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Assessing Conditions to Enhance Student Success: How Six Campuses Got Started
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Whitt, Elizabeth J.; Kinzie, Jillian; Schuh, John H.; Kuh, George D. – About Campus, 2008
The Inventory for Student Engagement and Success (ISES) is a self-guided framework for conducting a comprehensive, systematic analysis of the properties and conditions for student success that are present at an institution. It can be used to assess an entire institution; units within an institution, such as a school or department or an academic or…
Descriptors: Campuses, Cultural Influences, Minority Groups, Academic Achievement
Small Wins.
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Rhatigan, James J.; Schuh, John H. – About Campus, 2003
Examines how it easy for people to overlook small successes when they are overwhelmed by and preoccupied with large projects and goals. Explores the concept of "small wins" in organizational theory, which have the potential to become a prominent part of institutional culture and impact organizational behavior and change. (GCP)
Descriptors: College Environment, Higher Education, Organizational Change, Organizational Culture
Assessment vs. Research: Why We Should Care about the Difference.
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Upcraft, M. Lee; Schuh, John H. – About Campus, 2002
Should efforts to learn about programs and outcomes be called "research" or "assessment"? The name makes all the difference. Trying to adhere to the standards of research may hinder effective assessment. In this discussion, assessment is compared and contrasted with research to explain how these forms of inquiry differ though methodology is…
Descriptors: Evaluation, Higher Education, Measurement Techniques, Qualitative Research