Precision Education

2020 ◽  
pp. 202-224
Author(s):  
Huda A. Makhluf
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Student Success ◽  
Reliable Data ◽  
Drop Out ◽  
Evidence Based ◽  
College Level ◽  
Effective Learning ◽  
Significant Challenge ◽  
Innovative Solution ◽  
Stem Students

Higher education is a pathway to social equality and mobility. Unfortunately, a great number of students who enter Higher Education are not ready to succeed in rigorous college-level courses and fail as a result or drop out. Our nation has entered a transformative period in higher education brought about by the demands of an evidence-based approach that uses rigorous scientific methodologies designed to capture valid and reliable data to drive student success and improve outcomes. Math literacy especially remains a significant challenge for student success in college, in particular for STEM students. Herein, the author describes an innovative solution that leverages technology and data analytics to expand student success, with a special emphasis on engineering an environment for effective learning, mindset, and motivation.

scholarly journals Supporting students during the transition to university in COVID-19: 5 key considerations and recommendations

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Madeleine Pownall ◽  
Richard Harris ◽  
Pam Blundell-Birtill
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Student Success ◽  
Undergraduate Students ◽  
Tertiary Education ◽  
Evidence Based ◽  
Educational Provision ◽  
Success Model ◽  
Student Success Model ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Academic Year

As COVID-19 continues to disrupt pre-tertiary education provision and examinations in the UK, urgent consideration must be given to how best to support the 2021-2022 cohort of incoming undergraduate students to Higher Education. In this paper, we draw upon the ‘Five Sense of Student Success’ model to highlight five key evidence-based considerations that Higher Education educators should be attentive to when preparing for the next academic year. These include: the challenge in helping students to reacclimatise to academic work following a period of prolonged educational disruption, supporting students to access the ‘hidden curriculum’ of Higher Education, negotiating mental health consequences of COVID-19, and remaining sensitive to inequalities of educational provision that students have experienced as a result of COVID-19. We provide evidence-based recommendations to each of these considerations.

scholarly journals Supporting students during the transition to university in COVID-19: Five key considerations and recommendations for educators

2021 ◽  
pp. 147572572110324
Author(s):  
Madeleine Pownall ◽  
Richard Harris ◽  
Pam Blundell-Birtill
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Higher Education ◽  
Student Success ◽  
Undergraduate Students ◽  
Evidence Based ◽  
Educational Provision ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Success Model ◽  
Student Success Model ◽  
Academic Year

As coronavirus disease of 2019 (COVID-19) continues to disrupt pretertiary education provision and examinations in the United Kingdom, urgent consideration must be given to how best to support the 2021–2022 cohort of incoming undergraduate students to higher education. In this paper, we draw upon the “Five Sense of Student Success” model to highlight five key evidence-based, psychology-informed considerations that higher education educators should be attentive to when preparing for the next academic year. These include the challenge in helping students to reacclimatize to academic work following a period of prolonged educational disruption, supporting students to access the “hidden curriculum” of higher education, negotiating mental health consequences of COVID-19, and remaining sensitive to inequalities of educational provision that students have experienced as a result of COVID-19. We provide evidence-based, psychology-informed recommendations to each of these considerations.

scholarly journals Az MTMI (STEM) készségek korai azonosítása a felsőoktatásban a lemorzsolódás csökkentése érdekében

2018 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Brigitta Szilágyi
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Drop Out ◽  
European Universities ◽  
University Of Technology ◽  
New Students ◽  
Stem Students ◽  
Similar Survey ◽  
The University ◽  
First Time

A readySTEMgo projekt hat európai egyetem: a KU Leuven, a Hamburg University of Technology, a University of Zilina, a Birmingham University, az Aalto University és a Budapesti Műszaki és Gazdaságtudományi Egyetem együttműködése, melynek elsődleges célja olyan javaslatok megfogalmazása, melyekkel a STEM tanulmányokat folytató hallgatók lemorzsolódása csökkenthető. A projekt diagnosztikai célú felmérésekkel vizsgálja a frissen felvett hallgatók készségeit, tanulási szokásait, megállapítja a veszélyben lévő hallgatók csoportját és ezek támogatására, felzárkóztatására szolgáló módszereket, eszközöket javasol. Ismertetjük a BME hat szakán 2015-ben közel 1000 fős mintán végzett felmérés kérdéseit és a felmérésből levonható tanulságokat. Hazánkban nem történt eddig hasonló felmérés, először vesz részt magyar egyetem ilyen projektben. AbstractEarly recognition of STEM skills in higher education to reduce drop-out The readySTEMgo project covers the cooperation of six European universities: KU Leuven, the Hamburg University of Technology, the University of Zilina, Birmingham University, Aalto University and the Budapest University of Technology and Economics (BME), aiming at the elaboration of proposals reducing the drop-out of STEM students. The project surveys the skills and learning habits of the new students, identifies the group of the endangered students and proposes methods and tools supporting them and their closing up. We present the questions of the survey implemented in 2015 at six programmes of the BME, on a 1000-person sample as well as the conclusions of the survey. In Hungary, there has been no similar survey so far, this is the first time that a Hungarian University is involved in such a project.

