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| Format: | Recurso educativo Open Access |
| Language: | en |
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2012
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| Online Access: | https://eric.ed.gov/?id=EJ988385 |
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Table of Contents:
- Selecting Peer Institutions with IPEDS and Other Nationally Available Data Carrigan, Sarah D. Higher Education Classification Institutional Research Professional Associations Benchmarking Comparative Analysis Statistics Libraries Human Resources Surveys The process of identifying and selecting peers for a college or university is one of this volume's definitions for "benchmarking": "a strategic and structured approach whereby an organization compares aspects of its processes and/or outcomes to those of another organization or set of organizations to identify opportunities for improvement." The higher education and institutional research literature is rich with descriptions of peer types, purposes, and data sources for peer selection, going back nearly 40 years. As a case study, this chapter will describe empirical data available in several national data sources that can be used to identify potential peers-based criteria important to the institution. These data sources include the Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS), the NCES Library Statistics program, the College and University Professional Association for Human Resources (CUPA-HR), and the Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education. Then the chapter will turn to describing the development of a web-based peer selection tool developed by the system office of the University of North Carolina, and will conclude with a description of the peer selection process executed by the University of North Carolina at Greensboro campus (UNCG). (Contains 2 tables.)