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Assessment of Student Learning During a Global Pandemic
As institutions planned for a fall term full of uncertainty, AIR was interested to learn about assessment of student learning in spring 2020 given the sudden changes that resulted from the COVID-19 pandemic. Learn MoreRead Moreabout: Assessment of Student Learning During a Global Pandemic -
National Survey Updates
The AIR National Survey of Institutional Research Offices is a nationally representative longitudinal study of the IR Office. This project provides data to better understand the national state of the IR/IE function ...Read Moreabout: National Survey Updates -
Test-Optional Admissions? IR Has Insights
In 2018, the University of Chicago announced that it would no longer be requiring students to submit test scores in order to be admitted (Kmetz, 2018). Their admissions process would now be test-optional,...Read Moreabout: Test-Optional Admissions? IR Has Insights -
IR’s Role in Addressing Racism and Supporting Social Justice
With the start of the new decade, we have seen numerous significant events, including a pandemic that has massively impacted our institutions and has the potential to fundamentally transform the nature of education and w...Read Moreabout: IR’s Role in Addressing Racism and Supporting Social Justice -
Call for Papers: Innovative Higher Education
Innovative Higher Education (IHE) features work on the effect of such innovations on teaching and student learning. Multidisciplinary in scope and approach, IHE publishes diverse forms of scholarship and research ...Read Moreabout: Call for Papers: Innovative Higher Education -
Exploring Data Using Excel’s Power Query Editor
While I primarily use Microsoft Excel’s Power Query Editor to put together a complicated table or report in a short period of time, I’ve learned that you can also use it to explore any data set. Here are the ...Read Moreabout: Exploring Data Using Excel’s Power Query Editor -
Improving Transparency With Applicant Public Access Portals
The Chilean Ministry of Education, through the Sub-secretariat for Higher Education, has instructed the universities to set up public access portals for applicants as a way to improve transparency in information and the ...Read Moreabout: Improving Transparency With Applicant Public Access Portals -
Changes to IR Office Reporting Relationships
From the 2018 AIR National Survey of IR Offices, we learned that most IR offices in U.S. postsecondary institutions report to either the President/Chief Executive Officer or the Provost/Chief Academic Officer; the remain...Read Moreabout: Changes to IR Office Reporting Relationships -
COVID-19, Reopening, and the Role of IR
Concerns about returning to in-person instruction and campus life in fall 2020 in light of COVID-19 remain at the forefront of higher education news. The conversations, planning, strategizing, contingency modeling, and d...Read Moreabout: COVID-19, Reopening, and the Role of IR -
Supreme Court Protects DACA, LGBTQ Workers; Prioritizing DEI During COVID-19
Reports & Tools Spring 2020 Current Term Enrollment Estimates: A COVID-19 Supplement How are students responding to the campus shutdowns and online-only classes amid COVID-19? Which students and which institutions ar...Read Moreabout: Supreme Court Protects DACA, LGBTQ Workers; Prioritizing DEI During COVID-19