Integrating a Qualitative and Quantitative Assessment of the Quality of Academic Life: Political and Logistical Issues.

Marshall, Catherine; And Others

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ERIC Number: EJ437919

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Publication Date: 1991

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Integrating a Qualitative and Quantitative Assessment of the Quality of Academic Life: Political and Logistical Issues.

Marshall, Catherine; And Others

New Directions for Institutional Research, (No. 72 Using Qualitative Methods in Institutional Research) v18 n4 p65-80 Win 1991

Efforts to assess quality of academic life at Vanderbilt University (Tennessee) resulted in a plan to merge qualitative and quantitative measures and uncovered political, logistical, and fiscal issues in collection and use of the two kinds of data. Although qualitative databases are costly, they are also very useful in different ways. (Author/MSE)

Descriptors: College Environment, Cost Effectiveness, Data Collection, Databases, Evaluation Criteria, Evaluation Methods, Higher Education, Institutional Research, Private Colleges, Qualitative Research, Research Methodology, Research Universities, Work Environment

Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Evaluative

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Audience: Administrators; Researchers; Practitioners

Language: English

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