From what I am hearing, and what I know about your issue (my wife is head of the Ed Dept at GCC) I would suggest two paths: 1) Explore more about what outcome tracking is being used at other educational institutions and regions this is a pretty common problem that many people are trying to understand 2) The heck with all the fancy live input methods - web or desktop and go with paper. By that I mean the basic data entry forms that have be properly setup for scanning, since it appears that the bulk of your data is multi-choice or numeric, a well designed paper input form using the right OCR package can get you a reliable input tool. I would expect you'd need some data review and editing, but then that is what grad students and interns are for. Good Luck Rich On 3/11/2010 9:54 AM, Keri Heitner wrote: > > > Thank you for all of the suggestions. Here is additional information > about what will be tracked and who will be entering the data: > > The purpose is to track student information to see if the program is > helping with GPA, test scores, etc. Instructors collect data on: GPA > pre- and post-course, math test scores, which students dropped out > during the school year, which students went on to a 4-year college, > attendance, graduation rates, infraction rates. > > Staff running the course at another college use Efforts to Outcomes > software. The problem is that many teachers stopped uploading the > above information because the process was very tedious. So the > database must support multiple users and be easy to use. > > Keri > > · Keri L. Heitner, Ph.D. > All Aspects Research > 413 549-0154 ph/fax (ET) > kheitner at earthlink.net <mailto:kheitner at earthlink.net> > > > _______________________________________________ > Hidden-discuss mailing list - home page: http://www.hidden-tech.net > Hidden-discuss at lists.hidden-tech.net > > You are receiving this because you are on the Hidden-Tech Discussion list. > If you would like to change your list preferences, Go to the Members > page on the Hidden Tech Web site. > http://www.hidden-tech.net/members -- Rich Roth CEO On-the-net Bringing you complex online systems since the net was young http://www.tnrglobal.com - Blog: http://www.rizbang.com Helping move the world: http://www.earththrives.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.hidden-tech.net/pipermail/hidden-discuss/attachments/20100311/198c877f/attachment.html