Based on panel-data analysis using detailed university-level data on academic spinoffs, we identify three classes of institutionally-defined rules that can motivate faculty members to establish a spinoff company.
After the contest began in February, schools submitted applications to show their commitment to preparing students for college and careers, including data on academic performance and — in a feature familiar to college applicants — four essay questions.
In their study, published in the current issue of Psychological Science in the Public Interest, the researchers tried to quantify the improvement by reviewing relevant data on academic hiring and promotion, mainly from the biennial Survey of Doctorate Recipients conducted by the National Science Foundation.
Data on academic cheating can be alarming.
Data on academic achievement (students admission scores, the subjects they were enrolled in, exams, qualifications, etc).
Data on academic actors were not systematically collected, but some observations from interviews and documents are given below.
Out of the 120 faculty members who were leaving, data on academic rank were obtained for 106 of them.
Data on academic works were extracted, results coded according to eleven stated federal policy priority themes, and analyzed descriptively.
Finally, data collection on academic information from teachers and how the SPARK project works with the academic community to gain information on school functioning for youth in the project is described.
New data sources and techniques, including text-processing programs and data on the academic and professional background of managers, may help in this endeavor.
