Using Data to Improve Higher Education: Research, Policy and Practice

✍ Scribed by Maria Eliophotou Menon, Dawn Geronimo Terkla, Paul Gibbs (eds.)

Publisher: SensePublishers
Year: 2014
Tongue: English
Leaves: 260
Series: Global Perspectives On Higher Education
Category: Library

No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-vi
Introduction....Pages 1-4
Front Matter....Pages 5-5
Informing or Distracting? Guiding or Driving? The Use of Performance Indicators in Higher Education....Pages 7-24
Opportunities and Barriers to Effective Planning in Higher Education....Pages 25-38
Using Data to Inform Institutional Decision Making at Tufts University....Pages 39-63
Front Matter....Pages 65-65
Student Feedback on the Experience of Higher Education....Pages 67-80
Higher Education Brands and Data....Pages 81-91
Evaluating Students’ Quality of Academic Life....Pages 93-118
Front Matter....Pages 119-119
The Returns to Investment in Higher Education....Pages 121-148
Investigating Students’ Expectations of the Economic Returns to Higher Education....Pages 149-163
Determinants of the Gender Gap in Annual Earnings among College Graduates....Pages 165-180
Higher Education and Equality of Opportunity....Pages 181-193
Front Matter....Pages 195-195
Student Data Privacy and Institutional Accountability in an Age of Surveillance....Pages 197-214
Privacy, Analytics and Marketing Higher Education....Pages 215-228
Using Data and Experts to Make the Wrong Decision....Pages 229-242
Conclusions and Policy Implications....Pages 243-246
Back Matter....Pages 247-256

✦ Subjects

Education (general)

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