Thank you to everyone who signed up for our iPod giveaway. The winner is:
Robin Huskey
Director of Research and Institutional Effectiveness
Kilgore College
TAIR 2009 Conference Presentation and iPod Drawing
Using Data to Improve Developmental Education: Three Case Studies
When:
Tuesday, March 3rd,
3:00 to 3:40 in the Sycamore room
Location:
Sycamore
Presenter:
Michael Taft, ZogoTech
Paul Illich, McLennan Community College
Abstract:
As institutions become more data-driven, institutional researchers have become deluged with requests for more data. However, we are often still using basic reporting technology that does not address the problems of constantly changing data / poor data quality and does not support more sophisticated analyses. Business intelligence and data warehousing are often seen as solutions, however cost and risk rule it out for many institutions.
This presentation will take a look at how three institutions have changed how they access data to make quicker, better-informed decisions: Southwest Texas Junior College (Datatel Colleague) - this Achieving the Dream school analyzed gaps in developmental education progression, designed cohort-specific interventions, and has dramatically increased gatekeeper course completion. University of the Incarnate Word (Banner) - this private university is linking student intervention data to outcome data to predict at-risk students, intervene, and assess the results. And Metropolitan Community College (PeopleSoft) - this large community college district uses data to analyze student progression via conditional probabilities and time series analysis.
Presentation Slides:
Using Data to Improve Developmental Education
