Basis for decision; a composite of current institutional research methods and reports for colleges and universities.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lins, Leon Joseph, 1918-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Education--Research.

Education.

Universities and colleges.

Physical Description:

89 unnumbered pages-228 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm

Place of Publication:

Madison, Wis. : Dembar Educational Research Services, 1963.

Contents:

Institutional research, planning and politics / Loring M. Thompson

Programming the unknown, guidelines for the conduct of institutional research / Philip H. Tyrrell

Institutional research and automation / Edward M. Stout and Irma Halfter

Institutional research at the University of Puerto Rico / Rosa Esther Escalera

A new re-accreditation pattern based on institutional research, the self-study at Fordham University / Francis J. Donohue

The University of New Hampshire self study / Allan A. Kuusisto

An approach to institutional cost analysis / Robert E. Hubbard

Unit costs of instruction in higher education / D. Gordon Tyndall and Grant A. Barnes

Forms for gathering data on teaching loads / Clifford L. Constance

A concept of the measurement of faculty load / Charles E. Howell

Educational forecasting at the University of Akron / D.J. Guzzetta

.

Faculty satisfactions and dissatisfactions / John Dale Russell

Planning educational facilities / Frederick E. Schwehr

Single undergraduate student costs and income, the University of Wisconsin / L.J. Lins

Application fees and room deposits in selected colleges and universities / Ralph E. Kirkman

Women and higher education- with special reference to the University of Wisconsin / E.B. Fred

Non-immigrant foreign students, a survey of their needs and interests / Joseph Tanenhaus and Sidney G. Roth

College freshmen's motives for going to college and academic achievement / Gerhard Lang, Amedeo G. Sferra, and Ann K. Knudsen

Experiment in independent study / Samuel Baskin

A comparison of knowledge of high school subjects possessed by college applicants and non-applicants / Eugene S. Edgington

College preparatory course work / Gerald H. Whitlock and James R. Montgomery

Study of undergraduates of uniformly high ability / Paul S. Burnham and Robert R. Ramsey

College scholastic progress patterns as predictive indices for counseling / F. Chandler Young

Predicting medical school success, a ten year study / Roger Gratwick, James Drasgow, and Bruce Stockin

Reasons for academic failure / Adele M. Miller

Developing uniform departmental grading standards in a university / O.F. Anderhalter

Three error sources in college grading / Bernard C. Kirby

Students' use of summer time at the University of Wisconsin / L.J. Lins ... [et al.]

Student reactions to University of Wisconsin summer sessions / L.J. Lins ... [et al.].

Notes:

Reprinted from the Journal of experimental education, v. 31, no. 2, December 1962.

Includes bibliographies.

OCLC:

392906