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Lehigh University’s data strategy: A roadmap to a university’s analytics transformation

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Topic and problem As the Vice Provost for Institutional Research and Strategic Analytics at Lehigh University, I oversee institutional research, data analytics, and data governance initiatives. In 2017, I participated in a collaborative effort across the University to assess and identify data systems and analytics capability gaps.

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Reality Is Messy, Labs Aren’t: How to Make Research-Backed Education Work

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For example, research in educational psychology often is characterized by efforts to investigate isolated interventions, in carefully controlled laboratory conditions, under short time frames, using motivated participants and focusing on learning outcomes like retention.

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Improve the precision of student enrollment forecasting

EAB

Hanover Research’s (2011) report mentions that several high school achievement factors (GPA, SAT/ACT test scores, high school rank) are among the most consistent predictors of retention. I also considered whether to include some form of measure of student quality.