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Laguilles, Jerold S. – New Directions for Institutional Research, 2016
This chapter describes the background and process for collecting postgraduation outcomes data at a 4-year not-for-profit private college. The strategies, analyses, and reporting of this data-collection effort are highlighted with the use of a case study.
Descriptors: Private Colleges, Outcome Measures, Data Collection, Graduate Study
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Heydinger, Richard B.; Norris, Donald M. – New Directions for Institutional Research, 1976
The expanding networks of computer hardware, software, and organizations for controlling them and the institutional data bases they access are described. Improvements are making the data sources accessible but raise some new problems for data managers and institutional researchers. (Author/LBH)
Descriptors: Computer Science, Data Processing, Databases, Higher Education
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Virunurm, Valdeko; Gaunt, Roger N. – New Directions for Institutional Research, 1977
Sophisticated computer technology now allows for increasingly adaptable privacy safeguards. Various protection mechanisms are described, including password technology and encryption techniques, and administrative guidelines are offered. (Editor/LBH)
Descriptors: Computer Science, Confidential Records, Consumer Protection, Data Collection
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Fincher, Cameron L. – New Directions for Institutional Research, 1983
The politics of information on college campuses are seen in national, regional, and statewide concern with planning, management, and evaluation. Concepts, methods, and information-processing styles in each of these three institutional functions have been greatly influenced by political pressures in the past 15 years. (Author/MLW)
Descriptors: College Administration, Data Processing, Evaluation, Higher Education