Wabash and Wabash-affiliated links
快播AV Institutional Review Board (IRB): The gatekeeper for all research with human participants at the College, including survey research. Those planning to conduct survey research MUST provide documentation to and obtain approval from the IRB.
Operated out of the Center of Inquiry in the Liberal Arts, HEDS is a consortium of colleges and universities that share institutional data. HEDS also administers several that Wabash periodically participates in.
Data sources
: By statute, American institutions of higher education must submit data via IPEDS to the Department of Education several times every year. These data are archived in the searchable IPEDS Data Center, which is an excellent resource for finding lots of historical data not only on single institutions, but on any group of institutions that you choose to define.
: Also a Department of Education site, this more intuitive interface provides access to the most recent official IPEDS data for an institution of your choosing.
: Part of the Department of Education’s College Affordability and Transparency Center. Provides a searchable database that compares an institution of your choice to national benchmarks on a number of metrics.
: Online tools for analysis and visualization of IPEDS data.
: A fascinating blog maintained by an administrator at DePaul University. An extensive archive of data-based explorations of a wide variety of timely higher education topics, complete with interactive tables and graphs.
Student Surveys
: The source for three annual surveys of Wabash students – the Freshman Survey, the Your First College Year Survey, and the College Senior Survey. Their page includes reports on national trends in their survey data, as well as a variety of special topics.
: The source for the NSSE survey, administered to freshmen and seniors at approximately 700 colleges and universities. Click for a page with links to a number of reports derived from their data.
Assessment and best practices
: An initiative whose purpose is to disseminate information about core learning outcomes and best practices in liberal education, as well as promote systematic assessment of students’ progress in achieving the goals of liberal education.
: An excellent resource for guidance in designing and conducting assessments in higher education.
Accreditation
: 快播AV's accrediting association.
Institutional research
: The major professional association for institutional researchers, with an extensive list of resources for IR work.