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Council of the Great City Schools, 2020
In 2002 the Council of the Great City Schools and its members set out to develop performance measures that could be used to improve business operations in urban public school districts. The Council launched the Performance Measurement and Benchmarking Project to achieve these objectives. The purposes of the project were to: (1) Establish a common…
Descriptors: Urban Schools, Public Schools, Elementary Secondary Education, Performance
Smithson, John; Birks, Melanie; Harrison, Glenn; Nair, Chenicheri Sid; Hitchins, Marnie – Quality Assurance in Education: An International Perspective, 2015
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to examine current approaches to interpretation of student evaluation data and present an innovative approach to developing benchmark targets for the effective and efficient use of these data. Design/Methodology/Approach: This article discusses traditional approaches to gathering and using student feedback…
Descriptors: Benchmarking, Data, Evaluation Utilization, College Students
Brown, Benjamin; Singh, Chandralekha – Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2021
We discuss the development and validation of a conceptual multiple-choice survey instrument called the survey of thermodynamic processes and first and second laws (STPFaSL) suitable for introductory physics courses. The survey instrument uses common student difficulties with these concepts as resources in that the incorrect answers to the…
Descriptors: Test Construction, Test Validity, Thermodynamics, Scientific Concepts
Wooldridge, Barbara Ross; Byun, Kyung-Ah; Pei, Zhi; Hong, JungHwa; Swimberghe, Krist R. – Marketing Education Review, 2021
The outbreak of COVID-19 was a major disruption to higher education and marketing education across the globe. COVID-19 impacted not only our campuses, but also how we teach and our students. As marketing academicians, we must respond to the educational risk posed to COVID-19 to facilitate educational success in the future. We conducted an…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Business Administration Education, Department Heads
Palacios, Moses; Vignola, Eric; Sarfo, Akisha Osei; Hart, Ray – Council of the Great City Schools, 2021
Great City School districts that have embraced the challenge of educating America's urban children have recognized the value of benchmarking their performance and growth against the progress of others. This report presents a number of different ways that member districts can analyze the data themselves by disaggregating results, showing trends,…
Descriptors: Urban Schools, Educational Indicators, Preschool Education, Enrollment
Phillips, Gary W. – American Institutes for Research, 2014
This report uses international benchmarking as a common metric to examine and compare what students are expected to learn in some states with what students are expected to learn in other states. The performance standards in each state were compared with the international benchmarks used in two international assessments, and it was assumed that…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, State Standards, Benchmarking, Comparative Analysis
Garwe, Evelyn Chiyevo; Thondhlana, Juliet – Journal of Applied Research in Higher Education, 2022
Purpose: This paper contributes to knowledge on the internationalization of higher education (HE) through presenting a "lived" experience on how to optimize internationalization outcomes through national internationalization policy development. Design/methodology/approach: This paper uses a case study of Zimbabwe to qualitatively chart a…
Descriptors: Global Approach, Higher Education, Educational Policy, Foreign Countries
Ambika Priya Walker – ProQuest LLC, 2022
Votes of no confidence have increasingly been used, particularly by internal campus constituents, to indicate severe discontent with and distrust of higher education presidents. No national benchmarking institution or educational agency collects data on votes of no confidence or sets standards for what is considered a normal number of votes of no…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Voting, College Presidents, Governance
Camphuijsen, Marjolein K.; Møller, Jorunn; Skedsmo, Guri – Journal of Education Policy, 2021
This paper investigates how and why test-based accountability (TBA), a global model for education reform, began to dominate educational debates in Norway in the early 2000s, and how this policy has been operationalised and institutionalised over time. In examining the adoption and retention of TBA in Norway, we build on the cultural political…
Descriptors: Accountability, Public Officials, Educational Policy, Standards
Merga, Margaret K.; Mason, Shannon – Journal of Further and Higher Education, 2021
It is no longer sufficient for higher education providers to solely focus on fostering academic research communication skills in their doctoral candidates, as a broader skillset is needed to communicate research effectively to diverse audiences. Such knowledge mobilisation facilitates research impact beyond academia and is linked to funding…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Doctoral Programs, Graduate Study, Doctoral Students
National Association of College and University Business Officers, 2013
This report provides the survey results of institutions' student account and loan receivables, payment channels, credit balance refunds, third-party payments, staffing, and student financial services expenditures from FY08 to FY12. [For "2012 Student Financial Services Benchmarking Report," see ED608488.]
Descriptors: Student Financial Aid, Financial Services, Loan Repayment, Expenditures
Trimble, Brad – RP Group, 2022
In 2021, the Research and Planning Group for California Community Colleges (the RP Group) conducted a survey of institutional research, planning, and effectiveness (IRPE) offices in the California Community Colleges (CCC) system. The purpose of this survey was to: (1) Identify key research and planning priorities and activities of the IRPE…
Descriptors: Institutional Research, Community Colleges, Institutional Evaluation, Educational Planning
DeBaun, Bill; Melnick, Sara; Morgan, Elizabeth – Journal of College Access, 2016
This report, the first of an annual series, establishes meaningful metrics about the outcomes of students served by college access and success programs. Using data collected from 24 college access programs, enrollment and graduation rates for the high school classes of 2007, 2008, and 2009 and an enrollment rate for the high school class of 2013…
Descriptors: College Students, Graduation Rate, Achievement Gap, Access to Education
Cicchinelli, Louis F.; Kendall, John S.; Dandapani, Nitara – Regional Educational Laboratory Pacific, 2016
A quality data management system, such as an education management information system (EMIS), a state longitudinal data system, or a data warehouse, is key to ensuring that education policy, planning, and strategy decisions are grounded in accurate information. The chief state school officers of the Federated States of Micronesia have recognized…
Descriptors: Benchmarking, Management Information Systems, Educational Policy, Educational Planning
Kendall, John S.; Dandapani, Nitara; Cicchinelli, Louis F. – Regional Educational Laboratory Pacific, 2016
A quality data management system, such as an education management information system (EMIS), a state longitudinal data system, or a data warehouse, is key to ensuring that education policy, planning, and strategy decisions are grounded in accurate information (Data Quality Campaign, 2010; Mohamed, Kadir, May-Lin, Rahman, & Arshad, 2009;…
Descriptors: Benchmarking, Management Information Systems, Quality Assurance, Longitudinal Studies