CAIR 2007 Conference : Papers and Presentations
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Keynote Addresses
- Keynote Panel: Enrollment Planning for Demographic Change
Sam Agronow, Panel Convener/Moderator – Introduction
Patrick Perry – The View from the CCC's
Marsha Hirano-Nakanishi – Change and the California State University
Nina Robinson – UC Long-Range Enrollment Planning 2007-08
Mark Pavelchak – Trends in Number of High School Graduates: Selected States - David Shulenburger
Accountability/Improvement/Information - Ralph Wolff
Charting the Future of Accountability: Is There a Middle Way?
Member Presentations
- Serge Herzog
Financial Aid and Student Retention: Gauging Causality in Discrete-Choice Propensity Score-Matching Models (CAIR 2007 Best Presentation Award)
Diversity and Educational Benefits: Moving Beyond Subjective Survey-Based Data - Sam Agronow
Prediction of College GPA from New SAT Test Scores – A First Look - Elizabeth Berkes
Undergraduate Research Participation at UC Berkeley - Steve Chatman
Listening to Students' Advice – An Analyst's Story About the Results and Challenges of Using Open-Ended Items on a Large Scale - Bob Cox
Clearinghouse Rock - Eden Dahlstrom
"Other Duties as Assigned": Turning Research into Results – Whose Responsibility is it Anyway? - Eileen Eckert
Authentic Accountability - Philip Garcia
How to Assess Expected Value Added: The CLA Method
(includes comment by Richard J. Shavelson) - Bill Grimes and Sam Ballard
Assessment/Accountability: Empowering the Campus Stakeholder - Cel Johnson
Workshop: Better Than Ever: The Revised IPEDS Peer Analysis System - Paula Harmer, EnHsien Liu, and LaMesha Carter
An Outcomes Based Assessment Database: Institutional Strategies for Making Decisions on What to Collect - Richard Laramy, Jim DePaepe, and Nick Lockard
Using Accreditation Self-Study Results to Better Understand Student from Recruit through Alumnus - Karen McClendon and Eileen Eckert
Grades as Documentation of SLO Achievement: Constructing an Outcomes-Based Grading System - William D. Murry
Student Perceptions of College Costs in Higher Education: Contributing Factors to a Value Added Proposition - Rosaleen H. Ryan
One College's Travails in Understanding Workforce Needs
Paper: Employer Training Needs Survey - Brian Stern
The Quest for the Perfect Indicator - Alice van Ommeren and Willard Hom
An Evaluation of California Community College Transfer Rates
Handout: Transfer Rates by College (2000-01 FTF cohort followed to 2005-06) - Jing Wang and Jonathan Shiveley
Assessment: There's More to Research than Data Collection - Terrence Willett
The Difference Between Knowing the Path and Walking the Path: Predicting Student Persistence in Science from Community College to the University - Paula Zeszotarski
UC Campus Climate: Findings from UCUES 2006