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http%3a%2f%2fwww.edu1world.org%2fPublicForumActionAnalytics%2f32208 “What’s New in Analytics?” - Analytics on Work and Employability tweetmeme_source

“What’s New in Analytics?” - Analytics on Work and Employability

by AA CoP Administrator - Strategic Initiatives Inc. on 10/27/2010 03:57 PM   0 comments , 619 views
Categories: Vendor Applications/Tools, Vendor Case Studies, Employability, Data Mining
Custom Topics: educause, donald norris, lee ramsayer, monster.com

Donald M. Norris

 

To complete the interview series begun at EDUCAUSE, we are progressively conducting a series of conversations with vendors and practitioners to describe the leading edge of analytics products and practice that affect higher education.  This will result in a white paper later this fall.

 

One of the important elements of Action Analytics is that the focus has expanded beyond traditional higher education in two important directions: 1) the scope of comparative analytics has expanded to consider the full pre-K-20 continuum and 2) analytics that illustrate the linkage between learning and work and employability are increasingly sought after...

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http%3a%2f%2fwww.edu1world.org%2fPublicForumActionAnalytics%2f28774 Calculating How Much “Education Pays” tweetmeme_source

Calculating How Much “Education Pays”

by AA CoP Administrator - Strategic Initiatives Inc. on 09/22/2010 12:36 PM   0 comments , 268 views
Categories: Employability, Family Finances, Affordability
Custom Topics: college board, inside higher ed, allie grasgreen, education pays

Allie Grasgreen – Inside Higher Ed, September 21, 2010

 

The third installment of the College Board’s “Education Pays” series of reports, to be released today, concludes that earning a postsecondary degree still holds great benefits to individuals and society as a whole, but critics still question whether the reports take into account the true costs and burdens taken on by those who choose to earn degrees.

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http%3a%2f%2fwww.edu1world.org%2fPublicForumActionAnalytics%2f23988 Top Gap Closers: Some Public Four-Year Colleges and Universities Have Made Good Progress in Closing Graduation-Rate Gaps tweetmeme_source

Top Gap Closers: Some Public Four-Year Colleges and Universities Have Made Good Progress in Closing Graduation-Rate Gaps

by AA CoP Administrator - Strategic Initiatives Inc. on 05/07/2010 02:20 PM   0 comments , 391 views
Categories: Access, Retention, Graduation Rates, Employability, Student Success, Affordability, Universities, 4-Year Public Institutions, Text Documents, Public Institutions, North America - U.S., Case Studies, 4-Year U.S. Public Institutions
Custom Topics: jennifer engle, christina theokas, education trust, college results online

Jennifer Engle and Christina Theokas - The Education Trust, College Results Online, January 2010

Even as college college-going rates have increased there still exists in this country a large gap in degree attainment between white students and their minority counterparts.  This paper explores the efforts of universities that have had success in closing this gap in student success.

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http%3a%2f%2fwww.edu1world.org%2fPublicForumActionAnalytics%2f23985 Community College Faculty and Developmental Education: An Opportunity for Growth and Investment tweetmeme_source

Community College Faculty and Developmental Education: An Opportunity for Growth and Investment

by AA CoP Administrator - Strategic Initiatives Inc. on 05/07/2010 01:58 PM   0 comments , 297 views
Categories: Retention, Graduation Rates, Employability, Student Success, Performance Measurement & Improvement, Vendor White Papers, Text Documents, North America - U.S., Community Colleges
Custom Topics: amy gerstein, carnegie foundation

Amy Gerstein, John W. Gardner Center for Youth and Their Communities - The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, Problem Solution Exploration Papers, August 2009

This paper explores the ways in which faculty professional development can help to address the increasing numbers of under-prepared students in our nation's community colleges in order to increase student success.

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http%3a%2f%2fwww.edu1world.org%2fPublicForumActionAnalytics%2f23959 Accountability and Innovation in Higher Education tweetmeme_source

Accountability and Innovation in Higher Education

by AA CoP Administrator - Strategic Initiatives Inc. on 05/07/2010 12:07 AM   0 comments , 249 views
Categories: Competence, Assessment, Accountability, Retention, Graduation Rates, Employability, Student Success, Performance Measurement & Improvement, Universities, Vendor White Papers, Text Documents, North America - U.S.
Custom Topics: collegiate learning assessment, ben wildavsky, kauffman foundation

Ben Wildavsky, Senior Fellow, Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation - Excerpt form the Kauffman Thoughtbook 2007

Wildavsky describes the need for real measurement of higher education outcomes, such as the Collegiate Learning Assessment (CLA) and other means.

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http%3a%2f%2fwww.edu1world.org%2fPublicForumActionAnalytics%2f23838 Training Tomorrow's Workforce: Community College and Apprenticeship as Collaborative Routes to Rewarding Careers tweetmeme_source

Training Tomorrow's Workforce: Community College and Apprenticeship as Collaborative Routes to Rewarding Careers

by AA CoP Administrator - Strategic Initiatives Inc. on 05/04/2010 03:29 PM   0 comments , 225 views
Categories: Competence, Access, Retention, Graduation Rates, Employability, Eliminating Roadblocks, Student Success, Vendor White Papers, Text Documents, Specialized Institution, North America - U.S., 4-Year Technical Institutions, Community Colleges, 2-Year Technical Institutions
Custom Topics: center for american progress, robert i. lerman

Robert I. Lerman - Center for American Progress, December 2009

This paper explores the potential for increasing valued and marketeable skills in our nation's workforce by scaling up apprenticeship programs, especially in combination with community colleges and other postsecondary education programs.

