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Challenges in Developing Data Collection Systems in a Rapidly Evolving Higher Education Environment
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Borden, Victor M. H.; Calderon, Angel; Fourie, Neels; Lepori, Benedetto; Bonaccorsi, Andrea – New Directions for Institutional Research, 2013
Efforts to develop common higher education data standards are expanding both within and across countries. The institutional research (IR) community plays a critical role in assuring that these efforts capture the diverse manifestations of the postsecondary and tertiary education systems and promote responsible comparisons. This chapter provides…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Institutional Research, Data Collection, School Statistics
Sharing Responsibility for Student Learning
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Borden, Victor M. H.; Pike, Gary R. – New Directions for Institutional Research, 2008
The past 25 years have witnessed an ebb and flow of the accountability movement in the United States as national interest in and concern about the quality and effectiveness of higher education have moved in and out of the forefront of public consciousness. Today Democrats and Republicans alike are critical of higher education and calling for…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Institutional Research, Accountability, Researchers
Using Alumni Research to Align Program Improvement with Institutional Accountability
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Borden, Victor M. H. – New Directions for Institutional Research, 2005
This chapter uses a case study to develop a set of contexts and conditions for improving the alignment of purposes of alumni survey research within and across higher education institutions. (Contains 2 tables.)
Descriptors: Program Effectiveness, Program Improvement, Alumni, Institutional Research