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Download full textTorii, Tomoko; Okada, Yuji – Higher Education Forum, 2017
This article reports the results of a nationwide questionnaire survey of 1,104 Japanese higher education institutions conducted in late 2015 and early 2016. Its goal was to investigate the current status and issues related to the utilization and disclosure of educational information. A total of 248 institutions responded to the survey. Based on…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Information Dissemination, Information Utilization
Peer reviewedTetlow, William L. – New Directions for Institutional Research, 1983
The effective communication of desired information between the generator and the user requires one to accommodate variances in decision-making style, behavior, and context. The premise that decision making in organizations follows the classic rational model is discussed. (Author/MLW)
Descriptors: College Administration, Data Collection, Decision Making, Higher Education
Willett, Lynn H. – 1975
With the increase in institutional research activity and the number of reports resulting therefrom, there is a growing need for better assessments of the impact of such reports. This paper proposes a framework for analysis of institutional research report impact. The three major dimensions identified are: (1) time (short-term, intermediate, and…
Descriptors: Conceptual Schemes, Educational Research, Evaluation, Information Dissemination
Peer reviewedHinkle, 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
Alfred, Richard L. – 1976
This paper presents two models, one for organizing institutional research and research data, and the other for applying research findings to the decision-making process. The model for organizing research consists of four subsystems: goal-setting, program development, cost-effectiveness, and program review. Each subsystem has a distinctive…
Descriptors: College Administration, Community Colleges, Decision Making, Information Utilization
Lenning, Oscar T. – 1978
In order to sort out a comprehensible total picture regarding needs assessment and to develop a useful conceptual framework for this area, a comprehensive review of the needs assessment literature pertinent to the concerns of postsecondary education was conducted. The review found that needs assessment is a viable tool for input to planning, but…
Descriptors: College Planning, Decision Making, Educational Needs, Educational Objectives
St. John, Edward P. – 1979
An institutional management systems development study examined the Management Information Systems (MIS) needs of 23 public institutions of higher education in Missouri. The result was a model framework for other institutions to develop MIS appropriate to their needs. One of five distinct structural development phases could be related to all…
Descriptors: Computer Oriented Programs, Data Processing, Educational Planning, Information Processing
California Community Colleges, Sacramento. Office of the Chancellor. – 1980
Exemplary adaptations of the California Community Colleges' Student Accountability Model (SAM) are presented, based upon interviews with administrators at 37 colleges or districts known to have implemented SAM practices. After a description of SAM (a set of procedures for the follow-up of occupational students), the report examines the criteria by…
Descriptors: Accountability, Classification, Community Colleges, Computer Oriented Programs
Coleman, D. R.; Bolte, J. R. – 1980
A planning and evaluation model for management information systems (MIS) at the institutional or system level in higher education is presented. The procedure provides an analytical approach for assessing the effectiveness of an existing information system utilizing a variation of the Business Systems Planning methodology developed by the IBM…
Descriptors: Administrator Role, College Administration, Data Processing, Decision Making
Cope, Robert G., Ed. – 1975
These proceedings include 83 papers and 24 abstracts of papers contributed at the AIR's Annual Forum. Practitioners at two- and four-year colleges and universities, public and private (teachers, department chairmen, and administrators) as well as theoreticians are addressed. Papers fall into 13 categories: (1) presidential address and theme…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Administrator Evaluation, Affirmative Action, College Admission
