Office of Institutional Research (OIR)

The Office of Institutional Research (OIR) at Golden West College (GWC) helps students be more successful and get more value out of their educational experience by helping students, faculty, staff, managers, and administrators make more informed decisions. This decision-support model requires the use of a variety of data collection techniques including, but not limited to, database extracts, tests, surveys, and interviews. Successful data analysis requires the researcher to be cognizant of the decision to be made, the data source, appropriate statistical techniques, the intended audience, and the available timeline. With these issues in mind, it is the goal of OIR to always produce reports or information tools that are timely, accurate, readable, objective, and useful. It is also the goal of the OIR to continually improve its ability to produce effective information through the utilization of appropriate technology.

Existing processes for which the OIR is responsible for providing information include:

• College assessment, planning and budgeting
  • Program review
  • Enrollment management
  • Facilities utilization
• Curriculum management
• Accreditation
• Faculty/administrator evaluations
• Matriculation
  • Identifying and describing the students served by Matriculation
  • Ensuring that tests are used in a fair and valid manner
  • Measuring the impact of matriculation on students and programs
  • Monitoring student performance related to courses and curriculum

Contact

Our phone number is (714) 895-8727

15744 Golden West Street
P.O. Box 2748
Huntington Beach, CA 92647-2748

The Office of Institutional Research is located upstairs in the Admissions Building rooms 202 A-B and 203.

Research Team

GWC at a Glance

Golden West College, with a fall enrollment of approximately 12,000 students, is one of three colleges serving residents of the Coast Community College District in Orange County, California. We are located in Huntington Beach, about 40 miles southeast of Los Angeles.

GWC Enrollment Facts - Fall 2006

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Office of Institutional Goals and Activities 2004 - 2005

College goals are denotes by [#]

Goal 1: Complete required annual Matriculation studies [2.4, 2.6, 2.9, 4, 6]

Activity 1 -- Identify and describe students served by matriculation.
Activity 2 -- Ensure that tests are used in a fair and valid manner.
Activity 3 -- Measure the impact of matriculation on students and programs.
Activity 4 -- Monitor student performance related to courses and curriculum.

Goal 2: Provide reliable, valid, and timely data to support institutional planning and evaluation. [1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 2, 3, 6]

Activity 1 -- Assist in the design and implementation of program review processes.
Activity 2 -- Provide data to support the program review process.
Activity 3 -- Assist in providing data for research on student usage and impact analysis.
Activity 4 -- Develop and report measures of institutional effectiveness.

Goal 3: Develop and strengthen the role of the Research Office. [1, 2, 3, 5, 6]

Activity 1 -- Continually improve the quality and accessibility of research reports.
Activity 2 -- Promote campus-wide understanding of the role of research at GWC.
Activity 3 -- Attend professional development events conducted by the Research and Planning Group.