Association for Institutional Research
Enhancing Knowledge. Expanding Networks.
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Gold Level Exhibitor Sponsors |
 Chalk & Wire Learning Assessment, Inc.Chalk & Wire provides research and performance measurement solutions to more than 250 different institutions. Services include a robust, assessable eportfolio, system, data import & export tools and a full featured, "all-in-one" reporting engine that carries out advanced statistical tests and aggregates and disaggregates institutional data of all kinds. Services also include assessment system design and consulting, as well as full training in all aspects of the use the tools to get maximum benefit in the shortest time possible. All core staff and trainers are educators with rich backgrounds in assessment as applied to education, P12 and High Education. Gigi Devanney, COO Geoff Irvine, CEO  SAS Institute IncSAS is the market leader in providing business intelligence software and services. With deep roots in education, SAS has always been dedicated to serving the education community. SAS' Higher Education Consulting group can help your universities or community college incorporate SAS technology into your curriculum with a full menu of programs, services, and events, many of which are offered free of charge. Our Global Certification group helps you put your SAS skills to the test and can add credibility to your resume. Stop by our booth to learn more about Higher Education Consulting and the latest news in SAS Certification. Jerry Oglesby, Ph.D., Director of Higher Education Consulting & Global Certification Julie Petlick, Ph.D., SAS Global Certification Program Manager Sue Walsh, Higher Education Consultant  Tableau SoftwareTableau Software, a privately held company in Seattle WA, builds software that delivers fast analytics and visualization to everyday businesspeople. Our mission is simple: help people see and understand data. Tableau’s easy-to-install products integrate data exploration and visualization to make analytics fast, easy and fun. They include Tableau Desktop, Tableau Server and the no-charge Tableau Reader. We understand the needs of businesspeople, non-technical and technical alike, when it comes to retrieving and analyzing large volumes of data. As a result, Tableau has already attracted over 10,000 licensed users in companies from one-person businesses to the world’s largest organizations. Kevin Brown, VP, Alliances & Partnerships Elissa Fink, VP Marketing Lindsay Lang, Inside Sales Emily Philbin, Marketing Coordinator Amy Schneider, Marketing Programs Manager  TaskStreamFor over a decade, TaskStream has empowered excellence in education and has been committed to helping meet educational performance challenges by providing solutions that enhance community, increase collaboration and support student-centered learning across the organization. Our Accountability Management System (AMS) provides an efficient, effective way for educational institutions to document, analyze and manage performance results across an entire campus. Our Learning Achievement Tools (LAT) support departments and instructors with innovative web-based systems for portfolio-based learning and assessment, instructional design and other tools that empower informed instruction in real-time. Steffon Isaac, Conference Coordinator Webster Thompson, Presenter |
| Silver Level Exhibitor Sponsors |
 CCBenefits, Inc.EMSI is a one-stop provider of regional economic and labor market data, web-based analysis tools, and consulting services–integrated solutions that bring together industry, workforce, and education perspectives. Our thousands of customers represent workforce boards, economic development organizations, government agencies, community colleges, universities, and policy professionals across the nation. They use our data and tools daily to make crucial decisions about regional economic and workforce development issues. With EMSI, you'll have at your fingertips the tools you need to know your economy and drive your workforce. Kjell Christophersen, President Gabriel Rench, Director of Business Development Robert Thornton, Dean of Outreach Services  CollegeNET, Inc.Operational Intelligence – Do You Have It?