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First met in Chicago, 1965
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Association for Institutional Research (AIR)
(founded in 1965) |
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| Set of definitions established to create agreed upon survey data (nobody collects) in response to varied and multiple definitions of data set requests to institutions. |
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Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System
Unit of analysis is the Institution
Sampling frame |
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National Postsecondary Student Aid Survey
Drawn sample to represent students at grad and
undergrad level regardless of financial aid award.
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Beginning Postsecondary Student Longitudinal Study
Cyclical drawing of "oversample" from NPSAS.
Unit of analysis is the student. |
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Baccalaureate and Beyond
Unit of analysis is the student. |
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| the primary Federal agency responsible for the collection, analysis and reporting of data related to education in the United States. |
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Home to the National Center for Education Studies.
Manages the Insitute of Educational Sciences created in 2002 out of the Education Science Reform Act. |
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Institute for Education Sciences.
Mission to provide rigorous evidence on which to ground education practice and policy; accomplished through work of four centers. |
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Evaluation
Research
Special Education
Statistics (this is where our data is collected) |
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Postsecondary Studies
Assessment
Early Childhood, International, and Crosscutting Studies
Elementary, Secondary and Libraries Studies |
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New Directions for Institutional Research
IR Journal for planners and administrators in all types of academic institutions with guidelines in such areas as resource coordination, information analysis, program evaluation, and institutional management. |
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| Four Faces of Institutional Research |
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To describe the institution
To analyze alternatives
To present the best case
To supply impartial evidence |
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Brumbaugh, 1960
Advanced IR's role... |
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| A management service function |
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Dressel, 1971
Advanced IR's role... |
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An autonomous institutional critic
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Tetlow, 1984
Advanced IR's role... |
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An institutional or an organizational
intelligence officer |
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Lindquist, 1981
Advanced IR's role... |
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A change agent and action researcher
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Firnberg and Lasher, 1983
Advanced IR's role... |
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An institutional advocate or political partisan
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Saupe, 1990
Advanced IR's role... |
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A management and decision support function
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Gill and Saunders, 1992; Terenzini, 1993
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| Ohio Association for Institutional Research and Planning |
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| Northeast Association for Institutional Research |
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| Data and Decisions Academy |
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a series of online, self-paced courses designed for busy community college institutional research (IR) professionals.
Initial funding for the Data and Decisions Academy is made possible by a $1.92 million grant from Lumina Foundation for Education. The Academy is hosted by the Association for Institutional Research in Tallahassee, Florida.
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