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Díaz, Victoria E.; McKeown, Stephanie; Peña, Camilo – British Columbia Council on Admissions and Transfer, 2023
This project reviews data collection practices regarding race, ethnicity and ancestry (REA) in post-secondary institutions (PSIs) in Canada, as well as in other relevant sectors (e.g., health, K-12 education, government agencies). The goal of the project was to identify promising practices and to develop recommendations to guide REA data…
Descriptors: Data Collection, Data Use, Student Characteristics, Race
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Reniers, Jennifer; Mathany, Clarke; Farkas, Megan; Pollock, Heather; Husband, Brian C. – Canadian Journal for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, 2022
Curriculum mapping is the process of creating a visual representation of the teaching and assessment of learning outcomes in a degree, program or major. Best practice recommendations about curriculum mapping typically focus on mapping individual programs. Therefore, many recommendations, such as meeting individually with faculty as they map their…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Concept Mapping, Higher Education, Majors (Students)
Chelsea McCracken; Ruby MacDougall – ITHAKA S+R, 2025
Research data services--support offerings which enable and improve data-intensive research--have garnered sustained attention from library research support service providers for nearly two decades. Libraries have played a leading role in developing research data services, and on most university campuses they provide the largest and most diverse…
Descriptors: Researchers, Data Analysis, Research Methodology, Universities
British Columbia Council on Admissions and Transfer, 2021
This report focuses on data governance at post-secondary institutions and related organizations. Data governance is defined as the formal execution and enforcement of authority over the management of data and data-related assets (Seiner, 2014). An overview of data governance at higher education institutions provides detail on elements of data…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Data, Governance, Postsecondary Education
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Fruin, Christine; Sutton, Shan – College & Research Libraries, 2016
Recognizing the paucity of quantitative and qualitative data from North American educational institutions that have pursued open access policies, the authors devised a survey to collect information on the characteristics of these institutions, as well as the elements of the open access policies, the methods of promoting these policies, faculty…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Electronic Publishing, Schools, Foreign Countries
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Kay, Robin; Benzimra, Daniel; Li, Jia – Journal of Educational Computing Research, 2017
Previous research on distractions and the use of mobile devices (personal digital assistants, tablet personal computers, or laptops) have been conducted almost exclusively in higher education. The purpose of the current study was to examine the frequency and influence of distracting behaviors in Bring Your Own Device secondary school classrooms.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Influence of Technology, Attention Control, Handheld Devices
Paradise, Andrew; Heaton, Paul – Council for Advancement and Support of Education, 2013
In 2011, CASE founded the Center for Community College Advancement to provide training and resources to help community colleges build and sustain effective fundraising, alumni relations and communications and marketing programs. This white paper summarizes the results of a groundbreaking survey on alumni relations programs at community colleges…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Alumni, Public Relations, Benchmarking
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Simpson, Allie; Waye, Laurie – BC TEAL Journal, 2016
In the spring of 2015, the Centre for Academic Communication (CAC) at the University of Victoria began a series of projects aimed at understanding the needs of undergraduate and graduate students with English as additional language (EAL), with the goal of increasing the effectiveness of the Centre's programming. The first project, detailed in this…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Students, Student Attitudes, Feedback (Response)
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Patterson, Liane; Martzoukou, Konstantina – Journal of Librarianship and Information Science, 2012
The present study investigated the processes information professionals, working in a business environment, follow to meet business clients' information needs and particularly their involvement in information synthesis and analysis practices. A combination of qualitative and quantitative data was collected via a survey of 98 information…
Descriptors: Information Needs, Information Seeking, Information Scientists, Internet
Tatto, Maria Teresa, Ed. – International Association for the Evaluation of Educational Achievement, 2013
The Teacher Education and Development Study in Mathematics (TEDS-M), conducted under the aegis of the International Association for the Evaluation of Educational Achievement (IEA), was designed to inform policy and practice in mathematics teacher education. For educational policymakers, TEDS-M contributes data on institutional arrangements that…
Descriptors: Mathematics Teachers, Preservice Teacher Education, Elementary School Teachers, Secondary School Teachers
OECD Publishing, 2014
The Programme for International Assessment of Adult Competencies (PIAAC) will establish technical standards and guidelines to ensure that the survey design and implementation processes of PIAAC yield high-quality and internationally comparable data. This document provides a revised version of the technical standards and guidelines originally…
Descriptors: Adults, International Assessment, Adult Literacy, Competence
Humphries, Jennifer; Knight-Grofe, Janine; McDine, David – Canadian Bureau for International Education, 2012
This annual report explores the state of international education in Canada, taking an in-depth look at international students, study abroad by Canadian students, Canadian education overseas, as well as the overall internationalization agenda in Canada. The report features results of an international student survey and case studies from member…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, International Education, Annual Reports, Foreign Students
Daval, Nicola, Comp.; McConnell, Margaret, Comp. – 1988
This report presents data, describing mostly on-site institutional resources, from the 118 U.S. and Canadian research libraries that were members of the Association of Research Libraries (ARL) during the 1986-87 fiscal year. The following information is included in the document: (1) ARL library data tables reflecting data on collections,…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Data Collection, Doctoral Degrees, Enrollment
Denis, Laurent-G.; Auster, Ethel – 1988
This exploratory study focuses on the management of decline as characterized by shrinking resources and substantial reductions in operating budgets (retrenchment) in academic research libraries in Canada. The first of four major sections of the report addresses the management of retrenchment in Canadian research libraries, including the design of…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Data Collection, Foreign Countries, Higher Education
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Slade, Alexander L. – 1988
This report involved a survey of 199 postsecondary institutions in Canada to determine how many universities and colleges provide some type of library support for their off-campus and distance-education students; and to tabulate and compare the types of library support provided by those institutions. The report contains narrative, a series of 21…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Comparative Analysis, Data Collection, Distance Education
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