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Tim Gill – Research Matters, 2025
One of the main aims of Core Maths qualifications when they were introduced into the post-16 curriculum in 2014 was to help students develop their understanding of maths and its application to different subject areas, particularly in relation to further study (e.g., higher education). In this article, we explore whether Core Maths is fulfilling…
Descriptors: Mathematics Education, Classification, Educational Benefits, Dropout Rate
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Kisling, Reid; Peterson, Andrew; Nisbet, Robert – Strategic Enrollment Management Quarterly, 2021
Data analytics is undergoing an evolution through effective data use to support both operational and learning analytics models. However, this evolution will require that institutional leaders transform their data systems to best support the needs of application modeling and use their intuition to help drive the development of better analytical…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Learning Analytics, Models, Instructional Leadership
Campaign for College Opportunity, 2019
With over 37 million residents, California is the most populous state in the country. California's primary and secondary schools enroll over 6.2 million students,1 and there are 3.4 million undergraduates attending 683 postsecondary institutions in California. Yet, because of the lack of a strong data infrastructure, we are unable to answer basic…
Descriptors: Data Collection, Data Analysis, Higher Education, Access to Education
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Cunha, Jesse M.; Miller, Trey; Weisburst, Emily – Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, 2018
We study GO Centers, a college information program that is run by student peers and provides information about all aspects of the college-going process to academically prepared students on the margin of attending college. We use the semi-random rollout of the program along with detailed panel data on the universe of Texas public school students to…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Postsecondary Education, Information Dissemination, College Attendance
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
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Radwin, David; Conzelmann, Johnathan G.; Nunnery, Annaliza; Lacy, T. Austin; Wu, Joanna; Lew, Stephen; Wine, Jennifer; Siegel, Peter – National Center for Education Statistics, 2018
This First Look report presents selected findings about student financial aid during the 2015-16 academic year. These findings are based on data from the 2015-16 National Postsecondary Student Aid Study (NPSAS:16), a nationally representative sample survey of undergraduate and graduate students enrolled any time between July 1, 2015, and June 30,…
Descriptors: Student Financial Aid, Postsecondary Education, Higher Education, Paying for College
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McConahay, Mark; Hanson, Karen; West, Ann; Woodbeck, Dean – College and University, 2009
On every college and university campus, common themes weave throughout identity and access management (IAM) and its relationship to Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA). Institutions approach IAM differently as there is not a one-size-fits-all solution. Nevertheless, all face common elements. Over the past few years, a number of…
Descriptors: Student Records, Information Management, Privacy, Information Systems
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Musoba, Glenda D.; Gross, Jacob P. K.; Hossler, Don – New Directions for Institutional Research, 2008
The world of policymaking on the campuses of colleges and universities is messy, ambiguous, and contested. In this complex environment, which Kingdon (2003) has aptly called a "policy soup," the role of institutional research is often not only to provide answers to existing policy questions but to produce information to help transform…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Institutional Research, Role, Educational Policy
Kugle, Cherry; Smith, Nancy – Data Quality Campaign, 2008
The Data Quality Campaign is a national, collaborative effort to encourage and support state policymakers to improve the collection, availability and use of high-quality education data and to implement state longitudinal data systems to improve student achievement. The campaign aims to provide tools and resources that will assist state development…
Descriptors: Longitudinal Studies, Data Collection, Databases, Higher Education
Ewell, Peter; Boeke, Marianne – Lumina Foundation for Education, 2007
In April 2003, Lumina Foundation for Education published a comprehensive inventory of state-level student unit record (SUR) capacity--an inventory conducted in 2002 by the National Center for Higher Education Management Systems (NCHEMS) and titled "Following the Mobile Student: Can We Develop the Capacity for a Comprehensive Database to…
Descriptors: Management Systems, Databases, Measures (Individuals), Surveys
Shaw, Emily J.; Mattern, Krista D. – College Board, 2010
[Slides] presented at AERA in Denver, CO in April 2010. This study examined the relationship between students' self-reported high school grade point average (HSGPA) from the SAT Questionnaire and their HSGPA provided by the colleges and universities they attend. The purpose of this research was to offer updated information on the relatedness of…
Descriptors: Accuracy, Grade Point Average, High School Students, Correlation
Furchtgott-Roth, Diana; Jacobson, Louis; Mokher, Christine G. – Economic Mobility Project, 2009
Past research from Pew's Economic Mobility Project (EMP) has shown that a college degree quadruples the chances that an individual born into the bottom income quintile will reach the top quintile in adulthood. For community colleges in particular, the project has shown that getting a community college degree increases earnings by an average of…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Income, Outcomes of Education, Higher Education
Roemer, Al – American School and University, 1979
At the University of Dayton in Ohio, a database management system maintains records of 10,000 students from their initial admission application until graduation. (Author)
Descriptors: Computer Science, Cost Effectiveness, Databases, Higher Education
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Fields, Cheryl – Change: The Magazine of Higher Learning, 2005
Another topic involving privacy has attracted considerable attention in recent months--the "student unit record" issue. The U.S. Department of Education concluded in March that it would be feasible to help address lawmakers' concerns about accountability in higher education by constructing a database capable of tracking students from institution…
Descriptors: Student Records, Information Management, Higher Education, Federal Government
Engmark, Jill – 1990
In 1987, the Arizona legislature began a process of establishing statewide goals for the improvement of the state's educational system. A joint legislative committee developed specific goals in the areas of student achievement, high school graduation rate, and postschool employment and college enrollment. To produce the baseline data necessary in…
Descriptors: Data Analysis, Databases, Elementary Secondary Education, Higher Education
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