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IR&DS recently created a document, available on our website, to describe the policy the office uses when evaluating requests for institutional data from constituencies throughout the University. (more…)

Stanford plans to administer the Enrolled Student Survey, the Senior Survey, and the Class of 2012 Junior Exit Survey this spring. (more…)

This Summer IR&DS will launch two new surveys to assess Stanford’s incoming and sophomore classes.  These surveys are part of the University’s regular assessment schedule.  (more…)

IR&DS staff spend a lot of time surveying students and alumni to give decision-makers the information they need to evaluate their programs and the success of their students. This data is often quite sensitive so it doesn’t make its way into the hands of a broad audience. However, some of the data is not quite as sensitive, and is very interesting, so we would like to share some of this information. (more…)

As has been previously reported in this newsletter, Stanford is undertaking several assessment and evaluation projects in connection with our re-accreditation. These projects involve many studies, but in particular, the Class of 2012 is serving as the basis for data collection around the themes of our reaccreditation — “Away from Campus”, “Variations in Educational Environments”, and “Fundamental Skills”. This class (the current freshmen) have already taken a prefreshman survey, and the WASC accreditation project will continue to survey this class extensively over the next four years. (more…)