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Download full textMike Urmeneta – Association for Institutional Research, 2023
This article explores the potential impact of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning on higher education. It overviews current generative AI capabilities and argues for ethical frameworks to address issues such as bias. The article advocates for a multidisciplinary governance approach involving institutional stakeholders by examining…
Descriptors: Artificial Intelligence, Higher Education, Ethics, Bias
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Direct linkFelix, Eric R.; Ceballos, Diego A.; Salazar, Rogelio; Vedar, Erin Nicole R.; Perez, Elizabeth Jimenez – New Directions for Institutional Research, 2021
As improving equity becomes prioritized in higher education, Offices of Institutional Research (OIRs) find themselves in a central position to identify and address educational inequities faced by racially minoritized students. However, their potential to serve as a catalyst for organizational change has yet to be fulfilled. In this study, we…
Descriptors: Institutional Research, Equal Education, Higher Education, Minority Group Students
Atchison, Eric S. – New Directions for Institutional Research, 2020
This article outlines the impacts of COVID-19 on higher education and provides a contextual assessment of how higher education systems can provide support to institutions and stakeholders through a formulated planning process which helps identify, plan, and achieve strategic goals in response to fluctuating priorities.
Descriptors: Higher Education, COVID-19, Pandemics, Capacity Building
Clavero, Sara; Galligan, Yvonne – Journal of Higher Education Policy and Management, 2020
This article explores research on gender and institutions for the purposes of informing analytical frameworks for research on institutional change with regard to gender equality in higher education. Drawing on feminist institutionalist studies that explore the relationship between gender, institutions and institutional continuity and change, the…
Descriptors: Sex Fairness, Organizational Change, Feminism, Higher Education
Breslin, James D.; Lawson-Harris, Tara; Hawkins, Beck; Elkins, Becki – New Directions for Institutional Research, 2020
The depths of the impact of COVID-19 on nearly every aspect of our personal and professional lives was becoming painfully clear in May and June of 2020. While institutions of higher education had implemented crisis/emergency plans in the immediate onset of the pandemic, and largely extended those efforts into summer terms, the fall 2020 term…
Descriptors: Data Use, Decision Making, COVID-19, Pandemics
Shapiro, Douglas T.; Tang, Zun – New Directions for Institutional Research, 2019
We provide an overview of existing and emerging ways that institutional researchers can leverage National Student Clearinghouse data to expand a culture of data-driven decision-making across campus, with a focus on examples from the field.
Descriptors: Clearinghouses, Educational Improvement, Decision Making, Data Analysis
Hoang, Cuong Huu; Dang, Trang Thi Doan – Minerva: A Review of Science, Learning and Policy, 2022
Given the importance of research communities and research mentoring activities in developing research skills, universities around the world have paid special attention to improving these two dimensions. However, developing research communities and research mentoring culture in Vietnamese universities largely remain at a nascent stage because these…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Research Skills, Communities of Practice, Mentors
Larkan-Skinner, Kara; Shedd, Jessica M. – New Directions for Institutional Research, 2020
As institutions seek to shift into more advanced analytics and data-based decision-support, many institutional research offices face the challenge of meeting the office's current demands while taking on more intricate and specialized work to support decision-making. Given the great need organizations have for information that supports real-time…
Descriptors: Data, Data Analysis, Prediction, Data Use
The Analytics Revolution in Higher Education: Big Data, Organizational Learning, and Student Success
