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CAIR 2013 Conference: Papers and Presentations

Keynote Addresses

Elise Miller
“What’s Next for Higher Education and How Can IR Be a Part of the Transformation?”
Richard Winn
“The Use and Abuse of Metrics in Accreditation”
Barbara Beno
“The Role of Data in Demonstrating Institutional Quality”
Hans Johnson
“Performance Measures in California Higher Education”
Patrick Perry, Phil Garcia, Chris Furgiuele
“Using Wages for Outcomes in Higher Education”
Clay Gregory
“Use of Data in Napa Valley Tourism”

Conference Sessions

Wednesday, November 20th

Gerald Thrush and Patricia Camberos
Real-Time Learner Outcome Feedback: Web Mash-ups Made Simple
Charles Hatcher and Tongshan Chang
Undergraduate Student Persistence and Completion: Do Pell Grants Matter
Jing Wang and Jonathan Shiveley
Student Behaviors in Relation to Majors and Impact on Graduation
KC Greaney and Ryan Fuller
Where Do They Go, What Do They Do, and How Much Do They Earn? Tracking the Employment Outcomes of California Community College Graduates
Neil Patel, Juan Ramirez and Alyssa De Santiago
Assessing Institutional Learning Outcomes: Process, Application, and Results
Ken Sorey, Mallory Newell and Rick Fillman
Using Multiple Measures to Predict Student Placement in College Courses and Predictive Tools to Inform Placement Practices
Janice Love and Kelly Wahl
University of California Undergraduate Experience Survey (UCUES): Self-Assessed Academic Skills vs. Time-to-Degree
Emily Shindledecker and Tanner Carollo
Reducing Time to Undergraduate Degree: Targeted Intervention Strategies
Meredith Czerwinski
The Course Completion Survey: From Build to Implementation
Ward Headstrom
Using a random forest model to predict enrollment
Jonathan Shiveley and Nancy Hardy
Roadblocks to Graduation and the Super Senior Phenomenon
Steve Chatman and Gary Lowe
Which Comparative Faculty Salary Should I Use?
Daylene Meuschke, the RP Group
A Dialogue About Establishing Course Prerequisites and The Role of Institutional Research Offices
Shana Ruggenberg and Serhii Kalynovs’kyi
Using Data Mining to Model Student Success for the Purpose of Refining Nursing Program Admission Criteria

Thursday, November 21st

Renate Otterbach and William Murry
Affective and competency based perceptual indicators: Exploring deeper implications for student perceived satisfaction with their college experience
Ed Sullivan and Afshin Karimi
CSU Fullerton’s Student Success Dashboard
John Hofmann
Using Ishikawa’s Fishbone Pictogram to Understand and Address Student Attrition
Bob Pacheco, Marybeth Beuchner and Daylen Meuscke
Measuring Student Success and Achievement: The Challenge of Finding and Using Metrics
Katherine McLain and Brad Brazil
Using Drupal to Support Program Review
Michael Le and Dmitri Rogulkin
Visual Analytics Utilizing Tableau Interactive Dashboards
Michael Wrona, Sutee Sujitparapitaya and Heather Brown
Periodic Reviews of the Institutional Research Office and WASC CFR 4.2
John Pryor and Erin Knepler
The Economic Story of California: How CIRP Data Can Inform Policy
Corrie Potter
Item Order Effects in Student Surveys: How Bad are They and Is Randomization the Answer?
John Stanley and Yang Zhang
A Multi-Year Analysis of NSSE Data Using ANOVA
Paula Krist
Leading the Way for Non-Academic Unit Review
Kathy Booth and Ryan Fuller
The Missing Piece: Quantifying Non-Completion Pathways to Success
Afshin Karimi, Ed Sullivan, James Hershey and Sunny Moon
A Two-Step Data Mining Approach for Graduation Rates
Kristina Cragg
Examining the Online Student Experience: Results using the YFCY-OL
Vincent Novack, Stacie Bauerle and Ryan Weitzman
The Persistent Achievement Gap: When and Why Underrepresented Minorities Fall Behind
Erin Hansman, Rebecca Woodg, Amanda Saw, Jarisia Latham and Holly Hoffman
Focusing Your Efforts on Tasks that Matter
Bryce Mason and Ryan Johnson
Fixed-effects regression for within-subjects designs: Causal effects of online course evaluations
Bracken Dailey
Safe Sailing Through the FERPA Triangle
Serge Herzog
Gauging the Impact of Academic Support Programs: A Quasi Experimental Design Comparing Propensity Score Weighted Samples with Naïve Estimators
Cathy Hasson and Daniel Miramontez
Implementing a Research Infrastructure that Builds Information Capacity
Kristina M. Cragg
IPEDS Update: Current Information and Upcoming Change
Robert Daly (CAIR 2013 Best Presentation Award)
Six Stages of Growth for the IR Professional
Jacqueline Honda
Mentorship for New IR Professionals

Friday, November 22nd

Amita Naganand
Degree Completion, Time to Degree and Credit Accumulation: The Case of California Transfer Students
Brian Cook and Corrie Potter
Doctoral Program Career Outcomes: Lessons from Using the Internet to Track Alumni Employment Data
Yang Yang and Tongshan Chang
Are undergraduate students disengaged before they drop out?
Ryan Johnson and Daniel Byrd
Building Analytical Tools With Nested Excel Functions
Stephen C. Maack
Performance Funding – A National Perspective
Vijayalakshmi Sampath
Benchmarking using the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center Data Snapshots and StudentTracker Service
Robert Cox
Student Choice and Course Enrollment Planning
Jana Noel and David Earwicker
Documenting a High Impact Institutional Practice: The Case of Community Engagement at 52 U.S. Institutions
Jenna Allen and Sereeta Alexander
How Cal Answers (UC Berkeley’s Data Warehouse) Transforms Institutional Research through Decision Support
Brianna Moore
Clouding Transparency: The Drawbacks of Using Average Net-Price for Accountability and Decision Making
Gregg Thomson, Carole Wolf and Chris Procello
Peer Comparisons and Graduation Rates: Accountability, Transparency, and Local Commitment
John Briggs
Implementation of Online Student Evaluation of Teachers