™ CollegeNET provides real-time, web-based analytic information that lets you see how your institution is performing against key production benchmarks. We provide solutions in admissions, scheduling, faculty evaluation and IT performance. John Killelea, Series Sales Manager Bruce Sylva, Series Sales Manager Heidi VanDerVoorn, Conference Coordinator  EvaluationKitEvaluationKit is a hosted course evaluation and survey system. There is no hardware to buy, setup, or maintain. Designed for Colleges and Universities, EvaluationKit provides all of the functionality you need to manage this important process, including: 1. Custom survey authoring, with optional questions from instructors; 2. Survey deployment to one or many courses; 3. Instructor and Administrator access to view results specific to just their courses or areas they oversee; 4. Integration options to seamlessly link with your existing web presence; And much more… Stop by our booth and learn how collecting student feedback can be made simple. Kevin Hoffman, President  Higher Education Research InstituteHigher Education Research Institute at UCLA and The Cooperative Institutional Research Program CIRP is a national longitudinal study of the American higher education system. It is regarded as the most comprehensive source of information on college students. Established in 1966, the CIRP is now the nation’s largest and oldest empirical study of higher education, involving data on some 1,900 institutions and over 12 million college students. The Higher Education Research Institute has administered the CIRP since 1973. The CIRP longitudinal program consists of the Freshman Survey, Your First College Year Survey, the College Senior Survey, and the triennial Faculty Survey. John Pryor, Director, Cooperative Institutional Research Program  I Strategy SolutionsiStrategy offers a unique, data warehouse application that can be installed in days and implemented in weeks versus months or years for similar deployments. iStrategy’s pre-built data model offers out-of-the-box integration multiple ERP platforms and includes hundreds of already defined measures and dimensions, as well as dozens of reports with thousands of permutations. iStrategy has turned an open ended consulting project into a well defined product creating an open, highly extensible platform that delivers immediate results, while creating an architecture for future growth. Mike Katz, Sales Executive Barrett Moore, Sales Executive Dan Venedam, Vice President  Rapid Insight Inc.Rapid Insight has developed Data Integration and Data Mining software which makes it easy for Institutional Research Professionals to work with their data. Data can be integrated and aggregated from multiple disparate sources, and reporting processes can be streamlined and automated. The creation of visual ‘data jobs’ can be used to track information from its point of extraction, all the way through to final reports and analytic datasets. Jon Kesty, VP of Sales Didi Oxner, Analyst  SPSSToday thousands of colleges and universities around the world have installed SPSS for research, instruction and administrators. In the area of institutional research, SPSS data mining and analysis tools have proved invaluable to many IR researchers and administrators. They have solutions for enrollment management - - specifically, in the areas of student research, legislative reporting, program evaluation and promotion effectiveness studies. Monica Young, Account Manager  Thomson ReutersThomson Reuters delivers essential patent, scientific, and technical research information and resources. In-depth evaluative tools provide unbiased, analytical data used by research institutions and governments worldwide to benchmark and measure research output and influence, allocate funds, and set measurable research goals. Resources such as Thomson InnovationSM, Aureka®, and Derwent Innovations IndexSM facilitate effective intellectual property management and help users identify technological advances, reduce duplication of R&D, discover licensing opportunities, uncover new markets, and more. Vanessa Davis, Project Manager Ann Kushmerick, Manager, Research Evaluation  Tk20, Inc.Tk20 is a leading provider of campus-wide assessment management and reporting solutions for higher education. CampusTools CampusWide is a comprehensive assessment and reporting system for collecting and managing your program, departmental, and institutional data, both academic and non-academic, for the measurement of accountability, institutional effectiveness, and for accreditation. CampusTools lets you collect all your data systematically, plan your assessments, compare them against specified outcomes/objectives, and generate detailed reports for compliance, analysis, and program improvement. Find out more at www.tk20.com. Bhupi Bhasin, President Christine Trobenter, Product Consultant |
| Bronze Level Exhibitor Sponsors |
