Benchmarking in institutional research
By: Gary D. Levy, Nicolas A. Valcik, editors
Contributors: Umbach, Paul D.
Series: New directions for institutional research -- no. 156
Publisher: Jossey-Bass
Published: 2012
Place of publication: San Francisco
Language: eng
Number of pages: 124
Subjects: Benchmarking (Management); Higher Education; Research
Description: "This volume shows different aspects of benchmarking from a wide variety of perspectives that institutional research offices can use for strategic planning and institutional research purposes" -- from Editors' Notes, p. 1.
Notes: "Winter 2012."

Includes bibliographic references and index.
Table of contents: title: How benchmarking and higher education came together / Gary D. Levy, Sharron L. Ronco; title: Internal benchmarking for institutional effectiveness / Sharron L. Ronco; title: Benchmarking and enrollment management / Robert L. Duniway; title: Using institutional survey data to jump-start your benchmarking process / Timothy K. C. Chow; title: Learning how to play ball: applying sabermetric thinking to benchmarking in higher education / Gary D. Levy; title: Selecting peer institutions with IPEDS and other nationally available data / Sarah D. Carrigan; title: Benchmarking tier-one universities: "Keeping up with the Joneses" / Nicolas A. Valcik, Kimberly E. Scruton, Stuart B. Murchison, Ted J. Benavides, Todd Jordan, Andrea D. Stugdon, Angela M. Olszewski / Taming multivariate data : conceptual and methodological issues / Lawrence J. Redlinger, John J. Wiorkowski, Anna I. Moses / Conclusions and future directions / Fred Lillibridge.