Research on effective use of information of students through Institutional Research as seen from improvement case

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The purpose of this research was to examine cases and models of effective use of students' information (collection and analysis of data, development of improvement plan) thorough Institutional Research, and to describe the current condition of information management and challenges of introducing IR in Japanese Higher Education. As a result, this research yields the following findings. First, key performance indicators are used for developing improvement plan and evaluating IR activities in the case of institution-centered IR. Second, particularly about education, IR functions in department are closely related with activities of middle organizations which are situated between government and individual institutions. Therefore, IR activities in department are defined by Quality Assurance of Subject Learning partly. Third, there are some challenges which are related to internal regulations about information management, information format, and organizational culture, to introduce IR in Japanese Higher Education Institutions.