From Chaos to Systematization: A Journey to Construct the Institutional Research System

摘要

The role of institutional research (IR) in higher education is an analyst to provide analyze data to management for decision making. Though, a complete IR system is a challenge to schools, including what the main target to construct the system, the data that system contained, the method of the database constructed and how to maintain the system. This study is using a particularly complicated university, hardness for its original systems and complex multi-student category, as an example which constructed the IR system, for the system constructing, it had experienced the 4 stages, from data inventory, data warehousing, data cleaning to data analysis.