Leading Online Education for Student Success

2017 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 105-126 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hamish Coates ◽  
Paula Kelly ◽  
Ryan Naylor
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Online Education ◽  
Student Success ◽  
Business Models ◽  
Academic Leadership ◽  
Clear Picture ◽  
Evidence Based ◽  
Effective Strategies

Online education has grown exponentially over the last few decades, churning through a swarm of acronyms, ambiguities and potentialities. Substantial energy has been invested in producing technology, building academic capability, and understanding learners and markets. Though it feels pervasive, online education is comparatively new in the scheme of higher education, and key education and business models remain in formation. To spur advance, this paper argues that as online education matures increasing energy must shift from supplier-centric concerns about provision to instead ensuring learner value and success. We argue that online education presents new opportunities not just for the mechanics of higher education, but for improving each student’s experience and outcomes. Central to such advance is a clear picture of student success, cogent perspectives for understanding students, effective strategies for analysing and interpreting huge volumes of data, and more evidence-based academic leadership. The paper investigates each of these areas, provoking an agenda to guide further student and institutional achievement.

scholarly journals Who am I and what keeps me going? Profiling the distance learning student in higher education

2012 ◽  
Vol 13 (4) ◽  
pp. 107 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jacqueline Aundree Baxter
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Distance Learning ◽  
Student Success ◽  
Student Retention ◽  
Drop Out ◽  
Small Scale ◽  
Institutional Research ◽  
Student Progression ◽  
Project Data ◽  
Education Courses

<p>Student retention and progression has exercised the HE sector for some time now, and there has been much research into the reasons why students drop out of Higher Education courses. (Allen, 2006; Buglear, 2009;). More recently the Higher Education Academy Grants Programme Briefing (HEFCE, 2010) , outlined a number of areas that emergent project data revealed as being important to both the retention and progression of students, including areas outlined by a number of researchers as being essential to student success: expectations, support, feedback and involvement. But there has been less research, particularly within the distance learning sector, into factors that encourage students to stay (O'Brien, 2002). This small scale qualitative project using qualitative research methods and based in the Open University UK, builds upon an intensive institutional research project analyzing what type of interventions make a positive difference to student progression and success. The research revealed insights into factors linked to the expectations, identities and support of students which proved influential in terms of their resilience and motivation to remain on course.</p>

A review on the prerequisites of Evidence-Based Curriculum as a driver to skills development of the leather value chain in Africa

2019 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-10
Author(s):  
Mwinyikione Mwinyihija
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Curriculum Design ◽  
Value Chain ◽  
Theoretical Perspective ◽  
Economic Benefits ◽  
Skills Development ◽  
Evidence Based ◽  
Wealth Creation ◽  
Urban Rural ◽  
Review Study

The review study closely introspects’ on the prerequisites of evidence-based curriculum within the realms of specialized skills development agenda as pursued through higher education Institutions in Africa. Explicitly, the constraining factors that bedevil the leather sector are identifiable when appropriate research designs tools are applied. As such, in the process of identifying the constraints, renascence themes could, therefore, be beneficial in collecting evidence in support of developing curriculum. Such a developed curriculum stands higher chances of acceptability and aptly mitigates against challenges related to specialized skills development. The review succinctly indicates that in the process of identifying the themes, the scope of collecting evidence becomes attainable, thus, improving curricula that entails a participatory and transformative orientation. Indeed, during the review phase of the study, three main perspectives are depicted to be consequential in attaining a comprehensive, evidence-based curriculum, such as; action research, backward curriculum design perspective and theoretical perspective. Therefore, about this perspective, a reflection based on personal experiences and related to new knowledge with what they already know leads to constructivism. The relevancy of a constructivist strategy is observed to facilitate the observatory and evaluative stance during the development of evidence-based curriculum. Moreover, in consolidating and sustaining the benefit of such a developed curriculum, threshold concept was found during the review that it complements the process and strengthens the collecting evidence for curriculum development. Accordingly, therefore, the result of the review study indicate that Africa would  position itself for initiating transformational changes in aspects of specialized higher education, fruition towards socio-economic benefits (e.g. employment, wealth creation and technology transfer), reversal of urban-rural or inter/intra continental migration flurry.

