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Wentz, Meridith; Brown, Amanda; Sweat, Jeff – Mid-Western Educational Researcher, 2018
As tuition rates for higher education rise, universities are under increased pressure from internal and external stakeholders to document outcomes such as graduation rates. To do so, higher education institutions must use data effectively. This paper examines the University of Wisconsin--Stout's (UW-Stout) strategies for data use in the…
Descriptors: Data, Information Utilization, Organizational Change, Accountability
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
Marwan Al-Raeei; Chadi Azmeh – SAGE Open, 2024
The release of scientific research has substantial consequences for both the research and the institution in which it was carried out. The selection of publishing methods for scientific articles, such as journal type, quartile, indexed databases, and publishing models, plays a crucial role. Various publishing models exist, including platinum,…
Descriptors: Institutional Research, College Outcomes Assessment, Influence of Technology, Access to Information
Alyse Gray Parker – ProQuest LLC, 2021
The decade of the 1960s was rife with social and political change across the United States. The consequences of the changing times were often seen on college campuses and influenced campus culture, especially for Black students. Literature has shown that campus culture, and relatedly organizational culture, comprise of many aspects such as the…
Descriptors: School Culture, Organizational Culture, Institutional Research, Historical Interpretation
Zheng, Yongyan; Guo, Xiaoyan – Language Policy, 2019
This paper reports on a qualitative inquiry into Chinese multilingual scholars' language practices in academic publishing as the Chinese government develops higher education competitiveness and expands multilingual foreign language education. Fifteen Chinese multilingual scholars from five non-English language divisions were interviewed.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Multilingualism, Scholarship, Writing for Publication
Gerald Ellsworth Hunter – ProQuest LLC, 2021
The purpose of this descriptive case study was to examine the characteristics of organizational climate at Mid-Eastern Public University. This study describes a wide variety of organizational climate data measured by the Organizational Climate Questionnaire (OCQ) developed by Furnham and Goodstein (1997). Data-driven findings describe the overall…
Descriptors: College Environment, Public Colleges, Universities, Case Studies
Baxter, Kaylan S. – Office of Community College Research and Leadership, 2020
In this brief, Kaylan Baxter talks about the potentially transformative role of two connected units less commonly associated with racial justice: institutional research (IR) and institutional effectiveness (IE). Institutional research (IR) consists of a wide-ranging set of tasks conducted in support of the decision-making processes of various…
Descriptors: Institutional Research, Organizational Effectiveness, Organizational Learning, Race
Kretz, Andrew – RP Group, 2020
In 2019, the Research and Planning Group for California Community Colleges (RP Group) conducted a survey of institutional research, planning, and effectiveness (IRPE) offices in the California Community College system. The purpose of this survey was to: (1) Identify key research and planning priorities and activities of the IRPE offices; (2)…
Descriptors: Institutional Research, Community Colleges, Institutional Evaluation, Educational Planning
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
Anderson, Rebekah; Rip, Nichole – Association for Institutional Research, 2019
The main purpose of institutional research (IR) is to provide objective, systematic, and thorough data that support an institution's enrollment goals, planning, policy formation, and decision making. Traditionally, institutions gathered data on their activities, students and staff, programs, management, and operations. University staff then…
Descriptors: Institutional Research, Data Use, Decision Making, Private Colleges
Fuller, Matthew – New Directions for Institutional Research, 2017
After examining typical legal contexts for IR practice, this chapter offers the Practices, Policies, and Legal Boundaries (PPLB) framework for using laws as guidelines for policy and practice.
Descriptors: Institutional Research, Legal Problems, Laws, Educational Policy
Nguyen, Huong Thi Lan; Van Gramberg, Bernadine – Studies in Higher Education, 2018
Despite being accepted as a key function in research management, research planning seems to be a neglected practice in some higher education institutions, particularly in economically disadvantaged countries such as Vietnam. This paper addresses a research gap in this area by examining (1) the practices of research planning at four leading…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Research Design, Strategic Planning, Educational Research
Kelli A. Bird; Benjamin L. Castleman; Zachary Mabel; Yifeng Song – Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown University, 2021
Colleges have increasingly turned to predictive analytics to target at-risk students for additional support. Most of the predictive analytic applications in higher education are proprietary, with private companies offering little transparency about their underlying models. We address this lack of transparency by systematically comparing two…
Descriptors: At Risk Students, Higher Education, Predictive Measurement, Models
Himes, Rachel; Henningsen, Caitlin F. – Journal of Museum Education, 2020
As museums strive to become more welcoming and accessible, house museums occupy complex positions. The Frick Collection's scale is more intimate than that of many art museums; the general stability of the installation renders the collection more familiar, and the taste on display is personal and idiosyncratic rather than authoritative. As…
Descriptors: Art History, History Instruction, Arts Centers, Teaching Methods