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Institutional Research: What Problems Are We Trying to Solve?
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Longden, Bernard; Yorke, Mantz – Perspectives: Policy and Practice in Higher Education, 2009
Institutional research in UK higher education is rarely consolidated into a central office function. This is in marked comparison to the position of IR in the USA where most universities accord it a high status which is absent from the UK context. The collection, analysis and interpretation of data in the USA appears, on the whole, more systematic…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Institutional Research, Foreign Countries, Intelligence
Institutional Research and the Student Learning Experience: Some Reflections on the Work of the Higher Education Academy
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Hammond, Nick – Perspectives: Policy and Practice in Higher Education, 2009
Institutional research (IR) has a variety of definitions. International societies, such as the US-based Association for Institutional Research (AIR), stress not so much the topics of research, but the outcomes: "improved understanding, planning, management, and operation of postsecondary educational institutions and agencies";…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Institutional Research, Student Evaluation, Classification
What Does Your ASE Membership Say about You?
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Lawrence, Liz – Education in Science, 2009
In this article, the author shares her view about her ASE membership and what it says about her. What she hopes her ASE membership says about her is that she is committed to her own professional development and the professional development of others; she values the opportunity to engage with the wider perspective, to take on responsibilities or…
Descriptors: Professional Development, Group Membership, Elementary School Science, Professional Associations
The Use and Abuse of Performance Indicators in UK Higher Education.
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Ball, Robert; Wilkinson, Rob – Higher Education, 1994
Problems in use of performance indicators to assess college and university outcomes in the United Kingdom (UK), particularly for comparison of diverse institutions, is discussed. It is proposed that the system adopt indicators for each institution consistent with its mission. The role of peer review in this approach is examined. (Author/MSE)
Descriptors: Case Studies, College Outcomes Assessment, Comparative Analysis, Evaluation Criteria
Assessment of Research Quality. AIR 1995 Annual Forum Paper.
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Patrick, William J.; Stanley, Elizabeth C. – 1995
The British experience of nationwide research quality assessments and new measures to improve accountability are described. Consequences for the higher education system and for individual institutions are examined. Three national assessments of the quality of research in the United Kingdom (U.K.) in 1986, 1989, and 1992 have provided a standard…
Descriptors: Accountability, Departments, Doctoral Programs, Educational Assessment
The University as an Open System. Proceedings of the Annual Forum of European Association for Institutional Research (5th, Maastricht, The Netherlands, August 17-19, 1983).
Belanger, Charles H., Ed. – 1983
The university as an open system is addressed in 13 papers and 12 abstracts of papers from the 1983 forum of the European Association for Institutional Research. Topics are as follows: program review, analysis of faculty outcomes and characteristics, manpower planning in Dutch universities, adult education in the United Kingdom, outside funding,…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Students, College Faculty, Comparative Education