Establishment of an IR System for Institutional Decision-Making in Kyushu Institute of Technology
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.52731/lir.v003.116Keywords:
Decision-making, Educational Data, Information Support Cycle, Institutional Research for Education, VisualizationAbstract
The Kyushu Institute of Technology (Kyutech) has established a system that enables students and teachers to reflect on their learning history and complete self-evaluations using e-portfolio systems. However, institutional research (IR) for institutional decision-making has not yet been introduced, and an Educational IR Support Group was established in a learning-teaching center in FY2022 to strengthen IR for education. In addition to the e- portfolio systems, data have been accumulated in various other systems; however, these data are managed by different departments, and there is currently no system in place to utilize the data comprehensively. We introduced an extract transform load (ETL) tool to combine and analyze data and then began building an IR system for education. In this study, we first provide an overview of IR and explain how it should be conducted. Then, we introduce the IR system for education being promoted and finally describe future work.
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