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Maxwell, Nan L.; Person, Ann E. – New Directions for Community Colleges, 2016
This chapter discusses challenges to using data in a continuous improvement framework and describes the approaches some community colleges have used to overcome those challenges.
Descriptors: Data, Information Utilization, Educational Improvement, Community Colleges
Fulcher, Keston H.; Smith, Kristen L.; Sanchez, Elizabeth R. H.; Sanders, Courtney B. – Association for Institutional Research, 2017
Higher education insiders trumpet the use of results for improvement as the most important part of the assessment cycle. Yet, at the same time, we acknowledge the rarity of improvement, especially at a program level. What are some reasons the most important phase of assessment occurs so infrequently? To seek answers, we investigated the "Use…
Descriptors: Information Utilization, Higher Education, Program Evaluation, Program Improvement
Rowan-Kenyon, Heather T., Ed.; Cahalan, Margaret, Ed.; Yamashita, Mika, Ed. – Pell Institute for the Study of Opportunity in Higher Education, 2018
There are large gaps in educational access and attainment between the rich and poor in the United States. In 2016, there was a 25 percentage-point gap in college enrollment rates for high school graduates in the top and bottom family income quartiles. Reflections on Connecting Research and Practice in College Access and Success Programs is the…
Descriptors: Access to Education, College Students, Low Income Students, Disabilities