Institutional Research
Below is a list of canned reports, methods, and madness that are designed to engage researchers in basic to advanced research methods.
Data Challenge: Update a CIP code table to complete the IPEDS Completions Survey
Submitted by Andrew Walker It is Monday... and I was given the challenge of updating the "CIP Code Crosswalk" table for Wilson Community College as it is related to the Completion IPEDS Fall Survey. I could, by hand, review what is already in my process flow with the...
Leveraging Informer to Document Data Origination
You are asked to update a report from the past. Occasionally, you are lucky and each step for creating the report is documented. Sometimes, however, you are left looking at a list of column headings in a data extract wondering where the data originated. As I dug...
Books for Institutional Research staff
Here are some recommended books for institutional researchers (IR). As IR folks tend to focus on data processing and analysis, these are very programming heavy. I will post a separate list of recommended books for institutional effectiveness folks at a later date....
Applied to Transcribed Research Methods
Have you ever wanted to know... Of those students who are engaged in the application process, how many students transcript during the same term they applied? Simply stated, if a student applied for 2015FA did they complete a course in 2015FA? The research method...
SAS Education Analytical Suite
North Carolina Community College's have been granted free access to SAS licenses, professional development, and resources through the SAS Education Analytical Suite. Below are two links describing the resources. SAS Education Analytical Suite White Paper SAS...
Find Certificates
Research methods were developed to pull data from Colleague with Informer then analyze the information with SAS. The outcome is to find students who have taken the correct classes to earn the certificate, transcripted within the reporting...
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