ERIC Number: ED602995
Record Type: Non-Journal
Publication Date: 2020-Jan
Pages: 40
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Trends in Key Performance Indicators Among Colleges Participating in a Technology-Mediated Advising Reform Initiative
Velasco, Tatiana; Hughes, Katherine L.; Barnett, Elisabeth A.
Community College Research Center, Teachers College, Columbia University
In 2015, 26 two- and four-year institutions received three-year grants to implement reforms consistent with the Integrated Planning and Advising for Student Success (iPASS) initiative. Grantees committed to launch or enhance existing technologies and undertake related organizational changes that would enable them to provide more effective advising and support to all students. CCRC was engaged as a research partner to document the iPASS colleges' implementation efforts and outcomes. CCRC analyzed key performance indicators (KPIs)--including student retention from first to second semester and first-term grade point average--using administrative data collected from all 26 participating institutions. This report describes trends in KPIs, aggregated by college sector and cohort, in the participating colleges from 2011 to 2017--from the period before the initiative started until about two years after the grants were awarded. Yet because iPASS reforms cannot easily be isolated from other reforms the colleges were carrying out, it is difficult to directly associate the modest changes over time in KPIs that we observe with iPASS efforts. This report also includes college scores on an iPASS development index, a weighted measure we created to gain insights into the level of adoption of iPASS technologies and practices across the 26 grantee institutions as of fall 2017, when colleges provided answers to an institutional survey about their efforts. We find that while no institution had fully implemented iPASS, at most institutions, substantial progress was being made. [For an earlier report, "Baseline Trends in Key Performance Indicators among Colleges Participating in a Technology-Mediated Advising Reform Initiative," see ED586484.]
Descriptors: Trend Analysis, Performance, Educational Indicators, Colleges, Academic Advising, Educational Technology, Educational Change, Grants, Program Implementation, Technology Uses in Education, Success, Program Effectiveness, Grade Point Average, Planning, English, College Credits, Academic Persistence, Student Characteristics, Institutional Characteristics
Community College Research Center. Available from: CCRC Publications. Teachers College, Columbia University, 525 West 120th Street Box 174, New York, NY 10027. Tel: 212-678-3091; Fax: 212-678-3699; e-mail: ccrc@columbia.edu; Web site: http://ccrc.tc.columbia.edu/
Publication Type: Reports - Research
Education Level: Higher Education; Postsecondary Education
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Language: English
Sponsor: Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
Authoring Institution: Columbia University, Community College Research Center
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