What is institutional research all about?
Subtitle: a critical and comprehensive assessment of the profession
By: J. Fredericks Volkwein, editor.
Contributors: Volkwein, J. Fredericks, 1939-
Series: New directions for institutional research -- no. 104; Jossey-Bass higher and adult education series
Publisher: Jossey-Bass Publishers
Published: 1999
Place of publication: San Francisco, Calif
Language: eng
Number of pages: 114
Subjects: Education, Higher -- Research -- United States; Research -- United States
Notes: "Winter 1999."

Includes bibliographical references (p. 105-110) and index.
Table of contents: title: The; title: four faces of institutional research -- J. Fredericks Volkwein; title: On the nature of institutional research and the knowledge and skills it requires -- Patrick T. Terenzini; title: Knowledge, skills, and effectiveness in institutional research -- William E. Knight, Michael E. Moore, Corby A. Coperthwaite -- A; title: profile of institutional researchers from AIR national membership surveys -- Sarah B. Lindquist -- A; title: comparison of findings from regional studies of institutional research offices -- John A. Muffo; title: Emerging perspectives on organizational behavior: implications for institutional researchers -- Frank A. Schmidtlien; title: Teaching institutional research to the learning-inhibited institution -- Mark Bagshaw -- The; title: role of institutional research: from improvement to redesign-- Marvin W. Peterson.