Brief summary of these surveys
Summary of survey conclusions

NEW - Summary of materials found since August 1999 (posted October 2000)

Related pages

Wikle, Oklahoma State University (1990, 1993)

• Wikle, Thomas A. 1990. Survey targets GIS educational needs. GIS World, June/July, 90-92.
• Wikle, Thomas A. 1994. Survey Defines Background Coursework for GIS Education. GIS World, June 1994, 53-55.
• Wikle, Thomas A. 1995. Internships increase marketability. GIS World, January 1995, 52-53.

• Geomatics Human Resources, Final Report published in 1994 (got it)

• Geographic Information Systems: Training Recommendations, published by EPA, Administration and Resources Management (PM-218B), April 1989
• National Spatial Analysis Training Needs Assessment, prepared by EPA Office of Informaiton Resources Management and the Environmental Monitoring Systems Laboratory-Las Vegas, never published, draft report July 1992.

• Don Samuelson reported at GISHE (report requested)

• Pramod Sharma reported at GISHE 96 (report requested)
• ANZLIC (1996) Land Information Management Training Needs Analysis: National Report. Pub, ANZLIC Secretariat, Canberra, P.O. Box 2 Belconnen, ACT 2616.

• Kemp, Karen K., and Andrew U. Frank. 1996. Toward consensus on a European GIS curriculum: The International Post-Graduate Course on GIS. International Journal of Geographical Information Systems, 10(4):477-497.

• Huxhold, William E. 1991. The GIS profession: titles, pay, qualifications. Geo Info Systems, March, pp. 12-22.

• MAPPS Sponsored Training Survey
• powerpoint slides and brief summary provided

• Survey published in '92? -- no further information, email enquiry sent

• Willis, J., and R.D. Nutter. 1990. A survey of skills needs for GIS. In The Association for Geographic Information Yearbook 1990, edited by M. J. Foster and P. Shand. New York: Taylor & Francis.

• Tyler, David A., Nancy von Meyer, and David W. Gibson. 1992. A report of the national study on surveying and mapping education. ACSM Bulletin (March/April):40-43.
• Tyler, David A., D.D. Sherves, J.K. Crossfield, A.P. Vonderohe, and S.D. Johnson. 1992. Educators respond to the ACSM national education study. ACSM Bulletin (September/October):33-36.

• Survey of students and graduates - summary report available?

• Rousselin, Thierry. 1994. GIS pour les applications militaires: perception du besoin. Paper read at EGIS/MARI '94, at Paris. — presented in French, only an abstract is available.

• Minnesota GIS/LIS Salary/Skills Survey for GIS Professionals conducted in fall 1998
• Results available on the Consortium website at http://www.mngislis.org/images/ss_pub.pdf
  0ther recent education surveys also available on this site.

• David Comas contacted

• "Skill and training needs analysis on GIS, with the guidance and support of professional organisations. The task is focused to match the skills with the training needs as an important action for the implementation of GIS potentialities... The results of the survey will be afterwards made available on our Web Site at the end of the project (December 1999)." see Leonetwork.
• aims are to identify the present needs and to find training opportunities available from people on the "client side of GIS knowledge" and on the "server side of experience on specific application fields and projects".

• education needs assessment done by the  head office in order to determine the educational sessions members would like to have provided by the organization.
• 1997 results inconclusive, new survey being done in 1998.