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Lester, Cathe – New Directions for Institutional Research, 2010
Institutional researchers are responsible for the collection, organization, analysis, and maintenance of large amounts of personally identifiable data on students, faculty, and staff. Not only are institutional research (IR) offices required to report these data to state and federal agencies, they are also responsible for providing information to…
Descriptors: Institutional Research, Researchers, Personnel Data, Statistical Data
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Firnberg, James W.; Christal, Melodie E. – College and University, 1984
A survey of institutions concerning their reporting of data on the Higher Education General Information Survey and specifically examining the differences in definitions and calculations among reporting institutions, confirmed suspected problems of comparability of information. The impact of these differences on data interpretation is discussed.…
Descriptors: Computation, Data Analysis, Definitions, Federal Government