Imagine if colleges could predict which students will drop out of college and when they might do so before it was too late. What would this information do to reduce dropouts and increase enrollment? graduation ratesWhat is the best way to get started?
Perhaps a new system can help.
“We have identified factors that can be predictors of student success, which gives colleges the ability to flag at-risk students,”Eric Reich from Higher One’s Campus Labs Platform. “Now, thanks to Higher One’s Campus Labs platform, colleges are able to use sophisticated data analysis techniques to understand more about students.”
How students do on campus include their participation in activities such as sporting events or student groups, how often they use campus services (such checking in at the career center, financial aid office or computer labs), and how engaged they are in their course work (providing feedback or visiting professors during office hours).
All these actions generate data that institutions can analyze and increase student graduation rates. This makes sense. However, schools have only recently adopted technology to analyze and gather these data so that colleges can identify at-risk students. “tweak”They offer programs that can help.
“Using Campus Labs, an advisor can actually detect patterns of students who are not successful and intervene to give them the guidance at the critical time — before it’s too late,” says Reich.
Take Northern Arizona University. They recently partnered up with Higher One to collect data, collaborate across different divisions, accept student assessment, and guide administrators in their decisions.
“Freshman outreach has been very successful for us,”Erin Grisham (executive director, Northern Arizona Educational Support Service) “Students we meet with retain at higher rates than those we don’t meet with.”
For more information, please visit www.higherone.com/campuslabs.
