This Week In IPEDS (TWII)

Outcome Measures (OM) Clarifications and FAQs

NCES is providing updated guidance and FAQs related to the new Outcome Measures (OM) survey component, which is being incorporated into IPEDS beginning in 2015-16.

• “Any Award” v. “Award from Your Institution”
  In the past, there has been incorrect guidance that the award means any award conferred from any institution. To clarify, Outcome Measures will ask all degree-granting institutions to report on the awards conferred by the reporting institution. To view the Outcome Measures survey form, which clearly stipulates the award conferred by your institution, please visit the 2015-16 Survey Materials: https://surveys.nces.ed.gov/ipeds/VisIndex.aspx
• Outcome Measures FAQs
  Based on several questions received from the IPEDS data reporting community, NCES has developed FAQs for the Outcome Measures survey component. Visit http://nces.ed.gov/ipeds/Section/Data_tip_sheet to download the FAQs, or find them under the 2015-16 Survey Materials.

TRP Suggestions Posted

Suggestions from the most recent meeting of the IPEDS Technical Review Panel are posted at https://edsurveys.rti.org/IPEDS_TRP/Default.aspx and are currently open for comment. Suggestions are from Technical Review Panel #47, “Clarifying Study Abroad Enrollment,” that was held June 23 and 24, 2015, in Washington DC. Comments from interested parties should be sent to Janice Kelly-Reid, IPEDS Project Director at RTI International, at ipedsTRPcomment@rti.org, and are due by September 10, 2015.

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