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Showing 1 to 20 of 37 for “"Institutional Effectiveness"”.
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An institutional effectiveness study of the North Carolina community colleges
… are requiring colleges to evaluate the effectiveness of their institutions. In North Carolina the General Assembly mandated the state Board for Community Colleges to develop a list of critical success factors that measure the effectiveness of the North Carolina system. The purpose of …
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Data-Driven Decision Making In Community Colleges: An Integrative Model For Institutional Effectiveness
… agreement in support of the integration of institutional effectiveness measures (key performance indicators) to inform decision making. In addition, the study identifies the relevant motives, organizational structure, and processes to support the continuing organization development as the …
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A taxonomy of institutional effectiveness literature for public higher education, colleges, and universities
… of this study was to produce a taxonomy of institutional effectiveness literature for public colleges and universities. The study was a theoretical and comprehensive analysis of the extant literature on institutional effectiveness from 1970 to the present. Conceptually, the study was an …
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The role of SACSCOC recommendations in changing community college practices for institutional effectiveness: A quantitative analysis
… find challenging, especially within the institutional effectiveness arena. The purpose of this study was to analyze the role of SACSCOC recommendations and institutional changes based on the perceptions of the SACSCOC liaison or primary institutional effectiveness personnel at community …
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Leadership Orientations of Designated Institutional officials At Institutions That Sponsor Graduate Medical Education Programs and Institutional Effectiveness
… but no research studies were found on designated institutional officials (DIOs) at institutions that sponsor graduate medical education programs. This study contributed to the literature by introducing research on leadership characteristics and effectiveness of DIOs. The study's findings can be …
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Institutional Effectiveness and a Culture of Evidence: Accountability Cornerstones for the Community College in the 21st Century
… address these and other concerns while improving institutional effectiveness. This qualitative inquiry used a case study methodology to disentangle these issues through a thorough exploration of the perceptions of the research participants. </p> <p>Six participants were selected through a process …
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Institutional Effectiveness : the Integration of Program Review, Strategic Planning, and Budgeting Processes in Two California Community Colleges
<p><em>Problem</em>. Effective institutional planning is vital to the ability of community colleges to deliberately respond to external and internal pressures to increase accountability and demonstrate institutional effectiveness. A significant indicator for assessing the effectiveness of a program …
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The Hawaii carbon dioxide ocean sequestration field experiment : a case study in public perceptions and institutional effectiveness
In December 1997, an international project agreement was signed in Kyoto for a collaborative study of the direct injection of carbon dioxide into the deep ocean. After a detailed international site selection process, the Natural Energy Laboratory of Hawaii Authority (NELHA), a quasi-governmental …
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An examination of the relationship between participative management and perceived institutional effectiveness in North Carolina community colleges
… between participative management and perceived institutional effectiveness in North Carolina community colleges. Along with determining this relationship, the study endeavored to determine perceptions, in the form of desired items, that employees want to see in their colleges that have a bearing …
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Transformation of data into knowledge within higher education
<p>Establishing institutional effectiveness has beleaguered U.S. higher education institutions for thirty years. One key element of institutional effectiveness is the ability of an organization to use data for effective decision-making. This study provides new insight into this critical component …
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Strategic Performance Management in Public Higher Education: Informing Decisions, Improving Results, and Demonstrating Value
… its impact on leaders’ decision making and institutional effectiveness outcomes, and its alignment with state policy priorities. The study explored the application of specific practices including: a) use of performance measurement data to develop and assess strategic priorities, b) …
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Community Colleges and the Internet: Uses and Impacts
… colleges in the areas of student outcomes, institutional productivity, institutional effectiveness, and institutional culture and climate. All four areas had ratings between moderate and strong in the direction of positive impacts, and potential negative impact was rated between weak and …
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Student Assessment in the Context of Quality: One Community College's Journey
… accountability, quality improvement, and institutional effectiveness in the community college, this case study explored the processes that tied the assessment of student learning to a community college district's continuous quality improvement initiative. The interpretive design of this …
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Exploring Successful Strategies for Integrating Academic Assessment and Strategic Planning in the Community College
… of meeting the accreditation requirement for institutional effectiveness. If the colleges’ success is based on the effectiveness and efficiency of their plans, then the assessment plan needs to be linked and integrated with the institutions strategic plan. The intent of this research study is …
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Integrating ecological impacts into evaluations of the effectiveness of environmental regimes: the example of CITES
… academics and others, in questions regarding the effectiveness of such agreements. Much if not all attention has focused on the institutional aspects of regime functioning, specifically behaviour change. Relatively less attention has been given to the actual ecological or biophysical aspects of …
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A comparison of two definitions of success for community colleges
… for Colleges and Schools criteria for institutional effectiveness was conducted to determine what effect changing success criteria would have numbers of students who are considered successful. Between 1985 and 1989, 11,553 student attending community colleges in southwestern Virginia …
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Faith capital: a persistence study of two student learning communities at a northeastern community college
… to explore and better understand what social and institutional factors account for the success or lack of success in developing, delivering, and sustaining learning communities in support of at-risk, underprepared students enrolled at the community college where the research was conducted. Towards …
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Mapping the topography of the evidence use terrain in assessment of U.S. higher education: a multiple case study approach
… they are constantly asked to provide evidence of institutional effectiveness and quality assurance to multiple stakeholders, but little is known about how institutions actually use evidence of student learning to improve. This study examined the terrain of evidence use by exploring what the …
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Development And Validation Of The Beile Test Of Information Literacy For Education (b-tiled)
… decisions and to provide evidence of institutional effectiveness for program reviews.
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