 Academic AnalyticsAcademic Analytics is the creator of the Faculty Scholarly Productivity Index™ (FSP Index), which is a method for evaluating doctoral programs at Research Universities based on a set of statistical algorithms which measure the annual productivity of faculty on several factors including: publications (books and journal articles), citations of journal publications, federal research funding, and awards and honors. Our analysis creates, at the discipline level, a scale based on the cumulative scoring of a program's faculty using these measures compared against national standards. Each program can then be compared to the national mean z-score. Maria Anderson, Director, Business & Research Operations Bill Savage, Exhibitor  Academic Management Systems (AMS)Build a “culture of evidence” in your school’s assessment program. CoursEval™ solves the problem of cumbersome, untimely and inflexible course and instructor evaluations. CoursEval™ software gives your IR staff, deans, and faculty the means to create, deploy, and analyze surveys that cover a wide range of assessment needs; peer and self-assessments, formative and summative assessments, longitudinal or cohort assessments – across courses, departments, etc. Our new remote portal tool, MyCoursEval, offers a dynamic interface between CoursEval and Blackboard, WebCT, Moodle, and other course management systems. For information, contact: Brian R. Hopewell, Academic Management Systems, 716.867.8434, bhopewell@academicmanagement.com Brian Hopewell, Director of Business Development  Collegiate Learning AssessmentThe Collegiate Learning Assessment [cla] measures growth in undergraduate student learning in the areas of critical thinking, analytic reasoning and written communication. The CLA employs open-ended, performance-based instruments in which students demonstrate their abilities to use information and craft or analyze persuasive arguments. The longitudinal and cross-sectional administration modes can be used to chart learning and growth through a unique value-added analytical approach. Marc Chun, Research Scientist Heather Kugelmass, Program Associate LeighAnn Rodd, Program Associate  Educational Benchmarking, Inc.Educational Benchmarking (EBI) is focused on the improvement of the college experience. Our latest project, MAP-Works (a collaborative project with Ball State University) provides information directly to faculty/staff to identify students at risk and to help students make a positive transition to college. EBI also offers over seventy nationally benchmarked assessments in areas like housing, student activities, greek life, and academic departments that enable schools to identify which key areas will have the greatest impact on overall improvement. Darlena Jones, Director of Research and Development Todd Pica, EBI Project Director  Gravic, Inc.Gravic's Remark Software Products collect and analyze data from paper and web forms (surveys, evaluations, assessments). Use any word processor to create and print your own plain-paper surveys and scan them with Remark Office OMR using an image scanner. Or, create, host and administer online surveys using Remark Web Survey. Host your own online forms; there are no form or respondent limitations. Use both products to combine data from paper and web surveys. Easily generate analysis reports and graphs with Remark Quick Stats, a built-in analysis component. Or, export data to 35+ different formats (SPSS, Excel, ASCII, etc.). Victor Berutti, Senior Vice President Steve Joslin, Marketing Coordinator Suzanne Kitwin, Sales Manger Nora Petchkofski, Remark Product Manager  IDEA Center, TheThe IDEA Center provides services to support the improvement of teaching, learning, and administrative performance. Its primary service, the IDEA Student Ratings of Instruction system, is a tool that can service both individual and program improvement/evaluation efforts. We also have feedback instruments to rate department chairs, deans, and other administrators. The IDEA Center publishes short application-oriented papers related to teaching, learning, and evaluation. IDEA Papers, POD-IDEA Center Notes, and POD-IDEA Center Learning Notes are available at (www.theideacenter.org). The Center also hosts national seminars related to teaching improvement or faculty evaluation and co-hosts the Academic Chairpersons Conference held annually since 1984. Sally Garvin, Senior Program Administrator Amy Gross, VP for Integrative Client Services William Pallett, President  National Survey of Student Engagement, TheThe National Survey of Student Engagement (NSSE) yields useful information about the quality of the undergraduate experience. NSSE results are used in many ways including: assessment and improvement, accreditation, benchmarking, faculty development, and various accountability efforts. Visit our exhibit to learn more about NSSE, and related surveys, the Faculty Survey of Student Engagement (FSSE) and the new Beginning College Survey of Student Engagement (BCSSE). Jillian Kinzie, Ph.D., Associate Director, Center for Postsecondary and NSSE Institute  Snap SurveysSnap Survey Software is a powerful, intuitive Windows-based program for questionnaire design, publishing, data collection and analysis. Snap supports all survey modes (Web, E-mail, Paper, Kiosk, Phone, PDA, Scanning, Tablet PC). Snap has robust analysis capability (Tables, Charts, and Descriptive & Multivariate Statistics) and is very extensible – MS Access or SQL database connectivity and seamless integration with SPSS and MS Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Access). Tobin Green, Sales Associate Andrea Tavano, Customer Relations Manager |
