Uses in Institutional Research
If you do analysis, reporting, or presentations on ACT data—especially on ACT-tested students who apply to or enroll at your institution—AIM can help.
ACT student records come to your campus in a fixed-length format that contains mostly coded values. When you import the raw score-sender records into AIM, the records are parsed into a relational database and lookup values are applied to all coded values so that the data elements are translated into understandable English terms.
Benefits for institutional research:
- The back-end data tables are accessible so you can work outside the AIM interface to develop your own queries, reports, and forms.
- You can also import other data tables, for example, campus data on student courses and grades or financial aid awards, and link them to the AIM data tables.
- AIM stores and displays all test scores for multiple score senders to your institution.
- AIM includes databases of every state, county, school district, and high school in the country, which allows users to report data for ACT-tested students by any of these four levels.
- AIM comes with a free database of every high school in the country you can use for other reporting purposes.
- The AIM User Guide contains full layout descriptions and all lookup values for the ACT student record.