PIAS (Purdue Instrument Analysis System)

PIAS provides basic descriptive statistics, discriminant functionality of individual observations, and identifies which combination of scale items has the highest reliability with the lowest number of items. PIAS has been acquired by 26 universities and research organizations including Pennsylvania State University; Galveston Medical School, University of Texas; Wayne County (Michigan) Intermediate School District; University of Montreal; Instuto Technolgico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey; Department of Educational Psychology and Measurement, University of New Mexico. (Note: A PC version, PIAS2.5p [MS DOS 3.2 or higher] is under development.)

CAAS (Communication Audit Analysis System)

CAAS is a collection of 14 programs which provide basic descriptive statistics, demographic breakdowns, integration of qualitative data, rank-ordered tables and graphs of data collected via the ICA Communication Project of the International Communication Association. It creates tables and text in a report-writing mode so that non-academic consumers can easily understand a communication audit’s analyses.

PSBA (Porter-Sawko Blockage Analysis System)

PSBA analyzes information flow and structure from network data collection, provides flow and structure data on a variety of message topics in social aggregations. PSBA is characterized by its emphasis upon measurement efficiency and message topic specificity; with C.A. Sawko. (Note: PSBA is featured in “Conducting Network Analyses and Structural Communication Analyses in the Modern Organization,” in C. Downs (Ed.), Auditing Organizational Communication, Scott-Foresman, 1988.

FAAS (Florida Assessment Analysis System)

FAAS is an integrated collection of routines for analyzing training needs assessment developed for the State University System of Florida (SUS). FAAS was used (1985-1991) throughout the SUS before funding can be allocated to training needs in the universities of the SUS. It provides a department by department, category by category, and demographic by demographic breakdown of rank-ordered priorities for each assessed training topic.