| Standard Exhibitor Sponsors |
 ACT, Inc.ACT, Inc. is an independent, not-for-profit organization that provides over a hundred assessment, research, information, and program management services in areas of education planning, career planning, and workforce development. The Collegiate Assessment of Academic Proficiency (CAAP) is the standardized assessment program from ACT that enables postsecondary institutions to assess, evaluate, and enhance the outcomes of general education programs. ACT Survey Services are designed to help educational institutions obtain reliable information that can be used to evaluate and enhance their programs. These can be used to help with program and service evaluation, institutional planning, outcomes assessment, retention enhancement and alumni relations. Claire Boyd, National Exhibits Coordinator Sandra Stewart, CAAP/ Survey Services Consultant, Postsecondary Assessment  ASR AnalyticsASR Analytics provides high-end business intelligence and analytic consulting services to clients in higher education. ASR aims to provide institutional decision makers with self-service decision support tools to help them be more effective in their recruitment, retention, and accountability initiatives. To learn more about our solutions visit: http://www.asranalytics.com/. Graham Tracey,  College Student Experiences Questionaire Research ProgramThe CSEQ Assessment Program is dedicated to improving the quality of undergraduate student learning environments by providing two unique and valuable survey instruments. • The College Student Experiences Questionnaire measures the quality of student experiences, perceptions of the campus environment, and progress toward important educational goals. • The College Student Expectations Questionnaire measures new student expectations for the college experience. When paired with the CSEQ it can assess the degree to which those expectations were met. Julie Williams, CSEQ Project Manager Kathleen Zaback, CSEQ Project Associate  Concord USA, Inc.Xitracs™ is a proven purpose-built software system that has been designed specifically to streamline reaffirmation and compliance projects. It meets the needs of higher education institutions by providing an integrated and comprehensive solution that is both easy to use and cost-effective. In addition to regional agencies such as WASC, SACS and NWCCU it is also scalable to include other national agency accreditation projects such as NCATE or AACSB. Use Xitracs™ to build a project calendar, organize and assign people, collect evidence in a library, maintain faculty credentials, create action projects and plans, view management reports and electronically publish a submission. Howard Taylor, Vice President  Edumetry, Inc.EduMetry is the pioneer in assessment of learning in response to changing accreditation and learning requirements. It is the only provider of an end-to-end assessment service for higher education. Learning Outcomes Management (LOM) is a rigorous process for the continuous improvement of student learning that draws on the power of data analytics. By providing a faculty-driven process, yet sparing faculty the mechanics of assessment, EduMetry truly helps educators play the role of Learning Architect. Similarly by providing administrators with powerful analytics to derive insights from learning-outcomes data, EduMetry transforms administrators (institutional researchers, deans, provosts and chairs) into Learning Orchestrators. Unlike companies providing software that is little more than a repository for assessment-data, EduMetry’s offering is a service that allows faculty to focus on closing the loop rather than on the mechanics of data collection. Robert Galvin, Vice President, Sales & Marketing  eXplorance, Inc.eXplorance provides enterprise-class paper/online course evaluation and survey systems. The main philosophy behind eXplorance’s Blue/Evaluation platform is to eliminate all redundant and tedious implementation and reporting tasks, providing administrators, staff and students full autonomy throughout the process. Blue/Evaluation can integrate within an IT infrastructure at all levels: • Student, instructor and course information systems (PeopleSoft, Banner, Blackboard, Oracle, SAP, SQL) • Student/faculty authentication systems (LDAP) • Web portal systems through web services and dashboard functionality In addition, Blue/Evaluation has several advanced features: • Personalized questionnaires • Digital signing workflow • Sophisticated analysis • Customized reporting component • Granular role management Samer Jaffar, Account Executive Samer Saab, Director of Product Management  Information Builders, IncFounded in 1975, Information Builders provides business intelligence, reporting, performance management, and integration with SPSS, which translates into ease of information delivery and predictive analytics. We invite you to visit our