Technology in Educational Planning

The educational planning process has more often then not failed to utilize data to inform decision-making. This is essentially because of the lack of an education management information system capable of delivering valid and reliable data in a timely fashion for the use of educational planners and administrators. This does not mean that data are unavailable: rather. That they cannot be easily retrieved and analyzed. With the advent of micro-computers it is not possible to improve the efficiency of information retrieval  Analysis, and communication throughout the education complex.


Problems of validity and reliability of data will disappear. These are features inherent in most data collection activates. Furthermore, the use of micro-computers can also help to reduce dramatically planning lead time and to facilitate the de concentration and decentralization of the planning and management processes. Computerization cannot of course legitimate the planning process, in so much as planning cannot legitimate decision-making. A functional assumption is that most planning is a process of rationalizing decision-making of a political nature. The use of computer technology is viewed as an instrument for promoting dialogue as well as an attempt to marginally increase the amount of rationality that informs the political decision-making process.