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Rory McGreal – International Journal of E-Learning & Distance Education, 2023
Micro-credentials can provide easily accessible and transparent evidence of skills or knowledge that have been certified by an authority, based on small units of learning. The recognition and transfer of credits is becoming essential, as an increasing number of students are studying at different institutions, often at the same time, online or in…
Descriptors: Microcredentials, Information Storage, Databases, Technology Uses in Education
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Culbertson, Anna; Lanthorne, Amanda – Across the Disciplines, 2021
This article considers ethical issues of consent and privacy during each phase of archival stewardship. The authors examine flaws in traditional archival theory that contribute to oppression and silencing and highlight unique collections and practices at San Diego State University that begin to set the 21st century archive apart. We focus on…
Descriptors: Praxis, Informed Consent, Privacy, Ethics
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Atchison, Eric S.; Hosch, Braden J. – New Directions for Institutional Research, 2015
This chapter synthesizes the national discussion on other solutions to the Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS), such as a national student record system, and complications. The authors will briefly examine the pros and cons of IPEDS while primarily focusing on national alternatives, as well providing specific examples for…
Descriptors: Benchmarking, Postsecondary Education, Databases, Student Records
Perry, Angela – Project on Student Debt, 2019
California has long been a national and global leader in developing and maintaining quality higher education options, as well as in providing financial aid and consumer protections for Californians who access that education. However, although California's colleges and the state government do collect, receive, and report a great deal of data, these…
Descriptors: Education Work Relationship, Access to Information, Wages, Data Collection
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Oliver, Astrid; Prosser, Eric; Chittenden, Lloyd – Journal of Access Services, 2016
This case study examines patron record privacy and the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA) within a consortial environment. FERPA requirements were examined, as well as college and library policy and procedure. It was determined that information in library patron records is directory information and, under most circumstances, does…
Descriptors: College Libraries, Library Services, Student Records, Privacy
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Pittayachawan, Siddhi; Macauley, Peter; Evans, Terry – Journal of Higher Education Policy and Management, 2016
This article reports how statistical analyses of PhD thesis records can reveal future research capacities for disciplines beyond their primary fields. The previous research showed that most theses contributed to and/or used methodologies from more than one discipline. In Australia, there was a concern for declining mathematical teaching and…
Descriptors: Databases, Doctoral Dissertations, Foreign Countries, Statistical Analysis
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Krieg, John M.; Theobald, Roddy; Goldhaber, Dan – Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, 2016
We use data from Washington State to examine two stages of the teacher pipeline: the placement of prospective teachers into student teaching assignments and the hiring of prospective teachers into their first teaching positions. We find that prospective teachers are likely to complete their student teaching near their college and hometowns but…
Descriptors: Student Teaching, Student Teachers, Teacher Placement, Preservice Teachers
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Krieg, John M.; Theobald, Roddy; Goldhaber, Dan – Grantee Submission, 2016
We use data from Washington State to examine two stages of the teacher pipeline: the placement of prospective teachers in student teaching assignments; and the hiring of prospective teachers into their first teaching positions. We find that prospective teachers are likely to complete their student teaching near their college and hometowns, but…
Descriptors: Student Teaching, Student Teachers, Teacher Placement, Preservice Teachers
Data Quality Campaign, 2014
Teachers have access to information about the students in their classrooms each year, but schools and districts often cannot provide teachers with longitudinal data (or data linked over time). Given resource constraints in schools and districts, states are best positioned to ensure that teachers have secure access to their students' longitudinal…
Descriptors: Student Records, Privacy, Student Mobility, Access to Information
Smith, Peter – New England Journal of Higher Education, 2015
With its October 2014 day-long conference on competency-based education and Higher Education Innovation Challenge (HEIC), the New England Board of Higher Education (NEBHE) is creating a space in which New England states and institutions can wrestle with the critical issues driven by abundant information. The HEIC lists multiple areas where the…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Access to Information, Student Records, Databases
Jordan, Elizabeth; Schultz, Thomas; King, Carlise – Early Childhood Data Collaborative, 2015
Head Start programs are a critical component of early care and education. At present, there is no requirement for local Head Start programs to link or share their data with other state data systems. However, several states are making advances toward linking and/or sharing data across their state's K-12 data system or other services' data systems.…
Descriptors: Early Intervention, Early Childhood Education, At Risk Students, Data
Scott, George A. – US Government Accountability Office, 2013
The US Government Accountability Office (GAO) began a study to compare English Language Learner (ELL) enrollment in charter schools to ELL enrollment in traditional public schools. For the study, they obtained ELL enrollment counts for school year 2010-11 from the U.S. Department of Education's (Education's) only available dataset containing the…
Descriptors: Charter Schools, English Language Learners, Enrollment Trends, Public Schools
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Herrera, Cheryl – Research in Higher Education Journal, 2013
This study is designed to understand the patterns of selection, preparation, retention and graduation of undergraduate pre-licensure clinical nursing students in the College of Nursing and Health Innovation at Arizona State University enrolled in 2007 and 2008. The resulting patterns may guide policy decision making regarding future cohorts in…
Descriptors: Statistical Analysis, Undergraduate Students, Nursing Students, Nursing Education
National Student Clearinghouse, 2014
Since the 2008-09 academic year, the National Student Clearinghouse has provided its participating institutions with the option to include 13 additional data elements in their enrollment submissions. These additional data elements help make Clearinghouse data more comprehensive and enable StudentTracker? participants to utilize a more robust data…
Descriptors: Databases, Student Records, Enrollment, Postsecondary Education
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Miller, Nathan B. – Journal of Continuing Higher Education, 2014
The prominence of discourse on postsecondary degree completion, student persistence, and retention has increased in the national dialogue. Heightened attention to college completion rates by the federal government and pressure to tie state funding to performance metrics associated with graduation rates are catalysts for the discussion.…
Descriptors: Benchmarking, Graduation Rate, Nontraditional Students, Postsecondary Education
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