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Wednesday, May, 12, 2010

Purdue's 'Early Intervention' for Student Success

Plesae scroll down to your SCUP Link, below this notice about SCUP–45.

 
Oh, no! You won't be getting a printed SCUP–45 Preliminary Program in the mail this year. Instead, SCUP is going green and regularly updating this digital version (PDF), which you can download at any time. Check it out! You don't want to miss higher education's premier planning conference, and your one chance this year to assemble with nearly 1,500 of your peers and colleagues: July 10–14, Minneapolis.

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At the Action Analytics Symposium last week, we saw a presentation on this Purdue program, which is leading edge. University Business magazine and SunGard Higher Ed are offering a free webinar on May 25 at 2 pm Eastern time. The bottom line is that Purdue measures a number of variables regarding student performance, in real time, and provides students with automatic and graphic alerts about their status in the form of a traffic light symbol indicating green, yellow, or red. It's called the Purdue Signals: Stoplights for Student Success program and you can read more about it on the Purdue website here.

To identify students at risk academically, Signals combines predictive modeling with data-mining from Blackboard Vista. Each student is assigned a "risk group" determined by a predictive student success algorithm. One of three stoplight ratings, which correspond to the risk group, can be released on students' Blackboard homepage. Intervention emails, composed by the instructor and based on grades and effort in the course can be released to each risk group. Signals communicates to students to use available resources on campus – like office hours and study materials - to increase their academic success. Both students and instructors benefit from Signals. Signals works in three unique ways: It provides real-time feedback. Interventions start early - as early as second week of class. It provides frequent and ongoing feedback.



SCUP's Planning Institute: Enjoy the F2F company of your colleagues and peers while you engage in one of the three SCUP Planning Institute Steps. In addition to being offered on demand, on campuses to teams of campus leaders, the institute steps are also offered to all professionals at varying times and venues. Currently scheduled are:
  • May 22–23, Ann Arbor, MI - Step I
  • July 10, Minneapolis, MN - Step I (in conjunction with SCUP–45)
  • October 2, Ann Arbor, MI - Step I
  • January 21–22, Tempe, AZ - Step II and Step III

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