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Adejo, Olugbenga; Connolly, Thomas – Journal of Education and Practice, 2017
The increase in education data and advance in technology are bringing about enhanced teaching and learning methodology. The emerging field of Learning Analytics (LA) continues to seek ways to improve the different methods of gathering, analysing, managing and presenting learners' data with the sole aim of using it to improve the student learning…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Program Implementation, Information Utilization, Evidence Based Practice
Rienties, Bart; Cross, Simon; Marsh, Vicky; Ullmann, Thomas – Open Learning, 2017
Most distance learning institutions collect vast amounts of learning data. Making sense of this 'Big Data' can be a challenge, in particular when data are stored at different data warehouses and require advanced statistical skills to interpret complex patterns of data. As a leading institute on learning analytics, the Open University UK instigated…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Distance Education, Data Collection, Data Interpretation
Epstein, Irwin – Research on Social Work Practice, 2015
Challenging the "bridge metaphor" theme of this conference, this article contends that current practice-research integration strategies are more like research-to-practice "pipelines." The purpose of this article is to demonstrate the potential of clinical data-mining studies conducted by practitioners, practitioner-oriented PhD…
Descriptors: Evidence, Social Science Research, Social Work, Theory Practice Relationship
Neal, Jennifer Watling; Neal, Zachary P.; VanDyke, Erika; Kornbluh, Mariah – American Journal of Evaluation, 2015
Qualitative data offer advantages to evaluators, including rich information about stakeholders' perspectives and experiences. However, qualitative data analysis is labor-intensive and slow, conflicting with evaluators' needs to provide punctual feedback to their clients. In this method note, we contribute to the literature on rapid evaluation and…
Descriptors: Qualitative Research, Data Analysis, Evaluation, Evaluation Methods
Mathies, Charles; Valimaa, Jussi – Tertiary Education and Management, 2013
Recent changes in European higher education have accompanied a strong desire and need by national ministries to have comparable data across institutions and a growing recognition from campus leaders that effective planning and decision-making requires reliable institutional data and analyses. This has induced changes and restructuring of duties…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Institutional Evaluation, Governance, Data Analysis
Lee, In Heok – Career and Technical Education Research, 2012
Researchers in career and technical education often ignore more effective ways of reporting and treating missing data and instead implement traditional, but ineffective, missing data methods (Gemici, Rojewski, & Lee, 2012). The recent methodological, and even the non-methodological, literature has increasingly emphasized the importance of…
Descriptors: Vocational Education, Data Collection, Maximum Likelihood Statistics, Educational Research
Carter, Sunshine; Ambrosi, Thomas – Computers in Libraries, 2011
The University of Minnesota-Duluth is the second largest campus in the University of Minnesota system. The UMD library, which serves more than 11,000 students and 500 faculty members, is primarily an undergraduate library. The reference team consists of eight librarians, including author Sunshine Carter, reference and electronics resources…
Descriptors: Reference Services, Library Automation, Library Development, Academic Libraries
Hourigan, Clare – Journal of Institutional Research, 2011
Academic standards and performance outcomes are a major focus of the current Cycle 2 Australian Universities Quality Agency (AUQA) audits. AUQA has clearly stated that universities will need to provide "evidence of setting, maintaining, and reviewing institutional academic standards and outcomes" (2010, p. 27). To do this, universities…
Descriptors: Decision Making, Admission Criteria, Program Improvement, Data Analysis
Thomas, Ronald S. – Principal Leadership, 2010
Despite all the speeches, articles, and meetings about data-based instructional decision making, the author's observation after more than 20 years of working with middle and high school teams is that teachers and administrators often make important instructional decisions on the basis of historical precedent, anecdotal information, experience, or…
Descriptors: Decision Making, Data Processing, Decision Making Skills, Management Information Systems
Heydinger, Richard B.; Norris, Donald M. – CAUSE/EFFECT, 1979
Arguments for and against decentralization of data management, analysis, and planning systems are presented. It is suggested that technological advances have encouraged decentralization. Caution in this direction is urged and the development of an articulated decentralization program is proposed. (SF)
Descriptors: Administrative Organization, Centralization, Change Strategies, College Planning
Braniff, Tom – CAUSE/EFFECT, 1979
The use of a data base management system (DBMS) as opposed to traditional data processing is discussed. The generalized file concept is viewed as an entry level step to the DBMS. The transition process from one system to the other is detailed. (SF)
Descriptors: Change Strategies, Computer Science, Computers, Data Processing
Gustavson, Patricia – CAUSE/EFFECT, 1983
A sociotechnical systems model used by John Brown University is described that is useful for analyzing the complexities of change in an organization and for describing the many elements involved in change. (Author/MLW)
Descriptors: Centralization, Change Strategies, College Administration, Data Processing
Topping, L. Sharon – CAUSE/EFFECT, 1979
The results of a study addressing the problems of the management information system of the State University System of Florida are discussed. It is suggested that a majority of the problems did not reside in software and hardware applications but in general management practices. Recommendations are also included. (SF)
Descriptors: Administration, Change Strategies, Computers, Data Processing
Mulligan, Larry; Semprevivo, Phil – CAUSE/EFFECT, 1979
The development of a computer-based administrative system at the University of Albany--The Dictionary/Directory Facility-- is described. This system is viewed as a dynamic one that can function in an environment characterized by change. (SF)
Descriptors: Change Strategies, College Administration, Computer Science, Computers
Penrod, James I.; Craft, Larry N. – CAUSE/EFFECT, 1978
The planning, design, and implementation of an information system at Pepperdine University in California is described. The difficulties of total redesign and new programing of a management information system are explained and recommendations for this process are made. (BH)
Descriptors: Case Studies, Change Strategies, College Administration, Computer Science
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