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OFFICE OF INSTITUTIONAL RESEARCH & EVALUATIONANNUAL REPORT 2006-2007

Submitted byDawn Geronimo Terkla, Ed.D.

Associate Provost, Institutional Research, Evaluation & AssessmentJuly 7, 2007

The 2006-2007 was an action-packed, productive year. This is evidenced by the number and diversity of

the projects completed by members of the OIR&E team. I am particularly pleased with the fact that OIR&E was

once again able to provide support and services to every school (Arts & Sciences, Cummings, Dental, Engineering,

Fletcher, Friedman, Medical, Sackler, and Tisch College) and division (Advancement, External Relations, Finance,

Human Resources, Operations, and UIT) within the university. A considerable amount of time and attention was

devoted to supporting several major initiatives: the National Research Council (NRC) Assessment of Research &

Doctoral Programs, the Carnegie Elective Classification on Community Engagement, preparation for the NEASC 5th

year review, AS&E Retention Task Force, A&S Strategic Plan Implementation Review Task Force, the Provosts

International website, the Engineering Educational Objectives and Outcomes Assessment Committee, the TCSVM

Outcomes Assessment Committee, the Colonial Group, and the Tufts Open Courseware project. Requests for

services and support continued to grow. The number of surveys designed, administered, and analyzed increased

by approximately 10 percent. OIR&E received IRB approval to administer 94 surveys: 74 web-based instruments,

10 web/paper instruments, and 10 paper only surveys. Members of the staff provided evaluation guidance and

support to several faculty members as they prepared grant proposals. In addition, OIR&E processed over 100

independent data requests. Following is a sample of the many on-going activities and new initiatives that were

undertaken during the 2006-2007 academic year.

RESEARCH ACTIVITIES

Numerous projects were undertaken to assess various aspects of the undergraduate program, as well as to

provide support to the graduate and professional schools. Following is a partial list of projects:

AdmissionsAS&E Undergraduate Accepted Applicant Matriculant Survey & analysisAS&E Undergraduate Acceptd Applicant Non-Matriculant Survey & analysisAS&E Undergraduate Inquiry Survey & analysisDental Matriculating Student Survey & analysisDental Non-Matriculating Student Survey & analysisFletcher Inquiry Student Survey


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Fletcher Matriculating Student Survey & analysisFletcher Non-Matriculating Student Survey & analysisGSAS & GSOE Non-Matriculating Student survey & analysisGSAS & GSOE Matriculating Student survey & analysisMedical School Admissions Survey

Alumni Surveys & AnalysisBSOTCummingsDentalEngineeringFrances SternMedical post grad year 1

EvaluationsBringing Engineers Into New Disciplines/BEND (NIDDK)Biomedical Research Experiences for Engineering Majors/BREEM (NIGMS)Howard Hughes Medical Institute Professors Award David Walt (HHMI)Human Resources Leadership Training ProgramInterdisciplinary Research Training for Veterinarians (NIDDK)

KaleidoscopeProvost FellowsTisch Citizen & Public Service Scholars ProgramTufts OpenCourse WareTufts Post-Baccalaureate ResearchEducation Program/PREP (NIGMS)The Tufts Program in Evidence-based, Complementary & Alternative Medicine (NIH/NCCAM)TUSK: Tools to Integrate and Share Health Knowledge (NLM)

Student Experience StudiesAS&E Alcohol Survey & analysisAS&E First Year Drug & Alcohol Survey & analysisAS&E First Year Orientation Survey & analysisAS&E Retention Study

AS&E Residential Life Satisfaction Survey & analysisAS&E Senior Survey & analysisAS&E Summer Scholars ProgramA&S Pre-major Advising Survey & analysisA&S Sophomore Experience Survey & analysisCummings First Year Student Academic Climate Survey & analysisCummings Entering Student Survey &analysisCummings Exit Survey & analysisEngineering First Year Pre-major Advising Survey & analysisEngineering Sophomore Experience Survey & analysisFletcher First Year Survey & analysisFletcher Exiting Student Survey & analysisGSAS & GSOE Exit Survey & analysis

Tisch College Civic & Political Attitudes Survey

Student Services & Academic Programs:AS&E Analysis of AMCAS dataAS&E Health Services Patient Satisfaction Survey & analysisCummings Third & Fourth Year Outcomes ExamsDental Post-Treatment Plan Analysis


