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Francis, J. Bruce – New Directions for Institutional Advancement, 1979
The survey holds an increasingly important place in institutional advancement. As college and university decision makers turn more and more to their constituencies for support and assistance, a competent information-gathering and processing network becomes crucial. Heuristic v algorithmic designs, Attitude Information System, and the microcomputer…
Descriptors: Computer Science, Data Analysis, Data Collection, Data Processing
Croninger, Robert G.; Douglas, Karen M. – New Directions for Institutional Research, 2005
Many do not consider the effect that missing data have on their survey results nor do they know how to handle missing data. This chapter offers strategies for handling item-missing data and provides a practical example of how these strategies may affect results. The chapter concludes with recommendations for preventing and dealing with missing…
Descriptors: Institutional Research, Research Methodology, Surveys, Error of Measurement
Miller, Kathryn – ACCU Occasional Papers on Catholic Higher Education, 1995
As part of a process of discerning the future direction and mission of the Sisters of Saint Joseph College Consortium (SSJCC), a year-long study of 11 institutions founded and run by the Sisters of Saint Joseph was undertaken. Sisters of Saint Joseph (SSJ) is a Roman Catholic women's religious congregation founded in 1836 which operates a…
Descriptors: Catholic Schools, Consortia, Educational History, Higher Education
Williford, A. Michael; Moden, Gary O. – 1989
A centralized, university-wide approach to collecting alumni information was established. The centralized approach provided information with greater potential for utilization, permitted comparisons among university units, and generated information on trends in alumni outcomes from year to year. All alumni in a given class are surveyed in order to…
Descriptors: Alumni, Attitudes, College Planning, College Programs
Harris, Abigail M. – 1976
Educational Testing Service (ETS) research that is relevant to the concerns of women and the educational process can be categorized into four areas: (1) research primarily about women; (2) research focusing on sex differences or similarities; (3) research that reports, but does not focus on sex differences; and (4) research identifying methods of…
Descriptors: Annotated Bibliographies, Educational Research, Females, Institutional Research
Heinich, Robert; Molenda, Michael H. – 1977
This is the first in an annual series of studies on the circulation of media and the operation of educational media centers in United States Public Schools. The plan is to gather three types of data in each annual survey: (1) baseline data gathered each year, (2) an in-depth probe of a particular part of media programs, and (3) a compilation of…
Descriptors: Annual Reports, Educational Media, Films, Information Utilization
McCulley, P. Michael – 1978
Data on freshmen at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill are presented and compared to data of comparable institutions as part of the research of the Cooperative Institutional Research Program (CIRP). The study deals with the class of 1980 (enrolled, fall 1976) and the class of 1981 (enrolled, fall 1977). The two classes of entering…
Descriptors: College Freshmen, Educational Status Comparison, Higher Education, Institutional Research
Brown, Charles I., Ed. – 1970
One of the youngest of the professions belonging to higher education is institutional research. But younger still has been the incursion of institutional research onto the campuses of predominantly black institutions. This group of papers attempts to lend a truer perspective to the burgeoning institutional research function at predominantly black…
Descriptors: Black Colleges, College Freshmen, Higher Education, Individual Characteristics
Wilkinson, Larry; And Others – 1976
This report presents the findings of a research study, conducted by the College of the Mainland (COM) as a subcontractor for Project FOLLOW-UP, designed to test the accuracy of random sampling and to measure non-response bias in mail surveys. In 1975, a computer-generated random sample of 500 students was drawn from a population of 1,256 students…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Followup Studies, Institutional Research, Questionnaires
Cerritos Coll., Norwalk, CA. – 1974
The Senior Citizen Questionnaire was mailed to 779 senior citizens who were members of the Cerritos College Golden Key Club. One hundred sixty-eight or 21.6 percent returned a completed questionnaire. Some of the findings presented were: (1) concerning subject matter areas of importance, "hobby and recreational subjects" was considered…
Descriptors: College Role, Community Colleges, Community Services, Institutional Research
Kegan, Daniel L. – Evaluation Quarterly, 1978
A set of quality of student life indicators was developed to provide a low cost, institutional research instrument capable of longitudinal, continuous broad-bandwidth monitoring, and data comparisons with traditional colleges. The instrument is multidimensional without dominant evaluative, halo, or response-effect factors. The test items and…
Descriptors: College Students, Experimental Colleges, Higher Education, Institutional Research
Klepper, William M.; And Others – New Directions for Higher Education, 1987
Information about students' characteristics and their perceptions of their educational experience allow institutions to predict their risk of attrition. Trenton State College's effective use of the American Council on Education Cooperative Institutional Research Program for planning and assessment is described. (MLW)
Descriptors: College Administration, College Students, Consortia, Cooperative Programs

Litwin, James L. – New Directions for Institutional Research, 1985
Racial and sexual stereotyping and harassment persist on today's campus, and second generation reforms and changes must be made. Public research on racism and sexism seems to have been done mostly by academic and not by institutional researchers. Some reasons for this are discussed. (MLW)
Descriptors: Campuses, Change, Comparative Analysis, Higher Education
Glyer-Culver, Betty – Online Submission, 2004
Beginning in the 2000-01 Academic Year, the Los Rios Community College District Office of Institutional Research (IR) began a collaboration with Occupational and Area Deans as well as Faculty from each of the four Los Rios Colleges located in Sacramento, CA (American River College, Cosumnes River College, Folsom Lake College and Sacramento City…
Descriptors: Institutional Research, Community Colleges, Two Year College Students, Surveys
Malaney, Gary D. – 1997
This study examined the structure and function of student affairs research offices (SAROs) at American colleges and universities. A total of 35 SAROs completed questionnaires during 1995 in regard to their organization and its activities. Overall, the study found only a small number of SAROs in American colleges and universities, mainly at public…
Descriptors: Budgeting, Higher Education, Institutional Research, National Surveys