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Direct linkLarkan-Skinner, Kara; Shedd, Jessica M. – New Directions for Institutional Research, 2020
As institutions seek to shift into more advanced analytics and data-based decision-support, many institutional research offices face the challenge of meeting the office's current demands while taking on more intricate and specialized work to support decision-making. Given the great need organizations have for information that supports real-time…
Descriptors: Data, Data Analysis, Prediction, Data Use
Carolyn A. Wiley – ProQuest LLC, 2020
As federal guidelines have increased reporting demands on all sectors of education (United States Department of Education [USDOE], 2015) and state reporting requirements have expanded as legislatures call for performance-based funding (National Conference of State Legislatures, 2015), the need for institutional research offices has become the norm…
Descriptors: Institutional Research, Organizational Change, Data, Data Use
Jayson Seaman; Robert MacArthur; Sean Harrington – History of Education Review, 2020
Purpose: The article discusses Outward Bound's participation in the human potential movement through its incorporation of T-group practices and the reform language of experiential education in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Design/methodology/approach: The article reports on original research conducted using materials from Dartmouth College and…
Descriptors: Educational History, Experiential Learning, Program Evaluation, Institutional Research
The Analytics Revolution in Higher Education: Big Data, Organizational Learning, and Student Success
Gagliardi, Jonathan S., Ed.; Parnell, Amelia, Ed.; Carpenter-Hubin, Julia, Ed. – Stylus Publishing LLC, 2018
In this era of "Big Data," institutions of higher education are challenged to make the most of the information they have to improve student learning outcomes, close equity gaps, keep costs down, and address the economic needs of the communities they serve at the local, regional, and national levels. This book helps readers understand and…
Descriptors: Educational Research, Data Collection, Data Analysis, Higher Education
Clasemann, Cory; Boon, Rachel Dykstra – New Directions for Institutional Research, 2019
Although not a new phenomenon, student swirl and drift continues to grow, and student enrollment patterns are becoming progressively more complex. Many students attend multiple institutions throughout their academic careers, either separately or concurrently, often starting while they are still enrolled in high school. The role of institutional…
Descriptors: Student Development, School Holding Power, Academic Persistence, Transfer Students
Hawkins, Christie; Bailey, Lucy E. – New Directions for Institutional Research, 2020
The increasing volume of information and the intense pace of its circulation are changing the ways universities access, use, analyze, and provide data. Many have championed the use of large-scale databases to track student admissions and retention, faculty productivity, student wellness, and other phenomena that shape our understandings of higher…
Descriptors: Institutional Research, Data Analysis, Data Use, Colleges
Woolcott, Geoff; Keast, Robyn; Pickernell, David – Studies in Higher Education, 2020
Measuring impact from university research is increasingly seen as important, not least because of its use in resource allocation processes by governments. These measurement approaches, however, often take 'wide and shallow' economic effect-based views that are ex-post, linear and uni-directional. Consequently, research collaborations between…
Descriptors: Universities, Educational Research, Institutional Research, Social Networks
Elijah Rashad Khatib – ProQuest LLC, 2020
The purpose of this study was to examine Georgia STEM certification requirements for schools and the resources and barriers associated with acquiring certification. This was achieved by investigating the certification experience of a state of Georgia STEM certified school. The study aims to understand how certification decisions were made, what…
Descriptors: Elementary Schools, STEM Education, Accreditation (Institutions), State Standards
Kimball, Ezekiel; Loya, Karla I. – New Directions for Institutional Research, 2017
Framed by Terenzini's revision of his classic "On the nature of institutional research" article, this chapter offers concluding thoughts on the way in which technical/analytical, issues, and contextual types of awarenesses appeared across chapters in this volume. Moreover, it outlines how each chapter demonstrated how qualitative inquiry…
