Data warehousing: a tool for the outcomes assessment process

Author

Ingham, Joanne

Author_Institution

Polytech. Univ., Brooklyn, NY, USA

Volume

43

Issue

2

fYear

2000

fDate

5/1/2000 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

132

Lastpage

136

Abstract

To meet EC-2000 assessment criteria, information from all university constituents needs to be routinely collected and tracked longitudinally. Typically, one finds that even when the information exits, it is located across several decentralized data bases run by different units. Additionally, many universities are either running older mainframe legacy systems or are in the process of making the transition to newer systems. These conditions make it difficult to collect information regarding students and their performance throughout their undergraduate career and after. Data warehousing is a system of organizing institutional data that can support the assessment process. This paper describes one university´s experience with the development and management of a data warehouse through the support of the National Science Foundation Gateway Coalition

Keywords

data warehouses; educational administrative data processing; engineering education; ABET EC-2000 assessment criteria; National Science Foundation Gateway Coalition; data warehousing; educational ADP; outcomes assessment process; student information collection; undergraduate career; university; Chemical engineering; Continuous improvement; Data warehouses; Electrical engineering computing; Engineering profession; Information retrieval; Organizing; Pattern analysis; Physics computing; Warehousing;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Education, IEEE Transactions on

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0018-9359

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/13.848064

Filename

848064