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Brassington, Laura, Ed. – Higher Education Policy Institute, 2022
On the back of Research Excellence Framework (REF) 2021, this collection brings together a wide range of authors to consider what has worked well in evaluation of UK research, what could have worked better and where the UK's higher education system should go from here. Chapters in the volume include: (1) The REF: A hydra-headed beast or an…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Research, Evaluation Research, Higher Education
Gagliardi, Jonathan S., Ed.; Parnell, Amelia, Ed.; Carpenter-Hubin, Julia, Ed. – Stylus Publishing LLC, 2018
In this era of "Big Data," institutions of higher education are challenged to make the most of the information they have to improve student learning outcomes, close equity gaps, keep costs down, and address the economic needs of the communities they serve at the local, regional, and national levels. This book helps readers understand and…
Descriptors: Educational Research, Data Collection, Data Analysis, Higher Education
Fam, Dena, Ed.; Neuhauser, Linda, Ed.; Gibbs, Paul, Ed. – Springer, 2018
This exciting new state-of-the art book reviews, explores and advocates ways in which collaborative research endeavours can, through a transdisciplinary lens, enhance student, academic and social experiences. Drawing from a wide range of knowledges, contexts, geographical locations and internationally renowned expertise, the book provides a unique…
Descriptors: Interdisciplinary Approach, Educational Research, Cooperative Learning, Theory Practice Relationship
Hensel, Nancy, Ed. – Online Submission, 2012
"Characteristics of Excellence in Undergraduate Research" ("COEUR") is based on the collective experience, over many years, of Council on Undergraduate Research members who have engaged undergraduate students in research, developed undergraduate research programs, mentored new faculty to include undergraduate research in their…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Student Research, Educational Quality, Research Projects
Bensimon, Estela Mara, Ed.; Malcom, Lindsey, Ed. – Stylus Publishing, LLC, 2012
How can it be that 50 years after the passage of the Civil Rights Act, our institutions of higher education have still not found ways of reducing the higher education gaps for racial and ethnic groups? That is the question that informs and animates the Equity Scorecard model of organizational change. It shifts institutions' focus from what…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Race, Civil Rights, Institutional Research
Tull, Ashley, Ed.; Kuk, Linda, Ed. – Stylus Publishing, LLC, 2012
Student affairs organizations are at a crossroads. They face expanding enrollments; a concomitant increase need for often more complex services; changing demographics; a growing cohort of non-traditional and first-generation students; shifting and more demanding responsibilities; and increased expectations from the greater campus community,…
Descriptors: Student Personnel Services, Change, Role, Responsibility
Metcalfe, Amy – Information Science Publishing, 2006
Rather than focusing on functional issues relating to implementation of knowledge management (KM) techniques, this book addresses the social aspects of KM. Using various social science perspectives, the volume provides critical analyses of KM in higher education, with an emphasis on unintended consequences and future implications. Fifteen chapters…
Descriptors: Knowledge Management, Higher Education, Institutional Research, Educational Administration
Swing, Randy L., Ed. – National Resource Center for The First-Year Experience and Students in Transition, 2004
This second volume of "Proving and Improving" collects essays from the First-Year Assessment Listserv, which is hosted by the Policy Center on the First Year of College and the National Resource Center. Like the first volume, this one brings together the nation's leading experts and practitioners of assessment in the first college year.…
Descriptors: College Freshmen, Qualitative Research, Early Intervention, Institutional Research
Martinez, Magdalena, Ed.; Pasque, Penny A., Ed.; Bowman, Nick, Ed.; Chambers, Tony, Ed. – National Forum on Higher Education for the Public Good (NJ1), 2005
The National Forum on Higher Education for the Public Good, along with the American Association for Higher Education (AAHE), American College Personnel Association (ACPA), American Educational Research Association (AERA), Association for Institutional Research (AIR), and Association for the Study of Higher Education (ASHE), have committed…
Descriptors: Graduate Students, Higher Education, Institutional Research, Educational Research