booth, and check out a higher education demonstration of how WebFOCUS can help you with everything from web-based, institutional research reporting to a presidential dashboard! Tim Beckett, Higher Education Accounts Manager  LiveTextLiveText provides institutions with the most advanced and user-friendly web-based tools for developing, assessing, and measuring student learning outcomes/competencies. From standards-alignment and assessments to data reporting and surveys, LiveText equips students, faculty, and administration with the tools and support to easily report and demonstrate true assurance of student learning and achieve accreditation success. Ida Asner, Solutions Consultant Darin M. Gladfelter Exhibitor, Marketing Coordinator Brian Murphy, Director of Field Consultants  Multi Health SystemsMHS has been a leader in the research and development of Emotional Intelligence assessments for over a decade. Ever since the construct of Emotional Intelligence was first linked to student performance, we have been dedicated to working with colleges to make our tests accessible and relevant to them. MHS has developed relationships with campuses across the United States and Canada with the goal of helping them to improve the performance of their students. Jon Duffy, Postsecondary Partner Relations Consultant  National Center for Education StatisticsIPEDS is the core postsecondary education data collection program for NCES. Data are collected from all primary providers of postsecondary education in the country in areas including enrollments, program completions, graduation rates, faculty, staff, finances, institutional prices, and student financial aid. These data are made available on our website to students, researchers and others. Elise Miller, Program Director  National Resource Center for The First Year ExperienceThe National Resource Center for the First-Year Experience and Students in Transition offers publications, conferences, and teleconferences for educators dedicated to providing successful learning and transition experiences for all college students. Jennifer Latino, Assistant Director, University 101 Programs Rico Reed, Coordinator of Public Relations and Resource Development  National Science FoundationThe Division of Science Resources Statistics fulfills the legislative mandate of the National Science Foundation Act to “provide a central clearinghouse for the collection, interpretation, and analysis of data on scientific and engineering resources, and to provide a source of information for policy formulation by other agencies of the Federal Government...” To carry out this mandate, the Division designs, supports, and directs periodic surveys on the education of scientists and engineers, the science and engineering workforce, research and development funding and expenditures, the education infrastructure, and public attitudes toward science. Reports, data, survey descriptions, and online databases can be found on the Division’s Web site: http://www.nsf.gov/statistics/ Ronda Britt, Survey Statistician James Fernberg, Consultant John Jankowski, Program Director Research and Development Program Laura Williams, WebCASPAR Project Director  National Student ClearinghouseThe National Student Clearinghouse, a non-profit organization, is the largest source of US college degree and enrollment information. More than 3,000 institutions, enrolling over 91% of post-secondary students, participate in the Clearinghouse. These institutions regularly submit actual enrollmentand degree information on each of their students to us. As a result, the Clearinghouse maintains the only nationwide collection of college enrollment and degree records, covering 80 million students and growing. Through our educational research service, StudentTracker, college enrollment management managers can obtain the information they need to more effectively plan curriculum modifications, establish inter-institutional alliances, and much more. www.studentclearinghouse.org Richard Reeves, Director of Research Dannett Sullivan, Western Regional Director  NuventiveNuventive is a leading provider of solutions for assessing, managing and demonstrating continuous improvement in education. Our enterprise suite of software solutions: TracDat for enterprise assessment management, Insight for communicating institution wide initiatives, and iWebfolio for electronic portfolio solutions, equip individuals and organizations to better understand, assess, improve, and communicate educational quality. Scott Johnson, Vice President/Sales David Raney, CEO  Center for Strategic ImprovementUCO’s success with Transactional Lean has saved thousands of dollars. Transactional Lean enhances communication, reduces duplication, improves efficiency, and strengthens customer service in campus processes. UCO offers programs and services to help other higher education organizations start their journey with Lean. In addition to customized