美国高校如何培养院校研究专业人员——基于课程视角的调查分析

On the Training of Institutional Research Professionals in American Colleges and Universities

基于美国院校研究会官网的17所高校院校研究证书项目课程信息的研究结果显示,美国高校院校研究专业人员培养,在证书授予上,给学习合格者颁发培训证书或学位证书;在教育目标上,强调对程序性知识的运用与分析;在课程设置上,大多采用"必修+选修"套餐式结构;在课程内容上,重视方法、技术、政策与评估等实务;在教学方式上,广泛运用在线教学平台。这些对我国高校培养院校研究专业人员具有参考价值,对院校研究专业课程建设有启发意义。

This paper analyzes the ever-growing trend of professional training in this field in accordance with the curricular data collected from 17 graduate certificate programs in institutional researches.With a focus on the program structure and curriculum design,this paper offers an analysis of institutional research training programs provided by American colleges and universities from the following five perspectives：degrees granted,educational objectives,curriculum designs,course contents,and instructional methods.Despite the differences among those programs,we discovered that there are certain commonalities shared by those programs：1）non-degree or degree certificates are offered as qualifications;2）institutional research training often emphasizes the use and analysis of procedural knowledge;3）curriculum is comprised of compulsory and optional courses;4）courses focus on analytical methods（both quantitative and qualitative）,educational policy evaluations,and program assessment;5）online instruction platforms are widely used;It is believed that this analysis can provide valuable implications for Chinese colleges and universities to train institutional research professionals,and especially for developing our professional courses in institutional researches.