Association for Institutional Research
Enhancing Knowledge. Expanding Networks.
2006 Forum Exhibitors
ACT, Inc. is an independent, not-for-profit organization that provides more than a hundred assessment, research, information, and program management services in the broad areas of education.
David Chadima, Consultant, Postsecondary Assessment Services
david.chadima@act.org
CollegeNET provides an array of technology innovations to higher education. Amoung them, X25 is a Web-based graphical space analysis tool that provides the hard data needed to make informed space management decisions.
Tom Hier, Principal/Consultant of Biddison Hier, Ltd
hier@biddhier.com
Collegiate Learning Assessment
A new set of assessment tools are now available for measuring institutional contributions to undergraduate student learning. The Council for Aid to Education's Collegiate Learning Assessment (CLA) presents measures that are performance-based, administered wholly online, and chart growth in critical thinking, analytic reasoning, and written communication skills.
College Student Experiences Questionnaire Research Program (CSEQ)
The CSEQ provides two questionnaires for use by assessment and institutional researchers to measure students' experiences, campus experiments and self-research gains.
Julie Williams, CSEQ Project Manager
willaj4@indiana.edu
jakuyken@indiana.edu
Data Blocks
Data Blocks is a leading developer of scan form creation software for OMR and page scanners.
Carli Burke, President
cburke@datablocks.com
Datatel provides enterprise management solutions for higher education. For nearly 30 years Datatel has focused on helping institutions operate efficiently and effectively serve constituents
John Van Weeren, Product Manager, Technology
jvw@datatel.com
Tammy_Kicker@datatel.com
eCollege is a leading provider of value-added information services to higher education. eCollege's eCourseEvaluation division provides comprehensive online web-based course/instructor evaluation solutions that can support an institution's entire course evaluation process. For more information visit www.eCourseEvaluation.com.
Kevin Hoffman, Vice President
khoffman@ecollege.com
Gravic, Inc.
Collect data from surveys, tests and other paper and online forms. Grade tests and tally surveys using the Remark product line from Gravic.
Steven P. Joslin, Marketing Coordinator
SJoslin@gravic.com
Hanover Research Council
The Hanover Research Council is the premier information support service for Institutional Researchers. Participants in our fixed-cost program have untrammeled access to Hanover staff, and are free to task us with as many projects - of any level of complexity - as they wish.
Peter Dodge, President
pdodge@hanoverresearch.com
pfernsten@hanoverresearch.com
Wesley Givens- General Manager, Strategy and Operations
wgiven@hanoverresearch.com
Higher Education Research Institute (HERI)
HERI assists institutions in assessing their students' development and the effectiveness of programs and services through the CIRP Freshman Survey, "Your First College Year" and the College Student Survey. To acknowledge the CIRP;s 40th anniversary--we have a special gift for each CIRP user who visits the HERI booth!
Kit Mahoney, CIRP Survey Coordinator
kmahoney@ucla.edu
wkorn@ucla.edu
Information Builders, Inc.
Founded in 1975, Information Builders provides business intelligence, reporting, performance management, and integration with SPSS for ease of delivery and presentation of information and predictive analytics..
Steve Waldman, Manager
steven_waldman@ibi.com
Inquisite Web Survery Systems
Building powerful and professional web surveys with Inquisite.
Aaron Webb, Academic Account Executive
awebb@inquisite.com
sllana@inquisite.com
iStrategy Solutions
iStrategy Solutions is the leading provider of analytic reporting and data warehouse applications for higher education offering the industry's only out-of-the-box Academic Analytic application..
Dan Venedam, Vice President
dvenedam@istrategysolutions.com
National Resource Center for the First-Year Experience and Students in Transition
The 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.
Barbara F. Tobolowsky, Associate Director
barbarat@gwm.sc.edu
Bradcox@sc.edu Randy L. Swing, Fellow
swing@fyfoundations.org
National Student Clearinghouse
StudentTracker enables institutions to query Clearinghouse's database of 60+ million postsecondary enrollment and degree records to improve performance in targeting, selecting and retaining students.
Jeff Tanner, Vice President
tanner@studentclearinghouse.org
National Survey of Student Engagement
The National Survey of Student Engagement (NSSE) provides institutional researchers and assessment people information on the College Student Report, a questionnaire designed to access student involvement and engagement.
Jullian Kinzie, Ph.D. Associate Director, Center for Postsecondary and NSSE Institute
jikinzie@indiana.edu
Robert "Bob" Gonyea, Ed.D., Associate Director, Center for Postsecondary Research
rgonyea@indiana.edu
National Science Foundation
The 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 dexcriptions, and online databases can be found on the Division's Web site: http://www.nsf.gov/statistics/.
James W. Firnberg, Consultant
jfirnberg@lsu.edu
Laura.M.Williams@bethesda.orcmacro.com John E. Jankowski, Program Director Research and Development Program
jjankows@nsf.gov Mark A. Morgan, Technical Director ORC Macro
mark.a.morgan@bethesda.orcmacro.com
Nuventive
Nuventive's enterprise suite of solutions: TracDat assessment management software and iWebfolio electronic portfolio system, equip individuals and organizations to better document, understand, improve, communicate and assess educational quality.
