Ever wonder what the Insitutional Research office does at your school? Want to know what IPEDS stands for? How about NSSE? A CIRP survey? How do schools make decisions about their budgets, their curriculum, their student services? It all starts with data, and the IR folks are the ones who fetch.
Tuesday, October 18, 2011
ANOTHER great article on data mining - this one about monitoring student academic performance
Interesting... this is a big subject, one that needs following. This article deals with using student data to flag student academic performance at Paul Smiths University.
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