THIS PROPOSAL FOR THE ESTABLISHMENT OF AN OFFICE OF INSTITUTIONAL RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT AT PASADENA CITY COLLEGE WAS BASED ON DATA COLLECTED FROM (1) A REVIEW OF RELEVANT LITERATURE, (2) CONSULTATION WITH RESEARCH PERSONNEL AT OTHER INSTITUTIONS, (3) INTERVIEWS WITH LOCAL PERSONNEL, AND (4) PARTICIPATION IN CONFERENCES OF RESEARCH WORKERS.…

The purpose of this paper is to examine the need for various classes and types of research in local school districts in collaboration with external researchers. It defines research and then argues the need to support basic research as well as applied research in schools. It provides a few definitions of various types and classes of research to…

Conferees heard five papers designed to emphasize some contemporary problems of higher education. The keynote address stresses the role of the institutional researcher, who must not only be capable in his discipline of research, but also be concerned that his work is relevant to institutional needs and problems. He must place the results in…

The objectives of the institute were (1) to encourage excellence in education research, both institutional (self-study) and action (practice), (2) to have the staff and trainees evaluate the program, and (3) to distribute its findings to junior colleges interested in improving their own research. A followup of the trainees and their research was a…

This report describes a 3-week research training institute supported by USOE funds, which was held at the University of California at Los Angeles, July 1967. It was designed to increase the competence of junior college research directors and staff. The method of recruiting and selecting the trainees is explained. Thirty-eight trainees from 12…

This report describes two 4-week research training institutes (July 1966), supported by USOE funds, and designed to increase the competence of junior college research directors and staff. Organized by the California Junior College Association (and the University of California Extension Division), the institutes were held concurrently at the…

The resource agent role by the institutional researcher is not unique, but the structuring of this role within the framework of a planning management model is rather uncommon. This document attempts to: (1) present a conceptualization of a particular role for institutional researchers; (2) to define the planning management model within which the…

In 1964, the Division of Instructional Services established a longitudinal and developmental research project entitled "Biography of a Class." The purpose of the project is to describe, in detail, characteristics of the students attending the State University of New York at Buffalo, to provide information about students to faculty, administration,…

Concordia Senior College is part of a larger system of higher education developed by the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod for the training of men and women for professions in the church. This institutional profile was prepared for a review by the North Central Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools in consideration of renewal of…

This booklet contains the proceedings of the first annual meeting of the North Carolina Association for Institutional Research (NCAIR). Contents include an address by the president of NCAIR concerning "Changing Demands on the Institutional Research Practitioner". He points out that in the relatively short life span of Institutional Research,…

This annotated bibliography of institutional research is divided into the following sections: (1) Goals and Long-Range Planning; (2) Administration and Faculty; (3) Curriculum and Instruction; (4) Space Utilization and Scheduling; (5) Student Characteristics; (6) Recruitment and Admission; (7) Prediction and Academic Performance; (8) Perception of…

This study, by Eastern Washington State College, is an attempt to describe the "ideal" organizational structure of a community college in either a single- or multi-college district. It includes organizational charts, position descriptions, and decision-making responsibilities. State and federal law, existing collegiate and corporate…

Activities undertaken by the Office of Institutional Research at Northern Michigan University during the 1968-1969 fiscal year are summarized in this report. Projects that were completed include a faculty salary survey, a comparison of academic performance and persistence in college between low-achieving students who had taken an early entry…

In order to determine the number of credit hours being produced in various subject fields, questionnaires were sent to the institutions of higher education in the state of Colorado. This report presents tabular data on all resident classes taught at publicly controlled institutions, and on some taught at privately controlled institutions. The data…

As a first step in "improving and building up" the graduate program at the Wisconsin State University at Stevens Point, a study of graduate students was initiated in 1967. It examined the interrelationships of their graduate majors, undergraduate majors and colleges, high school deciles and class size, age, sex, level taught, geographic…