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Marc Parry – The Chronicle of Higher Education, September 22, 2010
Kennesaw State University’s new study about retention strategies in online education, soon to be published in the International Journal of Management in Education, suggests that “nothing worked” in reducing online students from dropping out of courses. But other commentators suggest that other measures that were not tried have proven successful in other settings.
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David Glenn - The Chronicle of Higher Learning, September 19, 2010
The Collegiate Learning Assessment test is gaining traction among many institutions as a better assessment of the sorts of skills and capacities that colleges really want students to walk away with…
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Gary Rice - University of Alaska , Anchorage
Dr. Gary Rice and his colleagues have developed a Student Learning Success Model which is designed to address the limitations of the traditional approach to student success metrics. Dr. Rice is keen for researchers and practitioners to review their site, and engage Dr. Rice and his team in discussions about ways this model is better than the traditional student success tracking currently being used.
Since 2008, Mt. Hood Community College has been working as an external beta-test institution for the UAA model. As was discussed at the AACC retreat in Washington, D.C. a few weeks ago, it is clear that we need better tools and models for tracking and intervention in student success.
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Terry O’Bannion – Inside Higher Ed, August 16, 2010
Terry O’Bannion explores interesting implications of the push for the so-called student success agenda. He calls for the agenda to achieve its potential to “open the doors to reform, serving as a trigger moment that can unleash pent-up frustrations with resistance and propel champions of reform to the forefront.” He also calls for the community colleges to address the question “To what end?” by not just accelerating completion but by re-conceiving the needs of 21st century employment and citizenship.
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Jennifer Gonzalez - The Chronicle of Higher Education, August 9, 2010
A pair of reports released on Monday by the Education Trust seek to reveal how disparate graduation rates are among white, black, and Hispanic students at hundreds of public and private universities, and call attention to individual institutions where the gaps are particularly large or small...
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EDUCAUSE - April, 2010
This article by EDUCAUSE explores some of the most pressing issues in the use of analytics to increase student success in higher education including: what are analytics, how they work, who's using them, why it is significant, some downsides of their use, where their use is going, and what are the implications for teaching and learning?
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Kimberly E. Arnold - EDUCAUSE Quarterly, Volume 33, Number 1, 2010
This article by Kimberly Arnold from the EDUCAUSE Quarterly provides a fuller description of the development of the Signals program at Purdue University, which enables faculty and students to receive real-time assessments, throughout the semester, of students’ performance in particular courses, normed against past experiences of successful students. The article discusses how the program has been received and perceived by students.
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Richard Vedder - The Chronicle of Higher Education, July 9, 2010
Today’s issue of The Chronicle of Higher Education contains a provocative article by Richard Vedder in which he cites the compelling findings of the latest report from the Delta Cost Project. In Vedder’s view, the conclusion must be that access, affordability and accountability – the new mantra of institutions – will not succeed unless they are accompanied by information, incentives and innovation. This is precisely the formulation presented in our Wiki “Reimagining Higher Education, Post Recession.” Check out both the article and our Wiki.
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Richard Vedder - The Chronicle of Higher Education, July 9, 2010
Today’s issue of The Chronicle of Higher Education contains a provocative article by Richard Vedder in which he cites the compelling findings of the latest report from the Delta Cost Project. In Vedder’s view, the conclusion must be that access, affordability and accountability – the new mantra of institutions – will not succeed unless they are accompanied by information, incentives and innovation. This is precisely the formulation presented in our Wiki “Reimagining Higher Education, Post Recession.” Check out both the article and our Wiki.
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