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Ferrão, Maria Eugénia – Journal of College Student Development, 2020
A broad consensus regarding the need for universities to cultivate academic success has emerged because many students do not achieve their goals or optimally benefit from their higher education (HE) experiences (Altbach, 2014; Davidson & Wilson, 2014; Ferrão & Almeida, 2019; Meggiolaro, Giraldo, & Clerici, 2017; Tinto & Pusser,…
Descriptors: Statistical Analysis, Research Methodology, Educational Research, Higher Education
Zoller, Frank A.; Zimmerling, Eric; Boutellier, Roman – Higher Education: The International Journal of Higher Education and Educational Planning, 2014
The funding environment has a profound impact on researchers' behavior. In particular, it influences their freedom and readiness to conduct research ventures with highly uncertain outcomes. In this conceptual paper, we propose a concise new methodology to evaluate researchers' risk aversion based on citation statistics. The derived…
Descriptors: Financial Support, Researchers, Risk, Freedom
Burns, Shelley, Ed.; Wang, Xiaolei, Ed.; Henning, Alexandra, Ed. – National Center for Education Statistics, 2011
Since its inception, the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) has been committed to the practice of documenting its statistical methods for its customers and of seeking to avoid misinterpretation of its published data. The reason for this policy is to assure customers that proper statistical standards and techniques have been observed,…
Descriptors: National Surveys, Data Processing, Statistical Data, Data Collection
Pattison, Sandra; Hargreaves, Jo – National Centre for Vocational Education Research (NCVER), 2009
The National Centre for Vocational Education Research (NCVER) was asked by Technical and Further Education (TAFE) Directors Australia to consider, in a discussion paper for their conference held on the Gold Coast in September 2009, how a "tertiary education" sector impacts on the way people think about research and statistics. While a…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Foreign Countries, Databases, Statistics
Smith, Andrew; Courvisanos, Jerry; Tuck, Jacqueline; McEachern, Steven – National Centre for Vocational Education Research (NCVER), 2012
This document was produced by the authors based on their research for the report "Building the Capacity to Innovate: The Role of Human Capital," and is an added resource for further information. This document contains the following appendices: (1) Survey methodology; (2) Synopsis of the literature; (3) Interview questions; and (4) Survey…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Questionnaires, Research Methodology, Literature Reviews
State Higher Education Executive Officers, 2012
The State Higher Education Finance (SHEF) report is produced annually by the State Higher Education Executive Officers (SHEEO) to broaden understanding of the context and consequences of multiple decisions made every year in each of these areas. No single report can provide definitive answers to such broad and fundamental questions of public…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Tax Effort, Income, Educational Finance

Yost, Michael – New Directions for Institutional Research, 1988
Even the application of such mainstays of the institutional researcher's statistical tool kit as the t test and ANOVA is not always as straightforward as it seems. The researcher must first check to see that the underlying methodological and statistical assumptions are being met. (Author)
Descriptors: Analysis of Variance, Higher Education, Institutional Research, Research Methodology

Wachter, Kenneth W. – Science, 1988
Defines meta-analysis as statistical procedures for combining results from previous separate studies. Discusses four charges promoted by some skeptics as it relates to this statistical procedure. States that many of the trends making a place for meta-analysis are disturbing. (RT)
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Effect Size, Higher Education, Meta Analysis

McMillan, Julie; Western, John – Higher Education, 2000
Criticizes the accuracy of the methodology currently used by the Australian Department of Education, Training and Youth Affairs for identifying socioeconomic status of higher education students. Proposes new individually based measures related to the occupation and education of parents when the student was in high school. (Author/DB)
Descriptors: College Students, Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Research Methodology

Crary, Lowell J.; Leslie, Larry L. – Journal of Education Finance, 1978
This paper provides empirical, relatively assumption-free, estimates of the private costs of participating in postsecondary education. The data base is the National Longitudinal Study of the High School Class of 1972. Previous attempts to make such estimates are examined. (Author/IRT)
Descriptors: Costs, Higher Education, Postsecondary Education, Research Methodology

Kazoleas, Dean C. – Communication Quarterly, 1993
Examines the effectiveness of quantitative and qualitative evidence in impacting initial attitude change and the persistence of that change. Finds that both types of evidence are equally effective in changing attitudes but that the attitude change elicited by qualitative evidence tends to be significantly more persistent over time and that recall…
Descriptors: Attitude Change, Case Studies, Higher Education, Hypothesis Testing
National Science Foundation, 2008
This report contains analyses of key aspects of the scope, quality, and vitality of the Nation's science and engineering enterprise and global science and technology. The report presents information on science, mathematics, and engineering education at all levels; the scientific and engineering workforce; U.S. and international and development…
Descriptors: Engineering Education, Research and Development, Elementary Secondary Education, Engineering
Gale, James R. – 1988
The study developed a general method for analyzing the economic impact of international university students on a local or regional economy and applied the methodology to Michigan Technological University. Major findings included the following: international students accounted for $2,693,814 in total direct and indirect expenditures in the region…
Descriptors: Accounting, Economic Impact, Foreign Students, Higher Education

Gilbert, G. Nigel – Teaching Sociology, 1978
Describes how a computer program which simulates four techniques of town sampling can be used to teach survey sampling in a college level social research methods course. (Author/DB)
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Evaluation, Higher Education, Measurement Techniques

Hinkle, Dennis E.; And Others – New Directions for Institutional Research, 1988
The data collected in higher education research are not always quantitative or continuous. Statistical methods using the log-linear model provide the institutional researcher with a powerful set of tools for addressing research questions when data are categorical. (Author/MSE)
Descriptors: Data Interpretation, Higher Education, Information Utilization, Institutional Research