UNDERSTANDING DISABILITIES & ONLINE STUDENT SUCCESS

2013 ◽  
Vol 17 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Kristen Betts ◽  
Bill Welsh ◽  
Kelly Hermann ◽  
Cheryl Pruitt ◽  
Gaeir Dietrich ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Online Learning ◽  
Student Success ◽  
Students With Disabilities ◽  
Disability Services ◽  
Government Accountability ◽  
Academic Goals ◽  
Online Student ◽  
Support Resources ◽  
Legislative Changes

Approximately 11% of all postsecondary students reported having a disability in 2008. Although the percentage of students with disabilities in 2008 closely reflects the percentage reported in 2004, the U.S. Government Accountability Office states that recent legislative changes have the potential to increase the diversity and number of students with disabilities pursing higher education. To support students with disabilities enrolled in higher education and in online learning, it is important to understand disabilities and the resources students need to actively engage in their courses and to achieve their academic goals. This article includes collaborative responses from a diverse group of leaders at eight higher education institutions and organizations who work with disability services and have experience in online learning. Some of the contributors also have disabilities so the collective responses build upon research, professional experience, and personal experience. For this article, the ten contributors answered 20 questions regarding disabilities and online student success as well as provided recommended practices. This article is designed to be interactive. It includes screenshots, simulation links, video demonstrations, and resources to provide a more detailed understanding of disabilities, accessibility, and support resources. JALN readers are encouraged to interact with the simulations and to watch the demonstration videos as a way to learn more about disabilities and supporting online student success.

The Politics of Distance Edcucation

Public Voices ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 5 (3) ◽  
pp. 3
Author(s):  
Mark Peterson
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Distance Education ◽  
Interactive Television ◽  
Small Population ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Instructional Software ◽  
College Level ◽  
Web Based ◽  
Political Perceptions ◽  
Fiscal Efficiency

"Distance education" at the college level is well over a century old.  It has served the needs of a numerically large, but proportionately small population of learners who have eschewed the campus classroom.  These correspondence school enrollees, educational TV watchers, and audiocassette listeners have had only modest impact on the structure, mission, and strategy of the institutions serving them.  But that is now changing, and changing very dramatically.  The advent of the Internet, interactive television technology, and web-based instructional software, coupled with administrative and political perceptions of educational reformation and fiscal efficiency, may be causing nothing less than a revolution in higher education.  By applying a feminist model of assessment called "unthinking technology," that is to say, exploring the potential, but unthought of socio-political aspects of this technological revolution, this paper raises significant questions about the security of the traditional academic enterprise.  "The Politics of Distance Education" urges a pro-active embrace of these technologies by the academy in order to enable a legitimate "competency for grievance" so that the protection of the validity of higher education, and legitimacy of the academic profession can be ethically defended and publicly respected, rather than being viewed as mulish resistance to the inevitable.

Promoting divergent leadership philosophies to improve student success outcomes for black and brown students in higher education

2021 ◽  
Vol 0 (0) ◽  
Author(s):  
Nicholas Petty ◽  
Dakota King-White ◽  
Tachelle Banks
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
United States ◽  
Student Success ◽  
Baccalaureate Degree ◽  
The United States ◽  
Retention Rates ◽  
Completion Rates ◽  
Marginalized Groups ◽  
Support Students

Abstract Throughout the United States there are millions of Black and Brown students starting the process of attending college. However, research indicates that students from traditionally marginalized groups are less likely than their counterparts to complete the process and graduate college (Shapiro et al., 2017). While retention rates for students from traditionally marginalized backgrounds continue to decline, universities are beginning to pay attention to the needs of this population in search of ways of better supporting them. The examination of these factors may also inform programmatic adjustments, leadership philosophies, and future practices to help retain students and lead to eventual completion of a baccalaureate degree. In this article, the authors review the literature to explore factors that can affect Black and Brown students’ completion rates in higher education. By reviewing the literature and the factors impacting Black and Brown students, the authors share with readers initiatives at one university that are being used to support students from a strengths-based approach.

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