Todd A. Petr

TL;DR: In this article, a series of three studies was conducted to assess whether there is a difference in the grade-point average and credits earned of student-athletes in their season of competition vs. their off-season.

TL;DR: The authors provide an historical overview of the National Collegiate Athletic Association's (NCAA) academic reform, with a particular focus on the empirical basis for the decisions made, and examine the types of information the NCAA has collected and used to make decisions about academic policy.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors describe how the NCAA uses academic data on high school and college student athletes and the national policies that have been framed by these data, and how these policies are framed by the data.

TL;DR: The importance of managing, archiving and potentially sharing large-scale data collections has become salient in many academic fields of study during the past decade as mentioned in this paper, despite some evidence showing that benefits accrue even to the researchers providing the data to others (Gleditsch, Metelits, & Strand, 2003).