美国海军军官学校院校研究运行机制探析

The Operational Mechanism of US Naval Academy’s Institutional Research

作为高等教育研究的重要实践领域,院校研究是聚焦本校实际开展的教育教学分析与咨询活动,对于改进军队院校内部管理决策和提升办学治校水平有着重要作用。以美国海军军官学校为案例,分析了该校院校研究的运行机制。总体呈现以下特点:基于行政建制的机构设置、基于校本实践的研究导向、基于数据驱动的研究范式、覆盖多元需求的研究范畴。在此基础上,结合实际给出了加强我军院校研究的思考。

As an important field of higher education research,institutional research(IR)refers to the institution-focused analysis and consultancy on teaching and learning,and plays a crucial role in improving governance within and performance of a military academy.This paper takes IR in the US Naval Academy as an example and explores the operational mechanism.It shows that its IR operational mechanism is featured as such:an administrative organizational construct,an institution-focused research orientation,a data-driven research paradigm and multiple research scopes.On this basis,thoughts have been given in an effort to help build a stronger IR component for military academies in China.