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Institutional Research and its Role

in University's Development

Research

2پوهندوی دوکتور اسدهللا صمدی : تهیه کننده3/14/2020

(Singh, 2006)


What is institutional research?

Institutional Research (IR)


Institutional research is a broad category of work

done at schools, colleges and universities to inform

campus decision-making and planning:

Admissions

financial aid and finance

curriculum assessment,

enrollment management

staffing,

student life,, facilities, athletics, and alumni relations.

Institutional Research


IR collect, analyze, report, and warehouse quantitative

and qualitative data about their institution's students,

faculty, staff, curriculum, course offerings, and learning

outcomes

institutional researchers share data with one another to

compare their own practices and outcomes against those

of similar institutions

They are involved in collecting and reporting

information to government and accreditation bodies



The sum of all activities directed at empirically describing

the full spectrum of functions (educational, administrative,

and support) at HEIs which are used for the purposes of

institutional planning, policy development, and decision

making (Saupe,1990).

IR provides intelligence to the institution’s leaders to

enable them to shape the policy, posture and institutional

development (Neave, 2003)



The most widely accepted definitions of IR:

decision support—a set of activities that provide

support for institutional planning, policy

formation, and decision making (Joe

Saupe,1990)

IR considered as organizational intelligence

(Cameron Fincher,1978)

Institutional Research Activities


Questions have to be answered?

What is the demographic information of newly enrolled

students, faculty and staff?

How the student found university campus at the end of

second semester?

Which subject or lecturer/professor was the most

challenging, etc. ..?

The main goal of IR is:


Successful Students and Institutions by Using

Data to Make Smarter Decisions and Policies

Many hands make light work.

Uppercase IR Office – circa 2015

Lowercase institutional research – the future

Institutional Researcher


There is no single academic degree that qualifies one to be

an institutional researcher

Suggested strengths include a knowledge of statistics,

research methods, and data analysis capacity (Excel,

SPSS, SAS)

Meanwhile, strong written and oral communications

skills, attention to detail, and knowledge about how

institutions of higher education operate

Pillars of IR


Three tiers of organizational intelligence

technical and analytical.

This is the type of intelligence that you need in order to produce the facts and figures that describe

the basic profile of an institution: admissions, enrollment, degrees awarded, faculty workload, and

finances, and data analysis skills

issues intelligence.

This includes knowledge on student and faculty diversity, resource allocation priorities, the need

for program evaluation and improvement, enrollment goal setting, and capital construction and

knowing about the key people at the institution

contextual intelligence.

This context involves knowing the institution not only internally, but also externally - its history, its

culture, its evolution, and its external environment. The sum total of contextual intelligence understands all the relevant trends in the external

environment—financial, social, political, and demographic. ((Pat Terenzini, 1993)

Institutional research and level of

organizational intelligence (Nel, 2015)


Contextual intelligence (history,

culture and evolution of the

institution and external

environmental trends)

Issues intelligence (e.g. resource

allocation, staff workload, facilities and

enrolment planning)

Technical/analytical intelligence

(facts and figures comprising

institutional profile)

The Golden Triangle of IR


Institutional reporting and

policy analysis

Planning, Enrolment and

Financial Management

Outcome assessment, Program review,

Effeteness and Accreditation

Golden

Triangle

of IR

Five “faces” of Institutional Research


Organizational

role and

culture

Purposes and audiences of IR

Formative and internal (for

improvement)

Summative and

external (for

accountability)

Administrative

and institutional

To describe the institution –IR

as information authority

To present the best case

– IR as spin doctor

Academic and

professional

To analyze alternatives – IR as

policy analyst

To supply impartial

evidence of effectiveness

– IR as scholar

Knowledge

management

To gather and transform data into information and

knowledge; to maintain an institutional repository of data,

information, and knowledge; and to facilitate the process of

knowledge creation and sharing – IR as knowledge

manager Source: Serban 2002

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IR


Question to be answered

What proportion of the students want to continue their

higher education?

How was the outcome of university students, coming

from the schools vs. community colleges?

What percentage of students should be accepted from

the Community colleges?

سال 10میزان فارغین پوهنتون ها موسسات تحصیالت عالی دولتی در (. 1397وزارت تحصیالت عالی، ( )1396–1387)اخیر


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IR


Questions to be answered

How much is the satisfaction rate of students from the campus life?

What percent of graduate are able to do the DOE after graduations?

What proportion of the employers are satisfied from the graduates?

What knowledge or skills (soft and hard) are lacking in university

graduates?

Role of IR in institutional development


The need for data-informed decisions is not limited to national policy,

state systems, or senior leadership of postsecondary institutions.

Decisions that impact the achievement of higher education missions

are also made by students, faculty, frontline staff, and program

administrators—all of who deserve data and information to support

their decisions.

Foundational to effective decision support is the quality of data

inputs and analytics provided by each college’s or university’s

institutional research (IR) function

Role of IR in institutional accreditation


Nearly all colleges and universities that are

accredited from well-know accreditation bodies,

have established an IR capacity that supports

mandated reporting on:

Enrollments

Resources

Student Outcomes

2014-2015 College/University IR Priorities

(USA)

IR Top Priorities Task/Function (Campus IR Respondents) % Responses

Conduct research to support student success 7.9%

Conduct compliance reporting 7.1%

Provide support for institutional or program accreditation 4.9%

Conduct research for decision support 4.5%

Conduct enrollment research 4.5%

Provide support for institutional strategic planning 4.1%

Incorporate institutional dashboards 3.4%

Participate in institutional strategic planning 3.4%

Create a data warehouse 3.0%

Conduct institutional assessment 2.3%

Conduct student learning outcomes assessment 2.3%

AIR sponsored research

institutional research as service

provider (ranked set of clients)


(Swing & Ross, 2016)

Chancellor

All

Others..

Mandatory

reporting

Academic

Vice

Chancellor Office of

Institutional

Research

Major Issues (challenges)


Converting the bank of data into information remains a

challenge for nearly all institutions

Real-time tactical, operational, and strategic decisions cannot

wait for new data collections, nor can they be supported by

elaborate research designs that may take years to produce

In some cases, decision are affected by political, financial and

cultural biases

Institutional Structures

and Policies are Necessary

but Not Sufficient to

Assure Accomplishment of

an Institution’s Mission

Collective force of students as decision makers is the most powerful force on a college campus.

Direct influencers (faculty and staff) are 2nd in power.

Summary and Conclusion


The phrase “garbage in, garbage out” is a well-known warning that

trustworthy results require quality inputs.

Certainly technologies that test and screen data are useful, but for

the near future, human interpretations and direct manipulations of

data—checking, cleaning cross-referencing—will remain important

aspects of education data collections.

The foundation of quality higher education policy decisions stems

from the knowledge, skills, and good will of those who supply data

to the MoHE.

Top-down decisions about the data collections are important; but a

grassroots commitment to quality data is essential.

Summary Strategies for Successful IR

Establish centrality of the office;

Establish a friendly, professional relationship

with key campus individuals;

Write reports that are easy to understand;

Obtain data from primary sources;

Use survey research only when needed; & Be

a FORWARD THINKER!

Data don’t speak for themselves!

And they never talk to strangers. . .

IR as Change Agents

Recommendations:


IR is considered the development driver of the universities

There should be an OIR in every university to collect,

analyze and interpret data regarding student, faculties,

staff, financial, etc. and all decisions should be data based

not personal ideas

Research centers could conduct IR until the OIR is

established in universities.


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