Descriptors: Qualitative Research, Inquiry, Institutional Research, Intelligence
O'Connell, Catherine – Studies in Higher Education, 2019
This article examines responses to a new impact indicator introduced to the UK Research Excellence Framework (REF). While analysts have pointed to opportunities in impact policy for educational research as a field, the requirement to demonstrate impact beyond the academy poses challenges for research relating to higher education. The study…
Descriptors: Educational Research, Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Instructional Effectiveness
Download full textPecorella, Robert F. – Issues in Interdisciplinary Studies, 2019
This article, which presents an interdisciplinary research agenda grounded in a constructivist institutional approach, begins by unpacking relevant terms. It explains the new institutional approach in political science that simultaneously narrows the focus and broadens the scope of political research by encouraging a return to the…
Descriptors: Educational Research, Interdisciplinary Approach, Political Science, Constructivism (Learning)
Umbricht, Mark; Stange, Kevin – Association for Institutional Research, 2019
Every term, institutions of higher education must make decisions about the class size for each class they offer, which can have implications for student outcomes, satisfaction, and cost. These decisions must be made within the current higher education landscape of tightening budgets and calls for increased productivity. Beyond institution decision…
Descriptors: Class Size, Higher Education, Student Experience, College Students
Al Lily, Abdulrahman Essa; Alhazmi, Ahmed Ali; Alsubaie, Merfat Ayesh; Alzahrani, Saleh; Bukhamseen, Amani Mohammed; Aldoughan, Eman Abdulaziz; Almudhafar, Fuad Ahmed; Maher, Eman Ahmed; Al-Abdullatif, Ahlam Mohammed; Kotb, Ahmed Abdel hamed; Amira, Mostafa Samy; Al Khateeb, Ebrahem Abdullah; Alshehri, Layla Abdulrahman; Aldoomi, Raed Ali Bani; Al Dafar, Awatef Abdulaziz; Alarfaj, Maher Mohammed; Alholiby, Mossab Saud; Mahgoub, Yassir Mohammed; Boreqqah, Abeer Abdulmohsen; Ali, Asma Margeni; Al-Sababha, Khairi Mahmoud; Al Youssef, Ibrahim Youssef; Abouzaid, Enam Mohammed; Ali, Hasnaa Hamdy; Batal, Ahmed Elsayed Mohamed; Alhassan, Omer Musa; Ibrahim Atta, Ibrahim; Alqatam, Mohammed Ahmed; Al-Aqtash, Ala'a Yahya; Alshoura, Mohammad Ahmad; Selim, Hossam Saad; Abdelrahman, Mohmed Abdelmoneim; Bahrawi, Atef Abdalla; Alarfaj, Abdulhamid Abdullah; Aladsani, Abdullah Mohammed; Almaiah, Mohammed Amin; Ata, Sobhi Noureldin; Hamad, Nahid Hassan; Hamad, Awatif Mahmoud; Elsherif, Khaled Hassan; Ahmed, Mohammed Keshar; El-Zeki, Ahmed Abdelfattah; Elrefee, Enas Mahmoud; Ali, Abeer Farouk; Melhem, Tareq Yousef; Alsaeed, Maha Saad; Hegazy, Ahmed Zakaria; Alhuwaiji, Khalel Ibrahim; Ahmed, Hatem Tawfik; Alboray, Hanem Mostafa; Hassan, Marwa Mohamed; Alnoer, Lubna Noaman; Elmorsy, Ghada Nasr Huisen; El Koshiry, Amr Mohamed – Studies in Continuing Education, 2021
This piece theorises the limitations of transitioning reflection from individualistic to participatory practice. It addresses the question: what are the challenges of introducing crowd-reflecting into Arab academia? To answer this question, 140 Arabs from an academic organisation were invited to crowd-reflect, online, on their institution, using a…
Descriptors: Arabs, Barriers, Cultural Influences, Reflection
Schneider, Kimberly; Kuperman, Aubrey; Watts, Andre; Barulich, Danae; Campbell, Tyler – Journal of the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, 2021
Evaluation must occur at the university level to understand the full impact of undergraduate research (UR). UR assessment is often only completed at the individual program level because of limited technology, time, and/or resources. At our large research institution, we have been documenting a wide variety of research experiences annually since…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Student Research, Institutional Research, Student Participation
Letzring, Timothy D. – New Directions for Institutional Research, 2017
Data continues to grow in both importance and quantity within colleges and universities. IR professionals need to know ways data can create potential legal issues in order to be proactive rather than reactive to these situations.
Descriptors: Information Security, Colleges, Universities, Institutional Research
