Institutional research: theory,methodology and mechanism
Institutional research is a self-questioning applied research,it aims at the university strategic layout,policy development and management decision-making demand,and based on the data or information collection and analysis of the university situation and report fact.Amercian institutional research chiefly focuses on four aspects: factual data collection of university operation,management issue diagnosis,research on specialistic decision-making and strategic management and layout.To make great progress in institutional research,we must not only acquire theory knowledge of higher education and the discipline development rule,master the specialty study technique,but also comply with the ethics of institutional research,cultivate the ability of communication.Nowadays,the power mechanism of institutional research in Chinese Mainland mainly lies in the bidirectional interaction of decision-making demand and brain-trust information.