Gold in them there hills? : Extracting and using data from existing sources

Yorke, Mantz (2006) Gold in them there hills? : Extracting and using data from existing sources. Tertiary Education and Management, 12 (3). pp. 201-213. ISSN 1358-3883

Abstract

Data residing in institutional and system-level record systems are often under-exploited as a resource for decision-making. Whilst the data might neither have the characteristics, nor meet the quality demanded, of formal research projects, their relative availability offers advantages to the policy-maker and practitioner. This article illustrates with a number of examples the potential of available data for informing policy and practice at different levels within an education system.