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This workshop is designed for individuals interested in utilizing IPEDS data to examine and measure student and institutional success. The first half of the workshop explores the five IPEDS surveys that contain academic performance metrics (Completions, Graduation Rates, 200% Graduation Rates, Fall Enrollment, and Outcome Measures). Through group discussion, activities, and lectures, participants will learn what the measurements can – and cannot- tell us about student and institutional performance. The second half of the workshop will involve hands-on activities to work through a series of case studies based on real-life scenarios. Participants will identify the question being asked in each case study; determine the best metrics(s) to use to answer the question; extract data using the IPEDS tools; perform analyses; and present the data to answer the question. Participants will gain the knowledge needed to explore and answer questions at their institutions and organizations.

Self-studies serve a number of important purposes besides reaccreditation. Taking a deeper dive into your institutional effectiveness and improvement data regularly can help you and your team foster growth and opportunities that can direct future planning and resource allocations. Your self study is a requirement, but it’s also the perfect opportunity for meaningful reflection that can serve you before and after an accreditor comes knocking at your door. Through a communities of practice approach, attendees at this workshop will dig to identify their assessment and accreditation challenges, identify opportunities to make their self-study and review processes integrated and design a plan for merging improvement practices with other assessment initiatives across campus through methods outlined in a recent article for the Society of College and University Planning, such as agile wayfinding, linking outcomes and planning to evidence and designing workflows and review processes that support the culture for improvement at your institution. Presenter: Suzanne Carbonaro, Director of Academic Partnerships, HelioCampus