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http%3a%2f%2fwww.edu1world.org%2fPublicForumActionAnalytics%2f23833 With Their Whole Lives Ahead of Them: Myths and Realities About Why So Many Students Fail to Finish College tweetmeme_source

With Their Whole Lives Ahead of Them: Myths and Realities About Why So Many Students Fail to Finish College

by AA CoP Administrator - Strategic Initiatives Inc. on 05/04/2010 02:55 PM   0 comments , 262 views
Categories: Access, Retention, Graduation Rates, Employability, Eliminating Roadblocks, Student Success, Family Finances, Affordability, Universities, Polytechnics, Market-Drive Institution, Graduate & Professional Schools, Further Education Colleges, 4-Year Public Institutions, Tribal Colleges & Universities, Text Documents, Specialized Institution, Research Reports / Surveys, Research Institutions, Public Institutions, Private Institutions, Not-for-Profit Institutions, North America - U.S., For-Profit Institutions, 4-Year U.S. Public Institutions, 4-Year U.S. Private Institutions, 4-Year Technical Institutions, 4-Year Private Institutions, Community Colleges, 2-Year Technical Institutions
Custom Topics: public agenda, gates foundation, jean johnson, john rochkind, amber n. ott, samantha dupont

Jean Johnson, John Rochkind, Amber N. Ott, and Samantha Dupont - Public Agenda with support from the Gates Foundation

This report analyzes the reasons why so many U.S. students fail to complete college, tests assumptions about these reasons, and tries to identify solutions that young people themselves say would help most.

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http%3a%2f%2fwww.edu1world.org%2fPublicForumActionAnalytics%2f23831 Strong Students, Strong Workers: Models for Student Success through Workforce Development and Community College Partnerships tweetmeme_source

Strong Students, Strong Workers: Models for Student Success through Workforce Development and Community College Partnerships

by AA CoP Administrator - Strategic Initiatives Inc. on 05/04/2010 02:36 PM   0 comments , 209 views
Categories: Access, Retention, Graduation Rates, Employability, Eliminating Roadblocks, Student Success, Affordability, Vendor White Papers, Text Documents, North America - U.S., Community Colleges
Custom Topics: harry j. holzer, demetra s. nightingale, center for american progress

Harry J. Holzer and Demetra S. Nightingale - Center for American Progress, December 2009

This paper discusses the promise of community colleges as a source of skill development for low-income students, as well as the problems that currently limit their success with
this population. It explores a wide range of efforts by community colleges and states,with funding from private foundations as well as the federal government, to improve enrollments
and completion rates among disadvantaged youth and adults.

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http%3a%2f%2fwww.edu1world.org%2fPublicForumActionAnalytics%2f23799 Background: Technology in Postsecondary Success tweetmeme_source

Background: Technology in Postsecondary Success

by AA CoP Administrator - Strategic Initiatives Inc. on 05/03/2010 07:08 PM   0 comments , 235 views
Categories: Accreditation, Technology, Access, Time to Degree, Retention, Graduation Rates, Employability, Eliminating Roadblocks, Student Success, Family Finances, Affordability, Universities, Polytechnics, Market-Drive Institution, Graduate & Professional Schools, Grande Ecole/Ecole Superieure, Further Education Colleges, 4-Year Public Institutions, Vendor White Papers, Tribal Colleges & Universities, Text Documents, Specialized Institution, Research Institutions, Public Institutions, Private Institutions, Not-for-Profit Institutions, North America - U.S., For-Profit Institutions, 4-Year U.S. Public Institutions, 4-Year U.S. Private Institutions, 4-Year Technical Institutions, 4-Year Private Institutions, Community Colleges, 2-Year Technical Institutions
Custom Topics: gates foundation

The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, November 12, 2009

This white paper highlights the ways in which emerging technology and the use of online courses and other innovations show promise in reducing the cost and inconvenience of postsecondary education, a first step towads increasing completion rates.

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http%3a%2f%2fwww.edu1world.org%2fPublicForumActionAnalytics%2f23797 Background: Postsecondary Success Initiative tweetmeme_source

Background: Postsecondary Success Initiative

by AA CoP Administrator - Strategic Initiatives Inc. on 05/03/2010 06:35 PM   1 comment , 307 views
Categories: Accreditation, Access, Time to Degree, Retention, Graduation Rates, Employability, Eliminating Roadblocks, Student Success, Family Finances, Affordability, Universities, Polytechnics, Market-Drive Institution, Graduate & Professional Schools, Further Education Colleges, 4-Year Public Institutions, Vendor White Papers, Tribal Colleges & Universities, Text Documents, Specialized Institution, Research Institutions, Public Institutions, Private Institutions, Not-for-Profit Institutions, North America - U.S., For-Profit Institutions, 4-Year U.S. Public Institutions, 4-Year U.S. Private Institutions, 4-Year Technical Institutions, 4-Year Private Institutions, Community Colleges, 2-Year Technical Institutions
Custom Topics: gates foundation

The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, November 12, 2009

For the past 40 years the United States has increased the college enrollment dramatically, but completion rates have remained stagnant over that period and have fallen below those of other countries.  In this white paper, The Gates Foundation outlines some promising strategies for increasing postsecondary completion rates in the U.S.

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