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Rebecca Croxton; Bradley Coverdale; Amy Svirsky – Assessment Update, 2024
The Grand Challenges for Assessment in Higher Education project is a collaborative effort of 10 endorsing organizations and over 400 volunteers to increase the extent to which assessment (1) supports equity; (2) is visible, actionable, and drives innovation; and (3) guides rapid improvements in pedagogy (Singer-Freeman and Robinson 2020). Several…
Descriptors: Data, Visualization, Data Use, Educational Assessment
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Ciji A. Heiser; Julene L. Jones; Glenn Allen Phillips – Assessment Update, 2024
Institutions of higher education are asked to consider how their work can advance equity in institutional outcomes. Assessment, too, has been asked to consider the ways in which traditional student assessment "privileges and validates certain types of learning and evidence of learning over others" (Montenegro and Jankowski 2017, p. 5).…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Equal Education, Educational Assessment, Professional Development
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Laura Smithers – Change: The Magazine of Higher Learning, 2024
Speculative reform jumps the gun on notions of data-driven reform, requiring administrators to anticipate and act to ensure problems (and the data that would show them) do not materialize. Speculative reforms are incapable of delivering the outcomes they promise, as they are fueled by a fear of the future that their reforms do not extinguish. In…
Descriptors: Educational Policy, Higher Education, Educational Change, Outcomes of Education
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Amelia Parnell – Journal of Postsecondary Student Success, 2022
Data-informed decision-making is no longer an optional or occasional practice, as higher education professionals now routinely respond to calls for accountability by providing data to show how their work impacts students. Institutions are operating with a culture that, at a minimum, includes the use of descriptive and diagnostic analyses to assess…
Descriptors: Student Needs, Data Use, Prediction, Data Analysis
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Blackmon, Stephanie J. – Change: The Magazine of Higher Learning, 2023
Student privacy is a critical area of higher education that deserves greater focus, particularly as student data digitalization increases. Many colleges and universities use data literacy as a way to prepare students, sometimes from different disciplines, to work with others' data postgraduation. Data literacy can be an avenue for helping all…
Descriptors: Privacy, Data Collection, Data Use, Higher Education
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Lori Riley – Intersection: A Journal at the Intersection of Assessment and Learning, 2024
Assessment professionals are often at the helm of leading discussions around data-use and data-driven decisions for higher education stakeholders. However, the problem is that assessment practitioners must be cognizant of how to engage stakeholders with equity-minded and socially just informed assessment practices. The purpose of this article is…
Descriptors: Praxis, Educational Philosophy, Equal Education, Faculty Development
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Dear, Carley P.; Williams, Melissa A.; Bowlus, Angela M.; Bryan, Angela A.; Collins, Edward L.; Lin, Gregory; Moreno, Kirstin; Schnelle, Teri; Song, Xiaomei; Stanny, Claudia J.; Tucker, Constance R. – Intersection: A Journal at the Intersection of Assessment and Learning, 2021
To produce actionable and accessible assessment findings that drive innovation and improvement, strategies should be implemented at the national and local level throughout each stage of the assessment process. Fostering these findings is the need to authentically engage stakeholders throughout the assessment process. Done well, the engagement of…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Evaluation, Educational Strategies, Stakeholders
Heather A. Turner; Jeffrey C. Sun; Kevin P. Kinser; Sarah T. Zipf – Institute for College Access & Success, 2024
Online program managers (OPMs) are third-party companies that work with colleges and universities to develop, launch, and deliver online learning. Despite the prevalence of these companies in higher education, cost details are often buried or asserted with legal protections as trade secrets or business models unavailable for public review.3…
Descriptors: Electronic Learning, Program Administration, Online Courses, School Business Relationship
Dukes, Dominique – MDRC, 2021
The Evidence to Action project (2019-2021), led by MDRC and the State Higher Education Executive Officers Association (SHEEO) and supported by Arnold Ventures, initiated a body of work designed to disentangle the barriers that exist between research and state-level higher education policy and partnered with state higher education agencies to…
Descriptors: State Policy, Educational Policy, Higher Education, Educational Research
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Parnell, Amelia R. – New Directions for Institutional Research, 2019
For decades, colleges and universities have strived to use data to take bold actions and make big decisions. The result is an expanding community of higher education professionals who are leveraging analytics to deliver optimal learning experiences for students. This chapter will describe the evolution of data use in higher education with a focus…
Descriptors: Data Analysis, Data Use, Decision Making, Higher Education
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Hanson, Jana M.; Moore, Erica J.; Morseau, Amber; Taylor, Darius D. – Tribal College Journal of American Indian Higher Education, 2023
The U.S. Department of Education has required educational collection and reporting. For postsecondary institutions, this requirement has evolved from the Higher Education General Information Survey (HEGIS), which was used from the 1960s to the 1980s, to the Integrated postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) (Aliyeva, Cody, & Low, 2018).…
Descriptors: Evaluation Methods, Tribally Controlled Education, Minority Serving Institutions, Data Collection
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Ansell, Charles – Change: The Magazine of Higher Learning, 2021
Complete College America (CCA) is partnered with the National Student Clearinghouse in promoting the latter's Postsecondary Data Partnership (PDP), a data and reporting tool for tracking student success metrics. The PDP is offered at nominal cost, built for democratized data access, and encompasses transfer data native to Clearinghouse products,…
Descriptors: Data Collection, Data Use, Decision Making, Higher Education
Isaac, James; Pretlow, Josh; Cheng, Diane; Roberson, Amanda Janice – Institute for Higher Education Policy, 2022
We cannot continue to ask students -- and their families -- to make one of the largest and most important investments of their lives without clearer information about what their time and money will yield. Fortunately, support is broad across the country and across the political spectrum for a federal student-level data network (SLDN), which would…
Descriptors: College Students, Information Networks, Federal Programs, Higher Education
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Brown, Michael; Klein, Carrie – About Campus, 2023
The American College Personnel Association recognized the increased prominence of digital technologies in student affairs work, developing a technology competency area that includes foundational, intermediate, and advanced objectives for data use. However, as the role of technology use in student affairs practice rapidly changes, it is…
Descriptors: Data Use, Social Justice, Equal Education, Technology Uses in Education
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Larkan-Skinner, Kara; Shedd, Jessica M. – New Directions for Institutional Research, 2020
As institutions seek to shift into more advanced analytics and data-based decision-support, many institutional research offices face the challenge of meeting the office's current demands while taking on more intricate and specialized work to support decision-making. Given the great need organizations have for information that supports real-time…
Descriptors: Data, Data Analysis, Prediction, Data Use
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