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.
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 Building Capacity in Institutional Research and Decision Support in Higher Education written by Karen L. Webber and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-01-31 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the relevant roles, skills and knowledge needed to build the institutional research capacity across the higher education sector globally. The information contained herein will inform IR practitioners, senior level institution officials, and higher education scholars. With a focus on building the capacity of the IR profession, this book’s primary audiences include senior leaders who wish to introduce or strengthen their understanding for effective decision support and staff members who are currently in decision support units and those who wish to serve in this capacity. However, this book also offers detail on the decision support function to higher education scholars who seek to better address how data can inform policy and planning in higher education. Through a broad discussion about the roles and skills of the practitioners, this book will also enumerate the ways in which decision support practitioners can be valued contributors in shaping the future decisions and direction of specific institutions and higher education broadly.
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 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 Collaboration Between Student Affairs and Institutional Researchers to Improve Institutional Effectiveness written by J. Worth Pickering and published by Jossey-Bass. This book was released on 2001-02-08 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This issue explores the crucial role student affairs professionals can play in research, assessment, and evaluation; and outlines the need for increased collaboration between student affairs and institutional researchers. The authors define the unique aspects of student affairs research, including its role in responding to assessment mandates and accreditation agencies; its use of student development theory in formulating research questions; the value of qualitative methods it employs; and the potential contribution it can make to institutional decision making. Chapters discuss levels of collaboration that can be achieved between student affairs and institutional research offices, with reviews of successful research practices as well as resources for the institutional researcher who is interested in learning more about student affairs research. Through practical strategies and personal insights, the authors present a successful argument for institutional researchers to build evolving and effective partnerships with researchers in student affairs. This is the 108th issue of the quarterly journal New Directions for Institutional Research
Download or read book Reference Sources written by Association for Institutional Research and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This bibliography is intended to provide lists of useful references, annotated where possible, in areas of concern to institutional researchers and planners. The bibliography covers approximately 400 publications, most published in the 1980s and early 90s. It is organized into the following 17 major topics: accreditation; assessment; budget and finance; college student characteristics; curriculum and instruction; facilities, space utilization, and scheduling; human resources; information technology; intercollegiate athletics; interinstitutional comparisons and national data bases; planning; policy analysis; predictions of academic performance; retention and enrollment management; statistics; theory and applications of institutional research; and total quality management. (GLR)
Download or read book Survey of Organization and Operations of Offices of Institutional Research analysis planning in Canadian Universities written by University of Calgary. Office of Institutional Analysis and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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 Organizing Higher Education for Collaboration written by Kezar and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2009-02-03 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides needed guidance and advice for how colleges and universities can reorganize to foster more collaborative work. In a time of declining resources, financial challenges, changing demographics, and staff overturn, institutions are looking for ways to maximize their resources and still be effective. This book is based on a study of campuses that have been successful in recreating their environments to support collaborative work.
Download or read book System Offices for Community College Institutional Research written by Hom and published by Jossey-Bass. This book was released on 2010-11-16 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume of New Directions for Institutional Research examines a professional niche that tends to operate with a low profile while playing a major role in state policies--the system office for community college institutional research. As states, regions, and the federal government seek ways to evaluate and improve the performance of community colleges, this office has grown in importance. The chapter authors, all institutional researchers in this area, draw a timely state-of-the-art portrait by showing how this office varies across states, how it varies from other institutional research offices within states, and the implications its history and prospects have for the future. This volume will be particularly useful for those who deal with higher education policy at the state, regional, or federal level; on-campus institutional researchers; and individuals who currently work in or with these system offices. This is the 147th volume of New Directions for Institutional Research. 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 Assessing Institutional Effectiveness written by Cameron Fincher and published by University of Georgia, Institute of Higher Educations. This book was released on 1989 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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 Institutional Research and Organizational Effectiveness written by Joyce R. Rigdon and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 462 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Big Data on Campus written by Karen L. Webber and published by Johns Hopkins University Press. This book was released on 2020-11-03 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Webber, Henry Y. Zheng, Ying Zhou
Download or read book Institutional Research and Planning in Higher Education written by Karen L. Webber and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-03-12 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Globalization, demographic shifts, increase in student enrollments, rapid technological transformation, and market-driven environments are altering the way higher education operates today. Institutional Research and Planning in Higher Education explores the impact of these changes on decision support and the nature of institutional research in higher education. Bringing together a diverse set of global contributors, this volume covers contemporary thinking on the practices of academic planning and its impact on key issues such as access, institutional accountability, quality assurance, educational policy priorities, and the development of higher education data systems.
Download or read book Conducting Institutional Research in Non Campus Based Settings written by Robert K. Toutkoushian and published by Jossey-Bass. This book was released on 2008 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Expanding the understanding of the nature of institutional research, this volume documents alternative ways that it is currently being carried out beyond the confines of a traditional campus-based IR office. Chapters show how institutional research is being conducted by public university system offices, state higher education coordinating boards, institutional-affiliated research offices, and higher education consultants. Chapter topics discussed include: Developing a Statewide Student Tracking Tool The Role of Consultants in Institutional Research Collaborating on State-Level Institutional Research in New Hampshire: NH Paper Using College Board Data to Examine Trends in New Hampshire's College-Bound Students Virginia Improves Teaching and Learning (VITAL): A Comprehensive Statewide Data System for Teacher Quality Confronting Ambiguity, Anarchy, and Crisis in Insitutional Research: Using Student Unit Record Databases in Extra-Institutional Research. Because these entities often do not have ready access to campus-specific data, they must be creative in finding ways to obtain data and information that enable them to provide a value-added function in the field. The chapter authors high-light ways in which these offices acquire and use information for institutional research. This is the 139th volume of the Jossey-Bass quarterly report series New Directions for Institutional Research. 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.
