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The
Office of Institutional Research is
responsible for conducting research in order to provide senior administrators
and college committees with data that will support decision-making
and strategic planning. The office coordinates Earlham's participation
in surveys and distributes the results of those surveys. Responses
to inquiries from federal and state government, other colleges and
universities, education associations, and college guides publications
are coordinated by this office also.
Recent Research Activities In May, 2009, the Admitted Student Questionnaire (ASQ) was sent to all students admitted for the class entering Fall 2009. The ASQ is designed to find out what students really think of our programs, recruitment literature, financial aid packages, competition, and more. The Earlham College Fact Book was recently redesigned. It is now called Factbook: Data and Details. The new design starts with very broad, very simple queries. These are questions such as "Who are we" and "What do we do". Each query is then subdivided to arrive at a grouping of related charts, graphs and other data. Following Earlham's commitment to transparency, there’s hardly any information about Earlham College that can’t be found in this new Factbook. Factbook: Data and Details will be continually updated throughout the year and will no longer be available in paper format. All first-year students and seniors were once again invited to complete the NSSE survey in February, 2009. The results of prior year NSSE surveys can be found here. Alumni from the classes of 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001 and 2002 completed the Collegiate Results Instrument. This was part of a national project under the direction of Dr. Robert Zemsky and The Learning Alliance. The main focus of this survey was to assess learning outcomes of alumni. Alumni from the Classes of 1957, 1967, 1977, 1987, 1997 and 2002 were interviewed by a student research assistant. The purpose of this research project was three-fold: a) to identify possible gaps between the expectation and experiences at Earlham, b) to identify the strengths, weaknesses and changes that have taken place over time; to examine the influence of Earlham on alum, and finally c) to examine the issue of academic integrity. Details and findings. Each fall we administer the CIRP survey to all students entering Earlham for the first time. The CIRP survey is sponsored by the Higher Education Research Institute and the Cooperative Institutional Research Program, and is given to entering college students across the country.
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Earlham College · 801 National Road West · Richmond,
Indiana 47374-4095 |