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Building an Academic Data Culture to Support Student Success

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Intended Audience:

This service is for cross-functional teams consisting of academic administrators and leaders, department chairs, faculty, institutional research experts, digital learning and learning analytics support staff. Note: APLU will support participating institutions in identifying ideal candidates based on institutional contexts, needs, and capacities.

Service Model:

Cross-functional team experience

Modalities:

Blended, eLearning, Facilitated scheduled, workshop, community of practice

Faculty, department chairs, and teaching and learning staff are critical partners that should be actively engaged in data review and policy processes at their institutions. However, many lack access to the data, training, or resources necessary to design meaningful programmatic policies and educational experiences that support learning and successful outcomes for all students.. It can be challenging for many institutions to break down silos and make meaningful connections across departments and offices in service of improving data literacy and democratization with the goal of achieving higher student success.

APLU provides strategic guidance, data literacy workshops, and academic data coaching to cross-functional collaborative teams, supporting them to identify the necessary relationships and resources within their own institutional context that will support the growth and adoption of data and learning analytics at the course, departmental, and institutional levels. Each participating institution will engage a cross-campus team to collect, interpret, analyze, and communicate data that address a specific student success issue that can lead to further institutional transformation efforts at their institution.

Learning Objectives

Upon completion of this service, participants will be able to:

  • Build knowledge and skills in academic data literacy
  • Assess your institutional data culture and identify key areas of opportunity for improvement
  • Collect and analyze data to address an academic student success issue (identified by your institution at the beginning of the service)
  • Develop an action plan to create strategies that enhance student success within the target course, program, or department
  • Learn, apply, and sustain a practice of continuous improvement with the cross-functional team that can later be scaled by institutions seeking to integrate good data practices by their campus communities.

Service Deliverables

  1. With your cross-functional team, and with the support of APLU and its network of coaches, design a customized action plan for improving the use of data for academic student success within a unique project or initiative at your institution
  2. Create a presentation of project findings to take back to campus leaders and begin the process of making institutional changes to support student success

Service Duration

This service is designed as a 12 or 16 week engagement, depending on institutional or cohort needs and capacities. This service may also be offered as an intensive, two-day, in-person “boot-camp” for institutions or cohorts.

Contact Hours

Five 90-minute synchronous, online workshops for the institutional team and four total 60-minute coaching sessions

Time on Task

22 total hours for team members and 34 total hours for project lead

Capacity

As designed, this service can accommodate up to five teams simultaneously. For each institutional team, there should be a minimum of four participants. We recommend no more than 8 participants per team. Intermediaries interested in serving more than five institutions may inquire.

Assumptions

Institutions will be asked to identify a specific area, topic, or student success issue they would like to focus on for the data project

 

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