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Merging Data to Facilitate Analyses
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Kelchen, Robert – New Directions for Institutional Research, 2019
In order to demonstrate the value of higher education and evaluate the effectiveness of various policies and practices, researchers are increasingly expected to merge data from the Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) with a range of other federal and private-sector data sources. In this article, I detail a number of the most…
Descriptors: Postsecondary Education, Databases, Data Analysis, Educational Policy
The History and Evolution of IPEDS
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Miller, Elise S.; Shedd, Jessica M. – New Directions for Institutional Research, 2019
The federal government has collected data from colleges and universities for more than a century. However, how and what data are collected has evolved over time, as has the purposes for collecting those data. The most systematic collection of data happens through the Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS), which is required to be…
Descriptors: Postsecondary Education, Databases, Data Collection, Educational History