Mulherrin and Porch outlined UMUC\u2019s (continued) evolution from siloed data that was simply historical in nature to real-time, integrated data that was predictive and ultimately prescriptive.<\/p>\n The campus is trying to collect data at ALL the critical milestones of a student\u2019s experience at UMUC:<\/p>\n UMUC has turned to a number of different sources for this data. They have developed their own internal metrics, and have turned outward to partner with the companies PAR<\/a> and Civitas<\/a> to help make sense of the information.<\/p>\n One technique they have incorporated is the use of \u201cpersistence scores\u201d. Each student is assigned a persistence score, which is influenced by \u201chundreds\u201d of variables. These persistence scores are updated daily and are monitored for low levels and dramatic changes. The campus is able to identify students at risk in real-time, hopefully before it is too late.<\/p>\n The creation of these persistence scores has not been without its questions on campus. UMUC does not know all the variables that make up these scores (they are developed by Civitas), nor do they know how these variables are weighted. They additionally had to provide access to all of UMUC\u2019s LMS data and student data, which was not always a popular decision with faculty.<\/p>\n The availability of these persistence scores has allowed UMUC to judge the impact of various student support interventions in close to real time. While SUNY might have to wait until the end of a semester to see what impact an intervention might have on persistence, the persistence score allows you to judge the immediate impact on the likelihood of a positive outcome.\u00a0 This has allowed UMUC to take a very research-based approach to trying different interventions. Sending out targeted \u201cmindset messages\u201d at key points had a significant impact. Other interventions did not. The key is that they now have a quick, analytic way to determine the effectiveness of their efforts. The ultimate goal is to find the right treatment, at the right time, for the right student.<\/p>\n This type of large scale implementation takes a commitment of time and money. The potential payoff is a more efficient, more effective system to students supports that increases the success of everyone involved.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Save<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" If you read any higher education blogs or news sites, you can\u2019t get far without running into a story about the promise of analytics and big data. At Open SUNY, we are in the process of hiring an impact analyst to help us develop, measure, and analyze appropriate metrics. Data is clearly the \u201cNext Big […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8158,"featured_media":3364,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[177,16],"tags":[375,52,374,373],"class_list":["post-3356","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-conference","category-research","tag-analytics","tag-completion","tag-data","tag-upcea"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/online.suny.edu\/onlineteaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3356"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/online.suny.edu\/onlineteaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/online.suny.edu\/onlineteaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/online.suny.edu\/onlineteaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8158"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/online.suny.edu\/onlineteaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3356"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/online.suny.edu\/onlineteaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3356\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5421,"href":"https:\/\/online.suny.edu\/onlineteaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3356\/revisions\/5421"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/online.suny.edu\/onlineteaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3364"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/online.suny.edu\/onlineteaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/online.suny.edu\/onlineteaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/online.suny.edu\/onlineteaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Gartner](\"https:\/\/online.suny.edu\/onlineteaching\/files\/2016\/07\/From-Hindsight-to-Foresight-300x222.png\")
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