Download or read book A Primer on Institutional Research written by M. A. Whiteley and published by Assn for Institutional Research. This book was released on 1992-09-01 with total page 139 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Primer for Institutional Research written by William E. Knight and published by Ingram. This book was released on 2003 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Handbook of Institutional Research written by Richard D. Howard and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2012-06-28 with total page 691 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Institutional research is more relevant today than ever before as growing pressures for improved student learning and increased institutional accountability motivate higher education to effectively use ever-expanding data and information resources. As the most current and comprehensive volume on the topic, the Handbook describes the fundamental knowledge, techniques, and strategies that define institutional research. The book contains an overview of the profession and its history, examines how institutional research supports executive and academic leadership and governance, and discusses the varied ways data from federal, state, and campus sources are used by research professionals. With contributions from leading experts in the field, this important resource reviews the analytic tools, techniques, and methodologies used by institutional researchers in their professional practice and covers a wide range of topics such as: conducting institutional research; statistical applications; comparative analyses; quality control systems; measuring student, faculty, and staff opinions; and management activities designed to improve organizational effectiveness.

Download or read book Institutional Research Initiatives in Higher Education written by Nicolas A. Valcik and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-11-06 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: American higher education faces a challenging environment. Decreasing state appropriations, rising costs, and tightening budgets have left American colleges and universities scrambling to achieve their missions with ever more limited resources. Campus leaders have therefore increasingly relied upon institutional research and strategic planning departments to make transparent and rational decisions and to promote good stewardship of critical but finite resources. Institutional Research Initiatives in Higher Education illustrates the wealth of institutional research activities occurring in American higher education. Featuring chapters by a prominent mix of authors representing community colleges, traditional undergraduate institutions, land grant institutions, research and flagship universities, and state agencies, this book provides numerous insights into the contemporary challenges, innovative programs, and best practices in institutional research. With contributors from a variety of regions and types of institutions, each chapter provides rigorous analysis of campus-based research activities in areas such as strategic planning, admissions and enrollment management, assessment and compliance, and financial planning and budgeting. Like the departments it studies, Institutional Research Initiatives in Higher Education is an invaluable resource for university administrators, researchers, and policymakers alike.

Download or read book A Primer of Institutional Research in Australasia written by Raj Sharma and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Starting and Sustaining Meaningful Institutional Research at Small Colleges and Universities written by Narren J. Brown and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2017-07-25 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The focus of this volume is on the work of Institutional Researchers in a small college or university (SCUs) setting. At an SCU, the goal of the IR office is to balance the bureaucratic tendencies of data-driven decision making with the need for collegiality and collaboration. Drawing on numerous examples, it illustrates how IR professionals can leverage their positionality within the institution to design data flows to answer questions by serving as convergent thinkers, connecting disjointed systems and requests. This volume: identifies the challenges that small IR offices face reinforces the idea of collegiality as a defining feature of small IR offices discusses several principles for using data about teaching and learning explores the effects of low response rates in survey data and the effects of nonresponse bias demonstrates the importance of collaborative efforts in enacting change proposes a model of policy development focused on student success presents an effective model of SCU IR office development This is the 173rd volume of this Jossey-Bass quarterly report series. Timely and comprehensive, New Directions for Institutional Research provides planners and administrators in all types of academic institutions with guidelines in such areas as resource coordination, information analysis, program evaluation, and institutional management.

Download or read book Institutional Research and Communication in Higher Education written by Association for Institutional Research and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book New Directions for Institutional Research written by and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 548 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Functions of Institutional Research written by Joe Lee Saupe and published by . This book was released on 1990-01-01 with total page 17 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Benchmarking in Institutional Research written by Gary D. Levy and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2012-12-21 with total page 105 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While the term benchmarking is commonplace nowadays in institutional research and higher education, less common, is a solid understanding of what it really means and how it has been, and can be, used effectively. This volume begins by defining benchmarking as “a strategic and structured approach whereby an organization compares aspects of its processes and/or outcomes to those of another organization or set of organizations to identify opportunities for improvement.” Building on this definition, the chapters provide a brief history of the evolution and emergence of benchmarking in general and in higher education in particular. The authors apply benchmarking to: Enrollment management and student success Institutional effectiveness The potential economic impact of higher education institutions on their host communities. They look at the use of national external survey data in institutional benchmarking and selection of peer institutions, introduce multivariate statistical methodologies for guiding that selection, and consider a novel application of baseball sabermetric methods. The volume offers a solid starting point for those new to benchmarking in higher education and provides examples of current best practices and prospective new directions. This is the 156th volume of this Jossey-Bass series. Always timely and comprehensive, New Directions for Institutional Research provides planners and administrators in all types of academic institutions with guidelines in such areas as resource coordination, information analysis, program evaluation, and institutional management.

