An Environment to Co-develop Informational Systems for IR in Japan

  • Tetsuya Oishi Kyushu University
  • Masao Mori Tokyo Institute of Technology
  • Eiichi Takata Kyushu University
Keywords: Institutional Research, Co-development System

Abstract

Most universities around the world must be accredited in order to assure and enhance the quality of education. Japanese universities also are under accreditation by the government as well. They must undergo certified evaluation and accreditation periodically, which is conducted by organizations certified by the Japanese Minister of Education. Accreditation committees evaluate every university based on the Standards for Evaluation and Accreditation by reviewing the self-assessment reports. That is why it is important for universities to pursuit their advantages and to create high quality self-assessment report. To present some advantages in the report, the university staffs have to obtain the evidences demonstrating some effects or outcomes. Moreover, Institutional Research (IR) is one of the important tools to obtain these evidences. Some systems for IR have been developed individually, but few of them were shared or co-developed with other universities. If many universities in Japan can utilize such systems, we can obtain various knowledges newly. In this paper, we explain not only some advantages of sharing or co-developing systems but also some problems.

References

Tetsuya Oishi, Masao Mori, Toshie Tanaka, and Eisuke Ito, “Cooperative Development and Individual Operation for Information Systems of IR in a Virtual Environment”, 2nd International Conference on Institutional Research and Institutional Management (IRIM 2013), 2013

Takuo Kominato, Hotoshi Sato, Masao Mori, and Eiichi Takata, “The role of IR in Dutch universities - contribution to internal quality assurance”, Japanese Association of Higher Education Research, 2009

Masyuki Kobayashi, “Gathering, analysis, and IR of students’ information in USA”, Between 2012 February and March, pp.22-23, 2012

“IR consortium”, http://www.irnw.jp/ (accessed 17th February, 2015).

Published
2016-03-30
Section
Technical Papers (Data Science & Institutional Research)