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Direct linkMaxwell, 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
Download full textFulcher, 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
Sloan, Tine Falk – Educational Research for Policy and Practice, 2015
The current U.S. education agenda places unprecedented attention on improving the quality of its roughly fifteen hundred teacher preparation programs. The effort places considerable weight on measuring program effectiveness and includes a push to hold programs accountable for their graduates' effects on student performance. Concerns regarding the…
Descriptors: Program Improvement, Accountability, Teacher Education Programs, Data
Vanover, Charles; Hodges, Olivia – School Leadership & Management, 2015
This case study uses evidence collected for accreditation and programme improvement at a small university Master's and certification programme in Educational Leadership Development to describe efforts to help leadership candidates use data during the programme's final internship experience. Programme features supporting the growth of candidates'…
Descriptors: Data, Data Analysis, Internship Programs, Program Improvement
Tucker, Mary L.; Gullekson, Nicole L.; McCambridge, Jim – Research in Higher Education Journal, 2011
Business students are increasingly seeking international experience in short-term, study abroad programs to enhance their intercultural knowledge, intercultural communication skills, and global perspectives to be more competitive in the global arena. Intuitively, universities initiating these programs and the students sojourning abroad believe in…
Descriptors: Study Abroad, Program Effectiveness, Program Evaluation, Achievement Gains
Fulcher, Keston H.; Orem, Chris D. – Research & Practice in Assessment, 2010
Higher education experts tout learning outcomes assessment as a vehicle for program improvement. To this end the authors share a rubric designed explicitly to evaluate the quality of assessment and how it leads to program improvement. The rubric contains six general assessment areas, which are further broken down into 14 elements. Embedded within…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Scoring Rubrics, Educational Quality, Program Improvement
