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Effective Reporting: Providing Information Decision‹Makers Can Use

Presenter(s): Special Submission by the Association for Institutional Research (AIR) Jeff Seybert, Johnson County Community College

One of the most important challenges facing planners and institutional researchers involves finding ways to translate data into information that is readily accessible to and usable by institutional decision makers. The purpose of this workshop is to provide participants instruction in and practice with proven techniques for effective reporting. Topics include identifying audiences/clients for data/information, diagnosing clients' data/information needs and level of data sophistication, effective ways to present data/strengths/weaknesses of alternative approaches, and methods to facilitate both written and oral reports. Participants will work in teams on small-group exercises and are asked to bring examples of data and/or reports that have proved troublesome. Teams will use these materials in an exercise designed to apply the information provided in the workshop to improve actual examples of their own work. Participants receive the publication Effective Reporting. Jeff Seybert is the director of research evaluation and instructional development for Johnson County Community County and was an author of the AIR publication mentioned above.

This knowledge resource from SCUP is a preconference workshop presented at the Society's thirty-sixth annual, international conference and Expo, SCUP–36, in Boston, MA (USA), in July of 2001.

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