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Direct linkPerkins, Aminah; Engelhard, George, Jr. – Measurement: Interdisciplinary Research and Perspectives, 2011
Coburn and Turner (this issue) present an intriguing framework for understanding how data has come to be used in the current high accountability environments in education. In this framework, they connect various processes of data use within organizational and political contexts. Data use is presented using an ecological perspective that deepens…
Descriptors: Research Methodology, Educational Quality, Evaluation Utilization, Research Utilization
Download full textBurns, Shelley, Ed.; Wang, Xiaolei, Ed.; Henning, Alexandra, Ed. – National Center for Education Statistics, 2011
Since its inception, the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) has been committed to the practice of documenting its statistical methods for its customers and of seeking to avoid misinterpretation of its published data. The reason for this policy is to assure customers that proper statistical standards and techniques have been observed,…
Descriptors: National Surveys, Data Processing, Statistical Data, Data Collection
DeJong, William; Langford, Linda M. – Higher Education Center for Alcohol and Other Drug Abuse and Violence Prevention, 2006
Recent years have seen an upsurge in prevention work focused on changing the campus and community environments in which college students make decisions about alcohol and other drug (AOD) use. This approach, called "environmental management," is based on three fundamental premises: (1) Substance use problems are aggravated by a physical, social,…
Descriptors: Prevention, Drinking, Drug Use, College Environment
Ewell, Peter T. – New Directions for Institutional Research, 2005
This chapter discusses the evolution of alumni studies in the United States and how alumni data can be used to inform public policy.
Descriptors: Public Policy, Alumni, Graduate Surveys, College Outcomes Assessment
