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Improving Institutional Evaluation Methods: Comparing Three Evaluations Using PSM, Exact and Coarsened Exact Matching
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Blankenberger, Bob; Gehlhausen Anderson, Sophia; Lichtenberger, Eric – Research in Higher Education, 2021
Policymakers and institutional leaders in higher education too often make decisions based on descriptive data analyses or even anecdote when better analysis options could produce more nuanced and more valuable results. Employing the setting of higher education program evaluation at a midwestern regional public university, for this study we…
Descriptors: Evaluation Methods, Higher Education, Program Evaluation, Public Colleges
Can College Outreach Programs Improve College Readiness? The Case of the College Bound, St. Louis Program
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Le, Vi-Nhuan; Mariano, Louis T.; Faxon-Mills, Susannah – Research in Higher Education, 2016
In the past decade, there has been a proliferation of community- and school-based college readiness programs designed to increase the participation of students who have traditionally been underrepresented in higher education. However, few of these college readiness programs have been empirically evaluated. This study examines the impact of one…
Descriptors: College Readiness, Developmental Studies Programs, Outreach Programs, College Programs
Political Processes in an Academic Audit: Linking Evaluative Information to Programmatic Decisions.
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Cochran, Thomas R.; Hengstler, Dennis D. – Research in Higher Education, 1984
The political processes involved in an academic program evaluation are discussed. Data gathered from a program evaluation conducted at a small, public, liberal arts university in the Southeast were used in examining the explanatory power of the various theories and models. (Author/MLW)
Descriptors: College Administration, College Programs, Evaluation Methods, Higher Education
How Valid are Scholars' Departmental Rating Models for Assessing the Quality of Graduate Programs?
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Hensley, Oliver D. – Research in Higher Education, 1980
Using aggregated data from each of four classical rankings of graduate programs in U.S. universities, it was found that the rankings of institutions in separate studies correlate significantly with each other and the results from the SDR model correlate significantly with the objective measures of academic honors, basic research, and research and…
Descriptors: College Programs, Departments, Educational Quality, Graduate Study