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Stander, Julian; Dalla Valle, Luciana – Journal of Statistics Education, 2017
We discuss the learning goals, content, and delivery of a University of Plymouth intensive module delivered over four weeks entitled MATH1608PP Understanding Big Data from Social Networks, aimed at introducing students to a broad range of techniques used in modern Data Science. This module made use of R, accessed through RStudio, and some popular…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Students, College Mathematics, Statistics
Statistics Canada, Ottawa (Ontario). Education, Science, and Culture Div. – 1979
Instructions for using the computerized Canadian University Student Information System created by Statistics Canada are presented in this manual. The data base includes information on all students registered in Canadian universities, affiliates, and degree-granting colleges. A complete list of all available data elements and column headings that…
Descriptors: College Students, Computers, Data Processing, Databases
National Center for Education Statistics (ED), Washington, DC. – 1986
A file which contains data on financial aid and school costs, for a sample of students in the 1985-86 school year is presented. Each record contains information from the school registrar's office, from the student financial aid office record, and from a questionnaire completed by students. There are 3,774 records on the Statistical Analysis System…
Descriptors: Academic Records, College Students, Databases, Educational Finance
Brown, Kenneth G.; And Others – 1980
A research project underway at the University of Arizona is described, and the usefulness of the national data system of the Higher Education General Information Survey (HEGIS) to institutional researchers, as well as some drawbacks of the system, are considered. The need for institutions to have data on enrollment, budgets, and faculty/students…
Descriptors: College Planning, College Students, Comparative Analysis, Databases
National Center for Education Statistics (ED), Washington, DC. – 1986
The Postsecondary Education Transcript File of the National Longitudinal Study of the High School Class of 1972 (NLS-72) is a machine-readable data file containing information on transcripts from NLS-72 senior cohort members who reported attending a postsecondary institution after high school. Records were obtained from all types of educational…
Descriptors: Academic Records, College Credits, College Students, Courses
Rodriguez, Esther M., Ed.; Lenth, Charles S., Ed. – 1991
This compendium provides a guide to data collections in higher education focusing on sources that are national in scope, and updated and made available on a regular or periodic basis including surveys, data bases, reports, and statistical digests. These sources are divided into nine broad categories, each category contains separate entries for…
Descriptors: College Libraries, College Students, Comparative Analysis, Databases
Center for Statistics (ED/OERI), Washington, DC. – 1985
The High School and Beyond (HSB) Postsecondary Educational Transcript data file is provided. The transcript file includes data collected during 1984-85 from the school transcripts for all members of the HSB elder cohort (1980 senior cohort) who had attended any form of postsecondary institution since leaving high school. Data about the types and…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Records, College Students, Course Selection (Students)
Cashin, William E.; Slawson, Hugh M. – 1977
The data and computational procedures used by the IDEA system at Kansas State University (during the 1976-77 academic year) to interpret ratings of teacher performance are described in this technical report. The computations for each of the seven parts (evaluation, course description, students' self ratings, methods, additional questions,…
Descriptors: College Faculty, College Instruction, College Students, Comparative Analysis
Cashin, William E.; Slawson, Hugh M. – 1977
The data and computational procedures used by the IDEA System during the 1977-78 academic year at Kansas State University to interpret ratings of teacher performance are described in this technical report. The computations for each of the seven parts (evaluation, course description, students' self-ratings, methods, additional questions, diagnostic…
Descriptors: College Faculty, College Instruction, College Students, Comparative Analysis
Cashin, William E.; Perrin, Bruce M. – 1978
The data and computational procedures used by the IDEA System to generate IDEA Reports from information collected on the Standard Form of the IDEA Survey Form are described in this technical report. The computations for each of the seven parts of the IDEA Report are explained. The data base used for this 1978-79 Kansas State University study…
Descriptors: College Faculty, College Instruction, College Students, Comparative Analysis