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Papadimitriou, Maria; Johnes, Jill – Studies in Higher Education, 2019
This paper focuses on the effect of merger on university efficiency. In a first stage analysis, efficiency scores of English universities are derived for a 17-year period using the frontier estimation method data envelopment analysis. A second stage analysis explores the effect of merger and other factors on efficiency. We find that mean…
Descriptors: Organizational Change, Universities, Efficiency, Educational Policy
Lake, Robin; Jochim, Ashley; Hill, Paul; Tuchman, Sivan – Center on Reinventing Public Education, 2019
The current debate about charter schools' effects on school district finances hinges on enrollment loss. Critics claim that the surge in charter enrollment in California since 2000 has driven enrollment loss statewide--cutting districts' income more than their costs, especially in cities where many students attend charter schools. State officials…
Descriptors: Charter Schools, School Districts, Enrollment, Elementary Secondary Education
American Association of Collegiate Registrars and Admissions Officers (AACRAO), 2020
The January 2020 60-Second Survey was designed to serve two purposes: (1) to benchmark institutional-level use of enrollment management and strategic enrollment management (SEM) plans; and (2) gather individual interest in enrollment management research (Appendix A). The survey was open to all American Association of Collegiate Registrars and…
Descriptors: Enrollment Management, Enrollment Projections, Enrollment Trends, Strategic Planning
Molina, Julian – Evidence & Policy: A Journal of Research, Debate and Practice, 2019
This article describes how statistics are scrutinised as evidence. It focuses on the uses of a labour market statistic during House of Commons select committee evidence sessions. The statistic in question was '55.5% of economically active black men, aged 16-24, are unemployed'. The article describes how this individual piece of evidence was…
Descriptors: Statistical Data, Data Use, Labor Market, Unemployment
Sundt, Melora A.; Cole, Darnell; Wheaton, Marissiko – New Directions for Student Services, 2017
This chapter is about using campus diversity data to inform student affairs work.
Descriptors: Statistical Data, Information Utilization, Student Diversity, Student Personnel Services
Bradley, John – International Journal for Educational Integrity, 2018
In 2013 this journal published the paper 'Integrity in Higher Education Marketing: A typology of misleading data-based claims in the university prospectus.' It argued that UK universities were using data and statistics in a misleading way in their advertising and proposed a nine-part typology to describe such claims. The present paper describes…
Descriptors: Integrity, Marketing, Advertising, Standards
Glenn T. Colby – American Association of University Professors, 2025
This year's annual report begins with good news from the 2024-25 AAUP Faculty Compensation Survey: Wage growth for full-time faculty members in US higher education exceeded inflation for the second consecutive year, following three consecutive years of declining real (inflation-adjusted) salaries. However, despite the positive trend over the last…
Descriptors: Annual Reports, Higher Education, College Faculty, Teacher Salaries
Doran, Elizabeth; Li, Ann; Aikens, Nikki; Dang, Myley; Kopack Klein, Ashley; Reid, Natalie; Scott, Myah; Rakibullah, Sharika; Cannon, Judy; Harrington, Jeff; Larson, Addison; Bernstein, Sara; Tarullo, Louisa; Malone, Lizabeth – Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation, 2022
Head Start is a national program that helps young children from families with low incomes get ready to succeed in school. It does this by working to promote their early learning and health and their families' well-being. The Head Start Family and Child Experiences Survey (FACES) provides national information about Head Start programs and…
Descriptors: Social Services, Low Income Students, Federal Programs, Family Relationship
Schneider, W. Joel; Roman, Zachary – Journal of Psychoeducational Assessment, 2018
We used data simulations to test whether composites consisting of cohesive subtest scores are more accurate than composites consisting of divergent subtest scores. We demonstrate that when multivariate normality holds, divergent and cohesive scores are equally accurate. Furthermore, excluding divergent scores results in biased estimates of…
Descriptors: Statistical Data, Simulation, Testing, Scores
Ministry of Advanced Education and Skills Training, 2021
This report reflects student-level data submitted by 21 of British Columbia's (BC) public post-secondary institutions, including colleges, institutes and seven universities. The data include: student headcount totals by institution as well as student headcount by Aboriginal identity, age group, gender, and program area for the academic year…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Postsecondary Education, Enrollment, Enrollment Trends
Wagoner, Kasey; Flanagan, Daniel – Physics Teacher, 2018
The game of baseball provides an interesting laboratory for experimenting with mechanical phenomena (there are many good examples in "The Physics Teacher," available on Professor Alan Nathan's website, and discussed in "Physics of Baseball & Softball"). We have developed a lab, for an introductory-level physics course, that…
Descriptors: Physics, Science Instruction, Scientific Principles, Teaching Methods
Grey House Publishing, 2019
The "Complete Resource Guide for People with Disabilities" is an invaluable resource for all those committed to empowering individuals with disabilities. All those with a disability, from vision problems to physical disabilities to asthma, will find ways in this Directory to succeed at work, in school, and in their community. This…
Descriptors: Disabilities, Resources, Information Sources, Services
Doran, Elizabeth; Reid, Natalie; Bernstein, Sara; Nguyen, Tutrang; Dang, Myley; Li, Ann; Kopack Klein, Ashley; Rakibullah, Sharika; Scott, Myah; Cannon, Judy; Harrington, Jeff; Larson, Addison; Tarullo, Louisa; Malone, Lizabeth – Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation, 2022
Head Start is a national program that helps young children from families with low income get ready to succeed in school. It does this by working to promote their early learning and health and their families' well-being. The Head Start Family and Child Experiences Survey (FACES) provides national information about Head Start programs and…
Descriptors: Federal Programs, Low Income Students, Social Services, Children
Larson-Hall, Jenifer – Modern Language Journal, 2017
Graphics are often mistaken for a mere frill in the methodological arsenal of data analysis when in fact they can be one of the simplest and at the same time most powerful methods of communicating statistical information (Tufte, 2001). The first section of the article argues for the statistical necessity of graphs, echoing and amplifying similar…
Descriptors: Graphs, Periodicals, Applied Linguistics, Credibility
Paradice, David – Education, 2017
This paper describes the construction and descriptive analysis of a data set of United States school shooting events. Three hundred forty-three shooting events are included, spanning 175 years of United States educational history. All levels of US educational institution are included. Events are included when a firearm is discharged, regardless of…
Descriptors: Statistical Data, Data Analysis, Violence, Weapons