Mike McLaughlin, District Manager
mmclaughlin@nuventive.com
Online Course Evaluations
Online Course Evaluations.com brings innovative technologies to your course evaluations like our dropped class survey and can guarantee your school a great response rate.
Larry Piegza, President
larry@onlinecoursevaluations.com
Pacat Inc./NOMESys
PACAT Inc./NOMESys provides the ACAT, a proven approach for cost-effective higher education outcomes assessment with curriculum specific feedback for individual, programmatic and curricular evaluation.
Anthony Golden, President
AnthonyGolden@CollegeOutcomes.com
Pearson Assessments
Backed by a half century of knowledge and expertise, only Pearson Assessments can provide a single, integrated source of assessment instruments and data capture technologies that offer accurate, reliable and usable information.
John Falatic, Product Manager,
john.falatic@pearson.com
Amy Christensen, Marketing Manager,
amy.christensen@pearson.com
Perseus
Perseus is leading the transition from web survey software to Enterprise Feedback Management (EFM) solutions helping organizations better understand their world. Organizations worldwide rely on Perseus solutions to better identify and meet employee, customer and partner needs, and increase profitability by creating loyal relationships. Perseus products enable business professionals to quickly and easily obtain, analyze and manage sophisticated enterprise feedback using intuitive Web-based software. Perseus SurveySolutions® is used by over 20,000 customers worldwide.
Tim Nelson, Vice President of Sales
tnelson@perseus.com
Steve Nikitin, Senior Sales Engineer
snikitin@perseus.com
Kevin Dougherty, Sales Account Manager
kdougherty@perseus.com
SAS Institute, Inc.
SAS Institute, Inc. is the market leader in providing business intelligence software and services. SAS Higher Education Consulting supports the use of SAS at higher education institutions.
Jerry Oglesby, Director, Higher Education Consulting
Jerry.oglesby@sas.com
Susan.walsh@sas.com Lori Rothenberg, PhD, Higher Education Consultant
lori.rothenberg@sas.com
Scantron Corporation
Scantron is a leading technology solutions provider, offering a full range of software, hardware and services for intelligence gathering, testing, assessment and systems maintenance.
Brad Zentner, Sales Manager
Brad_zentner@scantron.com
Cary Smith, Account Executive
cary_smith@scantron.com
Snap Surveys
Snap is powerful, intuitive survey software for questionnaire design, data Collection and analysis - All survey modes (Web, E-mail, Paper, Phone, PDA, Scanning)- Robust analysis capability.
Stan Smith, Customer Relations Manager
sales@snapsurvey.com
Springer
Springer's Higher Education program offers international, peer reviewed, high quality research. Publishes among others the journal Research in Higher Education. Visit online: www.springer.com/education.
Jasper de Vaal, Product Manager
SPSS
Today 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.
Student|Space
Student|Space Helping institutions measure success!
Student|Space provides extremely user-friendly 4th generation institutional research, student tracking and analytics software to measure a school's success and display institutional and grant summaries in executive dashboards.
Sarab Singh, VP Technology sarab_singh@studentspace.net
StudentVoice
StudentVoice is the assessment resource for more than 250 higher education institutions across North America. We partner with administrators at all levels of responsibility and expertise to develop and execute assessment programs.
Michael Weisman, Vice President
michael.weisman@studentvoice.com
Doug Fraser, Director of Campus Relations
doug.fraser@studentvoice.com
Kim VanDerLinden, Director of Assessment Programs
kim.vanderlinden@studentvoice.com
SunGard Higher Education
SunGard Higher Education (comprised of SunGard BSR, SunGard Colleges, and SunGard SCT) provides software and services that help colleges and universities build, unify, and manage their digital campuses. Bringing together people, processes, and technology, SunGard Higher Education assists more than 1,600 customers worldwide to strengthen institutional performance through improved constituent services, increased accountability, and better education experiences. For more information visit www.sungard.com/highereducation.
Thomas A. Chaves, Product Manager
Thomas.Chaves@sungardhe.com
Tk20, Inc.
Tk20, Inc. is a leading provider of Campuswide assessment management and reporting solutions for higher education. As a preferred provider to university campuses in over 25 states, Tk20 consistently delivers robust applications that can replace legacy systems, and are faster to deploy and simpler to maintain. Feel free to visit us at www.tk20.com.
Bhupi Bhasin, President
bhupi@tk20.com
Sabry Marikar, CEO
sabry@tk20.com
Mark O'Brien, Senior Director of Sales
mobrien@tk20.com
WEAVEonlineSM
WEAVEonlineSM - a systematic planning, evaluation, and improvement solution - allows institutions to manage and track assessment information for accreditation, program reviews, quality enhancement, and annual reporting.
Jean M. Yerian, Director of Assessment, Virginia Commonwealth University
jyerian@vcu.edu
Zogo Tech
ZogoTech helps schools make better-informed decisions through data warehousing. Using ZogoTech's Estudias software, Institutional Researchers and Administrators can quickly "slice and dice" data, play "what-if" scenarios, perform longitudinal cohort tracking, and create ad-hoc reports. Estudias goes beyond data warehousing by consolidating information silos and giving researchers access to group-specific metrics to link student services to learning outcomes. 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.
Michael Taft, Presidentmtaft@zogotech.com