Introduction Even if offices of institutional effectiveness and planning have the resources and the portfolio of institutional research to contribute to scientific research in education, the resources and research must be organized by structures that guide the agenda, inform funding decisions, and monitor the advancement of the work (Design PrincipleContinue Reading
Institutional Effectiveness Today One is not trained to be an institutional researcher, but rather becomes an institutional researcher. The Wikipedia page for Institutional Research suggests, in the section labeled, “Becoming an Institutional Researcher,” that “[t]here is no single academic degree that qualifies one to be an institutional researcher….”[1] Although mostContinue Reading
Facts and Myths Few tasks are more like the torture of Sisyphus than institutional reporting in higher education: in its repetitious cycle, the forms annually emptied, the blank cells filled routinely, year after year, submission by submission. In response to what many regard as the irredeemable chore of external submissions,Continue Reading