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Administrative support:Administrative Council SurveyAS&E Student Services Customer Satisfaction SurveyCummings Adventures in Vet Medicine Alumni SurveyCummings Equine Ventilation Survey & analysisDental Patient Satisfaction Survey & analysisDental Strategic Planning Survey & analysisDigital Repository Service Survey & analysisDining Services -- Student Satisfaction Survey & analysisDining Services Faculty & Staff Catering Survey & analysisDining Services Grafton Dining Survey & analysisE-News Customer Satisfaction Survey & analysisFaculty Salary comparative analysisHuman Resources - Tisch Library Teamwork SurveyMail Services Student & Staff Surveys & analysisPublic Safety - multiple surveys & analysisTCCS SIS Customer Satisfaction Survey & analysisUniversity Dashboard

UNIVERSITY-WIDE COORDINATION ACTIVITIES& SHORT TERM PROJECTS

Throughout the year, the office has been called upon to provide both the coordination and collection of

university-wide level information. Both internal and external constituencies use this information. Activities that fall

under this category include:

Preparation & distribution of the Fact Book, Fast Facts(mini fact book), andFacts & Figures Web pagesAmerican Association of University Professors Annual Survey of Faculty CompensationsCollege Sports ProjectCollege & University Personnel Association Faculty Salary SurveyNational Research Council (NRC) Assessment of Research & Doctoral ProgramNew England Association of Schools & Colleges (NEASC)

U.S. Department of Education IPEDS (Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System) data collection

A variety of short-term projects were completed for several organizations within the Tufts community.

These included providing responses to an ever increasing number of informational surveys, providing evaluation

and survey design consultation, gathering comparative and/or longitudinal information for a number of individuals or

offices including, but not limited to, the President, the Provost; the Executive Vice President; various offices within

Arts & Sciences; the School of Engineering; Information Technology; University Advancement; Alumni Relations;

Public Relations, Operations; the Budget office; and several academic departments.

There is institutional research representation on the following university committees: Academic Council,

Administrative Council, Provosts Council, University Committee on Teaching and Faculty Development, Medford

Campus IRB, AS&E Admissions & Financial Aid Committee, AS&E Retention Task Force, Engineering Educational


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Objectives and Outcomes Assessment Committee, TCSVM Outcomes Assessment Committee, TUSDM Outcomes

Assessment Committee, Tufts Open Courseware Steering Committee, and NEASC 5th

Year Review Steering

Commitee. In addition, I serve as the Universitys accreditation liaison officer to the New England Association of

Schools and Colleges.

Members of the staff took advantage of a number of professional development opportunities throughout the

past year. Susan Storm attended several Tufts training courses (Thinwire, Data Warehouse, Kenexa-HR), as well

as participating in the Electronic Requisitioning focus group. Thomas McGuinness attended the Business of

Project Management Courseoffered by UIT training. Lisa OLeary, Heather Roscoe and I presented papers at both

the North East Association of Institutional Research (NEAIR) and Association for Institutional Research (AIR)

conferences. Stephanie Topping participated in a 2-part webinar series sponsored by AIR: Correlation and

Regression and Analysis of Variance. In addition, she attended the Tufts datawarehouse training session. Lisa &

I, along with Tisch College staff, conducted a workshop entitled A Mixed Method Approach to Measuring Civic

Learning at the AA&CU Academic Renewal Conference. Additionally, we presented a paper entitled Tufts OCW:

The Users Perspectives at the Open Education 2006 Conference at the Center for Open Sustainable Learning in

September in Logan, Utah. Lisa also attended the AEA/CDC Summer Evaluation Institute, held in Atlanta, GA in

June.

Lisa and I had two articles published: "Civic Engagement Assessment: Linking Activities to Attitudes" (with

N. Wilson & A. Diaz) in the May/June issue of Assessment Updateand Civic Engagement: A Study of Changes in

College (with N. Wilson & A. Diaz) in the summer 2007 volume of Academic Exchange Quarterly. In addition, I

co-edited with Larry Litten a New Directions in Institutional Research monograph on sustainability (forthcoming). I

continue to serve as a pre-major academic advisor.

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