Improving Skills and Capabilities in the Conduct of Institutional Research in Postsecondary Educational Institutions

美国机构研究协会（AIR）提出了一项为期两年的计划，该计划提高了高等教育社区使用全国代表性抽样调查和其他国家科学基金会（NSF）和国家教育统计中心（NCES）数据集的能力，从而提高了高等教育决策的信息质量，以及这些决策的有效性。拟议的项目有三个组成部分，1)支持新的研究倡议，2)支持研究成果的传播，3)提供使用国家数据库的面对面培训。这些组成部分针对的是机构研究人员、教师和博士生，他们研究美国高等教育，包括科学、技术、工程和数学（STEM）的趋势，并利用国家数据为校园和国家高等教育实践提供信息。

The Association for Institutional Research (AIR) proposes a two-year continuation of a program that has increased the capacity of the postsecondary education community to use nationally representative sample surveys and other National Science Foundation (NSF) and National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) datasets, thereby improving the quality of information underlying decision making in postsecondary education, and the effectiveness of those decisions. The proposed program has three components that will 1) support new research initiatives, 2) support dissemination of findings, and 3) provide face-to-face training in the use of national databases. These components are targeted to institutional researchers, faculty, and doctoral students who conduct research about American postsecondary education including trends in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM)- and who use national data to inform campus and national higher education practices.