Higher Education Solutions
The demands on institutional research and assessment offices have never been greater, often requiring social scientific research expertise and data science skills to implement a program of research designed to measure what works in higher education.
Historia|Research supports the efforts of our clients to enhance the research and assessment capabilities of their institutions. We design our institutional effectiveness solutions to the specifications of key leadership and accreditation standards. We then work with research and assessment personnel to implement and maintain assessment activities locally.
State and national resources for educational statistics on postsecondary education make possible peer comparisons to define institutional strengths or to find trends indicative of weaknesses. The available data, however, have become so plentiful that planners are often at a loss to construct the proper quantitative window into opportunities and threats.
Historia|Research provides strategic planning services to identify the peers, data, and methods that empower committees to forecast enrollment trends, predict student success, and target support services, while mitigating the chances that the institution sets impossible goals or fails to communicate how progress to goals will be measured.
How many applicants did we have this year? What is the average SAT and ACT scores among incoming students? How many freshmen did we retain on our census date? These are not simply questions about facts or numbers, but questions about research design and measurement of student outcomes.
A lack of institutional research expertise substantially increases the likelihood that an institution reports misleading information about college performance to the public. HIstoria|Research specializes in building IR capacity internally in order to bring greater integrity to external submissions and, more importantly, to stop misreporting before it happens.
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A Research Apparatus for
Higher Education Studies
Is it possible to coordinate institutional research as an instrumental array for the scientific study of higher education effectiveness and student success?
Our Services
For Chief Executive Officers
Confidential services to assess the reliability and validity of key institutional metrics or to audit compliance with the standards of external data submissions.
Quickly review key performance indicators and institutional effectiveness measures to better manage the operations and strategic initiatives of the institution.
Identify inter-departmental data sharing gaps and communication barriers that impede an institution’s ability to fulfill its unique mission to students.
Trend analysis to insure the institution sets goals consistent with its past performance, financial means, and market conditions.
Measure progress on activities and accountability measures key to the fulfillment of strategic goals and objectives set by executive leadership.
A balanced approach for qualitative and quantitative measures to improve and strengthen academic programming.
Build infrastructure for grant proposals and evaluations to join the broader social and federal initiatives to expand access to higher education and improve student outcomes.
For Chief Institutional Effectiveness Officers
Reformat records from your student information systems to meet upload specifications, drastically reducing the time staff spends on submission preparation in future years.
Deploy the specifications of federal submissions and social scientific research principles to create strategic data systems for fact books and complex statistical analysis.
Realistic conclusions about your institution’s competitive position that identify the aspirational peers within reach.
Deploy predictive analytics to provide enrollment management leaders with the foresight to understand the potential impact of enhancements to recruiting and retention strategies.
Applied research to enable administrators to define problems more concisely and form heuristic devices to shape the design of interventions for student success.
Plan, design and implement institutional assessment mechanisms as a comprehensive system to periodically evaluate the success of mission-centric initiatives.
Ethical, applied research design to measure the potential size of the benefit a new program or intervention will have on institutional effectiveness and revenue.