Download or read book Institutional Research in the University written by Paul Leroy Dressel and published by San Francisco : Jossey-Bass. This book was released on 1971 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Information Available in the Office of Institutional Research written by Portland State University. Office of Institutional Research and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Mapping Social Relations written by Marie Louise Campbell and published by Rowman Altamira. This book was released on 2004 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a book about a distinctive methodological approach inspired by one of Canada's most respected scholars, Dorothy Smith. Institutional ethnography aims to answer questions about how everyday life is organized. What is conventionally understood as "the relationship of micro to macro processes" is, in institutional ethnography, conceptualized and explored in terms of ruling relations.The authors suggest that institutional ethnographers must adopt a particular research stance, one that recognizes that people's own knowledge and ways of knowing are crucial elements of social action and thus of social analysis. Specific attention to text analysis is integral to the approach as is a sensitive to gender relations. Institutional ethnography is remarkably well suited to the human service curriculum and the training of professionals and activists. Its strategy for learning how to understand problems existing in everyday life appeals to many researchers who are looking for guidance on how to take practical action. At the same time, the highly elaborated theoretical foundation of institutional ethnography is difficult to deal with in the brief time most students are in the classroom. The authors successfully tackle the issue of teaching and applying institutional ethnography. Campbell and Gregor have been testing out instructional methods and materials for many years. MAPPING SOCIAL RELATIONS is the product of that effort.

Download or read book What Is Institutional Research All About A Critical and Comprehensive Assessment of the Profession written by J. Fredericks Volkwein and published by Jossey-Bass. This book was released on 2000-02-18 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In honor of the twenty-fifth anniversary of New Directions for Institutional Research, this issue provides an overview of the field of institutional research and a status report on the profession. The authors present the results of various national studies that examine the professional preparation of institutional researchers and the size and primary task of the IR office. Chapters explore the role IR plays in improving an institution's ability to learn; review organizational behavior theories that shed light on the researcher's relationship with the institution; and discuss the three tiers of organizational intelligence that make up IR--technical/analytical, contextual, and issues intelligence. This is the 104th issue of the quarterly journal New Directions for Institutional Research.

Download or read book Research on Academic Input written by Association for Institutional Research and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Cases on Institutional Research Systems written by Burley, Hansel and published by IGI Global. This book was released on 2011-10-31 with total page 429 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Institutional research (IR) is a growing, applied, and interdisciplinary area that attracts people from a variety of fields, including computer programmers, statisticians, and administrators and faculty from every discipline to work in archiving, analyzing, and reporting on all aspects of higher education information systems. Cases on Institutional Research Systems is a reference book for institutional research, appealing to novice and expert IR professionals and the administrators and policymakers that rely on their data. By presenting a variety of institutional perspectives, the book depicts the challenges and solutions to those in higher education administration, and state, federal, and even international accreditation.

Download or read book Organizing Effective Institutional Research Offices written by Jennifer B. Presley and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume of New Directions for Institutional Research is designed to assist both those who are establishing an institutional research function for the first time and those who are invigorating an existing unit. The authors write from their own experiences as institutional researchers involved with development activites. They provide maror guidelines for how to approach tasks and avoid major pitfalls. Seasned institutional researchers will find that many of the chapters provide a useful upddate on such issues as computing tools, data administration, the establishment of an assessment capacity, and interpersonal communications. This is the 66th issue of New Directions for Institutional Research. For more information on the series, please see the Journals and Periodicals page.