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
O'Connell, Catherine – Studies in Higher Education, 2019
This article examines responses to a new impact indicator introduced to the UK Research Excellence Framework (REF). While analysts have pointed to opportunities in impact policy for educational research as a field, the requirement to demonstrate impact beyond the academy poses challenges for research relating to higher education. The study…
Descriptors: Educational Research, Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Instructional Effectiveness
Umbricht, Mark; Stange, Kevin – Association for Institutional Research, 2019
Every term, institutions of higher education must make decisions about the class size for each class they offer, which can have implications for student outcomes, satisfaction, and cost. These decisions must be made within the current higher education landscape of tightening budgets and calls for increased productivity. Beyond institution decision…
Descriptors: Class Size, Higher Education, Student Experience, College Students
Al Lily, Abdulrahman Essa; Alhazmi, Ahmed Ali; Alsubaie, Merfat Ayesh; Alzahrani, Saleh; Bukhamseen, Amani Mohammed; Aldoughan, Eman Abdulaziz; Almudhafar, Fuad Ahmed; Maher, Eman Ahmed; Al-Abdullatif, Ahlam Mohammed; Kotb, Ahmed Abdel hamed; Amira, Mostafa Samy; Al Khateeb, Ebrahem Abdullah; Alshehri, Layla Abdulrahman; Aldoomi, Raed Ali Bani; Al Dafar, Awatef Abdulaziz; Alarfaj, Maher Mohammed; Alholiby, Mossab Saud; Mahgoub, Yassir Mohammed; Boreqqah, Abeer Abdulmohsen; Ali, Asma Margeni; Al-Sababha, Khairi Mahmoud; Al Youssef, Ibrahim Youssef; Abouzaid, Enam Mohammed; Ali, Hasnaa Hamdy; Batal, Ahmed Elsayed Mohamed; Alhassan, Omer Musa; Ibrahim Atta, Ibrahim; Alqatam, Mohammed Ahmed; Al-Aqtash, Ala'a Yahya; Alshoura, Mohammad Ahmad; Selim, Hossam Saad; Abdelrahman, Mohmed Abdelmoneim; Bahrawi, Atef Abdalla; Alarfaj, Abdulhamid Abdullah; Aladsani, Abdullah Mohammed; Almaiah, Mohammed Amin; Ata, Sobhi Noureldin; Hamad, Nahid Hassan; Hamad, Awatif Mahmoud; Elsherif, Khaled Hassan; Ahmed, Mohammed Keshar; El-Zeki, Ahmed Abdelfattah; Elrefee, Enas Mahmoud; Ali, Abeer Farouk; Melhem, Tareq Yousef; Alsaeed, Maha Saad; Hegazy, Ahmed Zakaria; Alhuwaiji, Khalel Ibrahim; Ahmed, Hatem Tawfik; Alboray, Hanem Mostafa; Hassan, Marwa Mohamed; Alnoer, Lubna Noaman; Elmorsy, Ghada Nasr Huisen; El Koshiry, Amr Mohamed – Studies in Continuing Education, 2021
This piece theorises the limitations of transitioning reflection from individualistic to participatory practice. It addresses the question: what are the challenges of introducing crowd-reflecting into Arab academia? To answer this question, 140 Arabs from an academic organisation were invited to crowd-reflect, online, on their institution, using a…
Descriptors: Arabs, Barriers, Cultural Influences, Reflection
Perez-Felkner, Lara – New Directions for Institutional Research, 2018
This chapter synthesizes research on women in STEM undergraduate fields and aims to sharpen our empirical and theoretical frameworks for future higher education research. Institutional research implications are discussed here and throughout the volume.
Descriptors: Higher Education, Educational Research, Females, STEM Education
Fingerson, Laura; Troutman, David R. – New Directions for Institutional Research, 2019
This chapter addresses how IR/IE both responds to and leads in our institutions and across higher education in measuring and improving student success. We introduce a new student success measurement framework in the context of internal and external facing needs, we define the importance of actionable information to inform decision-making, and we…
Descriptors: Institutional Research, Organizational Effectiveness, Higher Education, Academic Achievement
Cubarrubia, Archie; Le, Michael – New Directions for Institutional Research, 2019
In this chapter, we explore the contexts within which institutional researchers must try to ensure the ethical use of data. We also identify challenges institutional research professionals can face when navigating college culture while trying to ensure the ethical use of data. Finally, we identify potential solutions for improving institutional…
Descriptors: Institutional Research, Educational Research, Ethics, Data Use
