The Operational Mechanism of US Naval Academy's Institutional Research
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.
institutional researchthe US militaryUS Naval Academyoperational mechanism