In this episode, Armand Alacbay, Vice President of Trustee and Legislative Affairs at ACTA, and Jerry Malitz, former Chief Information Technology Officer for the Department of Education’s Institute for Education Sciences, take a look at how federal education data can be used to understand your school’s performance relative to peers.
The Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) houses powerful information on nearly every college in the country, providing data for public-facing websites and research tools like the College Navigator. New tools are now using IPEDS data to help parents and prospective students help make informed choices about where to attend college. Through this primer on institutional data, trustees can delve into metrics that are regularly collected by the federal government to inform strategic questions for the next board meeting.
Public distrust of higher education has grown, as low educational standards are coupled with unmanageable tuition costs. The Assessment of Higher Education Learning Outcomes (AHELO) of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development’s (OECD) has properly sought “to provide higher education institutions with feedback on the learning outcomes of their students and which they can […]
The most urgent task of colleges and universities is to prepare graduates for the challenges of career, community, and citizenship. Responsible institutions will be diligent and proactive in determining whether their academic programs increase core collegiate skills in analytical reasoning, mathematics, critical thinking, and writing. This brochure describes several valid, reliable, and nationally-normed assessments that […]
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