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Gray, Claire – Higher Education Quarterly, 2016
This paper reports on research into the operation of English further/higher education, with a focus on the role of partnerships in supporting the massification of higher education. The research draws on the bottom-up policy implementation tradition to provide analysis of the effects on partnerships of a quasi-marketised environment. The rationale…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Data Interpretation, Colleges, English
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Harmanani, Haidar M. – European Journal of Engineering Education, 2017
The calls for accountability in higher education have made outcome-based assessment a key accreditation component. Accreditation remains a well-regarded seal of approval on college quality, and requires the programme to set clear, appropriate, and measurable goals and courses to attain them. Furthermore, programmes must demonstrate that…
Descriptors: Computer Science Education, Outcome Based Education, Accreditation (Institutions), Institutional Evaluation
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Page, Stewart; Cramer, Kenneth M.; Page, Laura – Interchange: A Quarterly Review of Education, 2010
We present a data-based perspective concerning recent (e.g., 2008) "Maclean's" magazine rankings of Canadian universities, including cluster analysis of the 2008 data. Canadian universities empirically resemble and relate to each other in a manner different from their formal classification and final rank ordering in the…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Universities, Multivariate Analysis, Foreign Countries
Nandeshwar, Ashutosh R. – ProQuest LLC, 2010
In the modern world, higher education is transitioning from enrollment mode to recruitment mode. This shift paved the way for institutional research and policy making from historical data perspective. More and more universities in the U.S. are implementing and using enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems, which collect vast amounts of data.…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Institutional Research, Graduation Rate, Program Effectiveness
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Jones, Deborah – Management Communication Quarterly, 2002
Suggests communication auditors should be thought of as skilled and committed listeners to and within organizational communication processes. Distinguishes between functionalism and interpretivism in organizational communication. Describes a project based on a collaboration between scholars in sociolinguistics and organizational communication.…
Descriptors: Communication Audits, Data Interpretation, Evaluation Methods, Higher Education
Roberts, Susan M. – 1991
This paper explores the issues surrounding the study of higher education, usually involving the analysis of structural-functionalism, to less tradition-bound areas representing idealism. It examines these issues through the theoretical framework of symbolic interactionism which, it is noted, rests in the interpretive paradigm. The paper begins…
Descriptors: Data Interpretation, Educational Research, Evaluation Methods, Higher Education
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Levy, Rona L. – Research on Social Work Practice, 1996
Responds to Rubin and Knox's (1996) article concerning data analysis in single-case evaluations. Refutes the assertion that ambiguous data patterns discourage clinicians from doing single-case evaluations, and questions the assertion that emphasis on single-case designs should be reduced in the social work curriculum. (JPS)
Descriptors: Data Analysis, Data Interpretation, Education, Evaluation Methods
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Suen, Hoi K. – Evaluation and the Health Professions, 1984
The Bayesian inferential process is modified for use in an aggregate meta-analytic evaluation. Compared with the average effect size meta-analytic approach, the Bayesian approach was more sensitive, more consistent and more powerful. This approach is recommended when primary data are not available and when all evaluations involve comparisons of…
Descriptors: Bayesian Statistics, Data Interpretation, Effect Size, Evaluation Methods
Ozkan, Betul C.; McKenzie, Barbara K. – Online Submission, 2006
This paper explores a new approach to the evaluation of educational technologies by using Eisner's connoisseurship model. This model has two essential features in program evaluation: holistic approach to the analysis and interpretation of data and multiple perspectives in the evaluative tasks (Eisner, 1998). Using Eisner's model, the key…
Descriptors: Program Evaluation, Holistic Approach, Alternative Assessment, Educational Technology
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Chwalisz, Kathleen; And Others – Journal of Counseling Psychology, 1996
Identifies cognitive strategies used during the categorization of qualitative data and investigates how various factors may be related to the testimonial validity of the categories. Essay writers ranked sets of categories in terms of overall quality and rated them while thinking aloud. Think-aloud protocols for the "best" and…
Descriptors: Classification, Cognitive Structures, College Students, Data Interpretation
Connor, Martha – Currents, 1995
This article provides ideas on how to conduct alumni telephone surveys: (1) use the information gathered; (2) implement a survey; (3) develop appropriate questions; (4) test a survey instrument; (5) train interviewers; (6) collect the data; (7) analyze the results; (8) report the results; and (9) use the results to take action. (MDM)
Descriptors: Alumni, Colleges, Data Collection, Data Interpretation
Pollick, Anne M. – Currents, 1995
This article provides advice on how to plan and conduct an alumni census through the mail, drawing on the experiences of Stonehill College in North Easton, Massachusetts, which undertook such a survey in 1992. It focuses on costs, information needs, questionnaire design, mailing considerations, reporting the results, and expected response rates.…
Descriptors: Alumni, Colleges, Data Collection, Data Interpretation
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Wong, Stephen E. – Research on Social Work Practice, 1996
Responds to Rubin and Knox's (1996) article concerning data analysis in single-case evaluations. Takes issue on three points: misrepresentation of single-case experimental designs, logical inconsistencies, and skewed portrayal of weaknesses existing in single case designs. Discusses possible reasons why single-case designs are often…
Descriptors: Data Analysis, Data Collection, Data Interpretation, Evaluation Methods
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Rubin, Allen; Knox, Karen S. – Research on Social Work Practice, 1996
Data analysis problems, particularly involving the likelihood of obtaining visually ambiguous graphs, pose a barrier to efforts to promote increased use of single-case evaluation by practitioners. Uses findings from an evaluation of a cognitive-behavioral intervention with adolescent sex offenders to illustrate data analysis problems. (JPS)
Descriptors: Data Analysis, Data Interpretation, Evaluation Methods, Graphs
Forsyth, G. Alfred; And Others – 1995
A recent conference on statistics education recommended that more emphasis be placed on the interpretation of research (IOR). Ways for developing and assessing IOR and providing a systematic framework for creating and selecting instructional materials for the independent assessment of specific IOR concepts are the focus of this paper. The…
Descriptors: Data Interpretation, Evaluation Methods, Evaluation Research, Evaluative Thinking
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