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Building Capacity in Institutional Research and Decision Support in Higher Education

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Editors:
  1. Karen L. Webber

    1. Institute of Higher Education, University of Georgia, Athens, USA

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  • Introduces strategies to increase IR professionals’ knowledge and skills through professional development
  • Addresses the need to increase senior leaders’ awareness of the value of IR in decision making
  • Connects Terenzini’s Tiers of Organizational Intelligence to strategies for building the capacity of IR
  • High interest for senior leaders in colleges and universities, as well as IR practitioners

Part of the book series: Knowledge Studies in Higher Education (KSHE, volume 4)

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This book examines the relevant roles, skills and knowledge needed to build the institutional research capacity across the higher education sector globally. The information contained herein will inform IR practitioners, senior level institution officials, and higher education scholars. With a focus on building the capacity of the IR profession, this book’s primary audiences include senior leaders who wish to introduce or strengthen their understanding for effective decision support and staff members who are currently in decision support units and those who wish to serve in this capacity. However, this book also offers detail on the decision support function to higher education scholars who seek to better address how data can inform policy and planning in higher education. Through a broad discussion about the roles and skills of the practitioners, this book will also enumerate the ways in which decision support practitioners can be valued contributors in shaping the future decisionsand direction of specific institutions and higher education broadly. 

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Table of contents (16 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiv
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  2. The Context for IR and Decision Support in Today’s Higher Education

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Institutional Research and Decision Support in Higher Education: Considerations for Today and for Tomorrow

      • Karen L. Webber
      Pages 3-18

    3. The Impact of Global Forces in Higher Education on the Development of Institutional Research

      • Jan Botha
      Pages 19-36

    4. Conceptual Models for IR and Organizational Intelligence

      • William E. Knight
      Pages 37-52

    5. The Need for and Value of Scholarship in Institutional Research

      • Victor M. H. Borden
      Pages 53-66

    6. The Need for and Value of Data Governance

      • Kelly Briner, John Rome
      Pages 67-80

    7. Let Me Paint You a Picture: Utilizing Visualizations to Make Data More Accessible

      • Brent M. Drake, Ian Pytlarz, Monal Patel
      Pages 81-93

    8. Uses and Misuses of Data

      • Charles Mathies
      Pages 95-111

    9. The Finance Conundrum for Higher Education

      • Nicholas Hillman, Adam Kindschy
      Pages 113-132

  3. IR and Decision Support Around the World

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 133-133
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    2. Professional Development for the Institutional Research (IR) Professional: Institutional Research and Decision Support in the United States and Canada

      • Sandra Bramblett, Michelle Broderick
      Pages 135-151

    3. A Focus on IR and Decision Support in the UK, Ireland, Germany, and The Netherlands

      • James Williams, David Kane
      Pages 153-167

    4. Professional Development for IR Professionals: Focus on Latin America

      • María Pita Carranza
      Pages 169-178

    5. Building Capacity for Planning and Institutional Research – A View from Down Under

      • Angel J. Calderon
      Pages 179-199

    6. Building Capacity in Institutional Research in South Africa

      • Yuraisha Chetty, Nicole Muller
      Pages 201-221

    7. Professional Development for IR Professionals: Middle East and North Africa

      • Gina Cinali
      Pages 223-239

    8. Professional Development for IR Professionals: Focus on IR and Decision Support in Asia (China, Korea, Japan, and Taiwan)

      • Ching-Hui Lin, Yuan-Chih Fu, Jang Wan Ko
      Pages 241-257

  4. Advancing IR and Decision Support

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 259-259
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    2. The Future of IR and Decision Support: Ensuring a Seat at the Table

      • Karen L. Webber
      Pages 261-276
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Editors and Affiliations

  • Institute of Higher Education, University of Georgia, Athens, USA

    Karen L. Webber

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Building Capacity in Institutional Research and Decision Support in Higher Education

  • Editors: Karen L. Webber

  • Series Title: Knowledge Studies in Higher Education

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-71162-1

  • Publisher: Springer Cham

  • eBook Packages: Education, Education (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing AG, part of Springer Nature 2018

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-71161-4Published: 12 February 2018

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-89042-5Published: 04 June 2019

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-71162-1Published: 31 January 2018

  • Series ISSN: 2566-7106

  • Series E-ISSN: 2566-8315

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XIV, 286

  • Number of Illustrations: 21 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Higher Education, Educational Policy and Politics, Research Methods in Education

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