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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)
Stephanie Ochocki; Deirdre Stalnecker; Lou Paschall – Children & Schools, 2024
Beginning in 1906, the teachers who developed the profession of school social work conducted home visits to bridge communication between the school and home. In the more than 100 years that the profession has continued, home visiting has remained a cornerstone. Despite its continued importance, there remains a lack of comprehensive instruction on…
Descriptors: Social Work, Home Visits, School Social Workers, Educational History
Dodge, Keristiena; Pawaskar, Sachin – Metropolitan Universities, 2020
Higher education institutions are increasingly required to provide a measured response to perceptions that challenge institutions' value proposition as assets to their communities. This article focuses on best practices in the campus' efforts to create a pathway to demonstrate community impact. The ability of systematic tracking of partnership and…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Best Practices, Partnerships in Education, School Community Relationship
Nowicki, Ewa – College and University, 2019
Current college-aged students, broadly referred to in this article as Gen Z, are entering adulthood with the concept of gender as a spectrum rather than a binary. However, student information systems (SISs) in use throughout U.S. higher education institutions were built with retention and collection practices relative to binary sex and identity…
Descriptors: Success, Higher Education, College Students, Best Practices
Reidenberg, Joel R.; Schaub, Florian – Theory and Research in Education, 2018
Education, Big Data, and student privacy are a combustible mix. The improvement of education and the protection of student privacy are key societal values. Big Data and Learning Analytics offer the promise of unlocking insights to improving education through large-scale empirical analysis of data generated from student information and student…
Descriptors: Data Collection, Information Security, Student Records, Privacy
Corti, Louise; Van den Eynden, Veerle – International Journal of Social Research Methodology, 2015
Researchers' responsibilities towards their research data are changing across all domains of social scientific endeavour. Government, funders and publishers expect greater transparency of, open access to, and re-use of research data, and fears over data loss call for more robust information security practices. Researchers must develop, enhance and…
Descriptors: Data Collection, Research Methodology, Teaching Methods, Curriculum Development
Fulcher, Keston H.; Smith, Kristen L.; Sanchez, Elizabeth R. H.; Ames, Allison J.; Meixner, Cara – Research & Practice in Assessment, 2017
Higher education has made impressive progress concerning student learning outcomes assessment practices. Yet--despite the assumption that better assessment would lead to better student learning--few examples of demonstrable student learning improvement exist at the academic degree or university levels. In 2014 Fulcher, Good, Coleman, and Smith…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Educational Improvement, Best Practices, Student Evaluation
Chow, Timothy K. C. – New Directions for Institutional Research, 2012
Guided by the missions and visions, higher education institutions utilize benchmarking processes to identify better and more efficient ways to carry out their operations. Aside from the initial planning and organization steps involved in benchmarking, a matching or selection step is crucial for identifying other institutions that have good…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Benchmarking, Best Practices, Reputation
APPA: Association of Higher Education Facilities Officers, 2014
The 2014 Thought Leaders Symposium, sponsored in part by DTZ, a UGL company, and Jacobs, focused on the issues and challenges related to leveraging campus facility assets to achieve desired institutional outcomes. More than three dozen higher education leaders--including presidents, provosts, business officers, consultants, association executives,…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Colleges, Educational Facilities, Administrators
Huff-Eibl, Robyn; Miller-Wells, John; Begay, Wendy – Journal of Access Services, 2014
This article describes the process and role frontline access and public service staff play in needs assessment and evaluation of user services, specifically in understanding the voice of the customer. Information includes how the University of Arizona Libraries have incorporated daily data collection into the strategic planning process, resources…
Descriptors: Library Services, Library Development, Decision Making, Data
Andrews, James P. – ProQuest LLC, 2012
This qualitative research study focuses on crisis events affecting university international populations. It explores how seven directors of university international offices at seven different geographical locations in Texas respond to those events. The study findings shed light on the current state of crisis preparedness in higher education from…
Descriptors: Crisis Management, Foreign Students, College Students, Risk Management
Washington Higher Education Coordinating Board, 2011
The Higher Education Opportunity Act (E2SHB 1795), passed by the Legislature in 2011, identified prior learning assessment (PLA) as an innovative means for improving degree and certificate attainment and improving cost effectiveness and efficiency within Washington's higher education system. The Act defines prior learning as "the knowledge…
Descriptors: Prior Learning, Higher Education, College Credits, Adult Students
Scholder, Tara E.; Maguire, Linda Cox – Association for Institutional Research (NJ1), 2009
As students are asked to share more of the costs of a post-secondary education, the quality of their overall educational experience and perceived return on investment (ROI) are increasingly important. For prospective students and their parents, what they are told they can expect from the student experience at an institution often makes the most…
Descriptors: Institutional Research, Higher Education, College Students, Student Experience
Best Practices in Academic Assessment in Higher Education: A Case in Formative and Shared Assessment
López Pastor, Víctor M. – Journal of Technology and Science Education, 2011
The aim of this article is three-fold: (a) to present an example of best practices in formative assessment in university instruction, offering three different methods of learning and assessment to pass a subject; (b) to analyze differences in academic performance depending on method of learning and assessment chosen; (c) to consider professors'…
Descriptors: Best Practices, Higher Education, Formative Evaluation, Academic Achievement
Excelencia in Education (NJ1), 2012
Institutional leaders, educators, and policymakers are challenged to improve educational outcomes for all students, including Latinos. "Excelencia" in Education responds to this challenge by linking research, policy, and practice that supports higher educational achievement for Latino students. Premier in this effort is Examples of…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Human Capital, Hispanic American Students, Achievement Gap
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