Analytics and Student Success:Research & Benchmarking

D. Christopher Brooks

Senior Research FellowEDUCAUSE@dcbphd

Jeffrey PomerantzSenior Research

AnalystEDUCAUSE

@jpom

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‘A slow sort of country!’ said the Queen. ‘Now, HERE, you see, it takes all the running YOU can do, to keep in the same place. If you want to get somewhere else, you must run at least twice as fast as that!’

--Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking-Glass#EBS

“Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?”“That depends a good deal on where you want to get to,” said the Cat.“I don’t much care where—” said Alice.“Then it doesn’t matter which way you go,” said the Cat.“—so long as I get somewhere,” Alice added as an explanation.“Oh, you’re sure to do that,” said the Cat, “if you only walk long enough.”

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Establishing benchmarks

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Examples of benchmarks

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Examples of benchmarksArizona State University

• Enhance university graduation rate to 75-80%

• 2014 enrollment = 83,301

• 75-80% = 62.5 – 66.5 K students between 2015-18

City University of New York

• 50% of entering students earn AA within 3 years

• 2012 cohort = 1,562

• 50% = 781 students by 2015

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Metrics

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Higher education digital capabilitiesConceptual map

Motivations for investing in learning analytics

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Uses of learning analytics data

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Maturity Indices measure the capability to deliver IT services and applications in a given area.

Deployment Indices measure stages of deployment for specific technologies and services, which are aggregated to track progress by area.

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Maturity Indices

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Student success maturity index: overall

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Maturity index composite scores by scale

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Student success maturity index: Process and policy

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Student success maturity index: Student success

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Detail of maturity index measures

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Deployment Indices

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Student success deployment

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Student success deployment

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Detail of deployment index measures

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Benchmarking using Core Data Service

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EDUCAUSE SERVICES

Tools for Better Decision Making

Technology Research in the Academic CommunityTrack student and faculty technologyneeds and experiences

Core Data ServiceCompare peer and aspirant datafor IT financials, staffing, and services

Benchmarking ServiceMeasure technical and cultural capabilityfor digital initiatives like student success

BENCHMARKING

ENHANCE DECISION MAKING | educause.edu/research

Campus leaders use EDUCAUSE assessment and benchmarking services to plan for and manage IT service delivery, financials, security and risk, technology-supported learning, and digital initiatives.

Learning Space Rating SystemMeasure how classroom design supportsand enables active learning

Information Security Program Assessment ToolEvaluate the maturity of yourinformation security program

IT Risk RegisterIdentify common risks to support yourstrategic IT risk-management program

ASSESSMENT

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The EDUCAUSE Benchmarking Service

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MI Composite Score

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MI & DI Overview

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Maturity Dimension Scores

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Maturity Item Detail

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Maturity Item Detail

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Deployment Item Detail

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“Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?”“That depends a good deal on where you want to get to,” said the Cat.“I don’t much care where—” said Alice.“Then it doesn’t matter which way you go,” said the Cat.“—so long as I get somewhere,” Alice added as an explanation.“Oh, you’re sure to do that,” said the Cat, “if you only walk long enough.”

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Jeffrey PomerantzSenior Research Analyst

EDUCAUSE @jpom

D. Christopher Brooks

Senior Research FellowEDUCAUSE

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