing components. When selected demographic data were used as independent variables, some groups of institutions tended to show a higher percentage of positive responses than the total population: (1) those with high freshmen SAT scores (over 999 combined); (2) those with higher enrollments (over 1499); (3) those which are universities; (4) those located outside the frostbelt. / It was not established that, as expected, the smaller, less selective institutions in the frostbelt were likely to manifest greater strength or sophistication in their automated admissions applications. / When sets of two independent variables were used to select subgroups of the survey population, however, and the hierarchic scales were tested for these subgroups, the results were less surprising. Results supported a hypothesis that the scales represent clusterings of components that are more likely to be found among private 2- and 4-year colleges in the frostbelt than among the overall survey population. / Findings of the study will be useful to practitioners of automated admissions applications in private colleges and universities, whether they be professionals in admissions offices or in computer centers. However, increased efforts planning, analysis, and design are greatly needed, lest such applications not develop in a more truly systematic manner. / Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 47-01, Section: A, page: 0032. / Thesis (Ph.D.)--The Florida State University, 1985.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:fsu.edu/oai:fsu.digital.flvc.org:fsu_75719 |
| Contributors | DUCLOS, WARREN EUGENE, JR., Florida State University |
| Source Sets | Florida State University |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Text |
| Format | 182 p. |
| Rights | On campus use only. |
| Relation | Dissertation Abstracts International |
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