JOB DUTIES OF INSTITUTIONAL RESEARCHERS IN SOUTHERN TWO-YEAR COLLEGES
Titel:
JOB DUTIES OF INSTITUTIONAL RESEARCHERS IN SOUTHERN TWO-YEAR COLLEGES
Auteur:
Rowh, Mark C.
Verschenen in:
Community college journal of research and practice
Paginering:
Jaargang 14 (1990) nr. 1 pagina's 35-44
Jaar:
1990-01
Inhoud:
The objective of this study was to determine the types of duties being performed by institutional researchers in Southern two-year colleges. Research was based on a mail survey submitted to all two-year colleges accredited by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools. Of 326 colleges surveyed, a total of 301 (92 percent) responded. Respondents completed a survey designed with the assistance of a panel of experts. This included a section posing statements about institutional research tasks in a discrepancy model, and a second section consisting of statements about the overall research function organized in a five-part, Likert-type scale The survey found that less than half of Southern two-year colleges employed an institutional researcher on a half-time or greater basis. It also identified a number of discrepancies in the job duties now being performed by institutional researchers and the duties those individuals felt they should be performing Among those duties which should not be performed were external reporting, program supervision, grant development, and clerical functions. Tasks identified as needing to be performed included increased research project completion, academic program evaluation, planning studies, outcomes assessment, financial analysis, and policy development
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