RE: WAC

[Joan Mullin <jmullin@UOFT02.UTOLEDO.EDU>]

Sally,

While our data base isn't relational, it does contain all that Valerie lists
below--and has proven invaluable!
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joan
At 01:30 PM 8/5/96 -0500, you wrote:
>Sally, we have a pretty good computer person working for us, and he
>designed a relational data basis for our records.  We haven't tested it
>yet, but it looks very promising.  It is a FileMaker program.  Information
>we are looking at includes the client name and SS# (which could, if needed,
>be linked to sociological data kept by the university, for example
>ethnicity); length of session (we can easily get an average length);
>teacher name, course name, when applicable; student major; general areas
>worked on (e,g, organization, punctuation, etc) and type of document (e.g.,
>resume, paper for a class, etc). We can get infomration like how many hours
>a given tutor actually saw clients or how many of our student contact hours
>available were actually used, as well.
>
>I don't know if this is true, but I believe this data base takes some
>expertise to set up.  it is "relational" because we can enter data into
>separate data bases (for example, a tutor schedule, an instructor's list, a
>student records) and the data bases can share that information.
>
>Valerie Balester
>Director of Writing Programs
>Texas A&M University
>College Station, TX 77843-4227
>(409) 845-3155
>(409) 862-2292 FAX
>v-balester@tamu.edu
>
>
>

joan
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