Using Data to Improve Higher Education : Research, Policy and Practice / / edited by Maria Eliophotou Menon, Dawn Geronimo Terkla, Paul Gibbs.

• Superior document: Global Perspectives on Higher Education
• HerausgeberIn: Menon, Maria Eliophotou.; Terkla, Dawn Geronimo.; Gibbs, Paul.
• Place / Publishing House: Rotterdam : : SensePublishers :, Imprint: SensePublishers,, 2014.
• Year of Publication: 2014
• Edition: 1st ed. 2014.
• Language: English
• Series: Global Perspectives on Higher Education
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (260 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.

In recent decades, higher education systems and institutions have been called to respond to an unprecedented number of challenges. Major challenges.

Table of Contents

Preliminary Material / Maria Eliophotou Menon , Dawn Geronimo Terkla and Paul Gibbs -- Introduction / Maria Eliophotou Menon -- Informing or Distracting? Guiding or Driving? The Use of Performance Indicators in Higher Education / John Taylor -- Opportunities and Barriers to Effective Planning in Higher Education / Richard A. Voorhees and John D. Cooper -- Using Data to Inform Institutional Decision Making at Tufts University / Dawn Geronimo Terkla , Jessica Sharkness , Lauren M. Conoscenti and Christina Butler -- Student Feedback on the Experience of Higher Education / James Williams -- Higher Education Brands and Data / Chris Chapleo and Peter Reader -- Evaluating Students’ Quality of Academic Life / Eugénia Pedro , Helena Alves and João Leitão -- The Returns to Investment in Higher Education / George Psacharopoulos -- Investigating Students’ Expectations of the Economic Returns to Higher Education / Maria Eliophotou Menon -- Determinants of the Gender Gap in Annual Earnings among College Graduates / Marilou Ioakimidis and Joop Hartog -- Higher Education and Equality of Opportunity / Sofia N. Andreou and Christos Koutsampelas -- Student Data Privacy and Institutional Accountability in an Age of Surveillance / Paul Prinsloo and Sharon Slade -- Privacy, Analytics and Marketing Higher Education / Paul Gibbs -- Using Data and Experts to Make the Wrong Decision / Ian R. Dobson -- Conclusions and Policy Implications / Paul Gibbs -- Contributors / Maria Eliophotou Menon , Dawn Geronimo Terkla and Paul Gibbs -- Index / Maria Eliophotou Menon , Dawn Geronimo Terkla and Paul Gibbs -- Global Perspectives on Higher Education / Maria Eliophotou Menon , Dawn Geronimo Terkla and Paul Gibbs.