training programs and onsite facilitation services, UCO offers a Transactional Lean Facilitator Certification Program. Check out our schedule for summer Certification Programs. Karen Kusler, Process Improvement Cynthia Murray, Associate Professor of Mathematics and Statistics  Scantron CorporationWith a presence in over 90% of schools in America, Scantron offers a full range of software, hardware and services aimed at intelligence gathering, testing, assessment, surveys, and systems maintenance. For Colleges/Universities, Class Climate is capable of paper and web surveys, with automatic capture of open-ended comments on paper forms. Brad Zentner, Director of Education Sales  Springer SBMOur business is publishing. Throughout the world, we provide scientific and professional communities with superior specialist information – produced by authors and colleagues across cultures in a nurtured collegial atmosphere of which we are justifiably proud. Springer’s Education program aims at helping the world’s educators to fulfill their potential. It covers specialized fields including educational policy, administration and leadership and offers many titles on assessment, pedagogy and most organizational aspects of education. This program offers insights from a variety of perspectives and disciplines. For the most up-to-date information on the Education program please visit springer.com. Bernadette Ohmer, Ms  The College BoardThe College Board is a not-for-profit membership association whose mission is to connect students to college success and opportunity. Founded in 1900, the association is composed of more than 5,000 schools, colleges, universities, and other educational organizations. Each year, the College Board serves seven million students and their parents, 23,000 high schools, and 3,500 colleges through major programs and services in college admissions, guidance, assessment, financial aid, enrollment, and teaching and learning. Among its best-known programs are the SAT®, the PSAT/NMSQT®, and the Advanced Placement Program® (AP®). Mary-Margaret Kerns, Senior Director, Validity Research & Services and Computer-Based Testing Emily Shaw, Assistant Research Scientist  True OutcomesTrueOutcomes is a specialist in standards-based assessment, risk retention, and providing information-based decision-making to higher education institutions. A division of Cengage Learning, one of the largest and oldest publishers in higher education, TrueOutcomes is a partner you can trust. Eric Gibbs, Director of Sales Valerie Leonhardt, Conventions Manager Douglas Walcerz, Chief Learning Officer  University of Washington Office of AssessmentThe Office of Educational Assessment provides a variety of evaluation and assessment services both for the University community and for outside agencies. Our research staff are specialists in quantitative and qualitative methods in areas of program evaluation, survey research, and assessment of college outcomes. We also offer a nationally recognized Instructional Assessment System (IAS). This course evaluation system is unique because of the 13 standardized forms which assess course components and support program accreditation. We also have an online course evaluation system, testing, and test scoring services. We pride ourselves on accuracy and responsiveness. Joanna Loss, Manager  University of Wisconsin - StoutThe UW-Stout Applied Research Center specializes in providing research assistance to other higher education institutions. Three primary types of services are provided: benchmarking surveys, custom services, and a polytechnic data sharing consortium.
 WEAVEonlineWEAVEonline is a web-based assessment system that helps you to manage accreditation, assessment and quality improvement processes for your college or university. It increases your institution’s understanding of and commitment to ongoing planning and evaluation from the level of individual programs up through the entire institution. WEAVEonline promotes collaboration within and across all academic and administrative units and builds institutional commitment to continuous improvement. Matt Urey, Marketing and Events Coordinator
 Web Access Inc.WASurvey Software Bipin Pandey, CEO Maurice Waters, Senior Accounts Manager  ZogoTechZogoTech helps schools make better-informed decisions through data warehousing. Using ZogoTech's business intelligence solution, Institutional Researchers and Administrators can quickly "slice and dice" data, play "what-if" scenarios, perform longitudinal cohort tracking, and create ad-hoc reports. ZogoTech's solutions consolidate information silos to provide a single version of the truth. Users can access the data through many analytical tools such as SAS, SPSS, and Microsoft Excel. See our AIR website for an online demo and our presentation times: http://zogotech.com/air. Rod Macisidor, Senior Architect Michael Nguyen, Account Executive Michael Taft, President/CEO |