{"id":1317,"date":"2020-09-28T16:48:27","date_gmt":"2020-09-28T21:48:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ele.local\/?p=1317"},"modified":"2023-06-08T14:42:06","modified_gmt":"2023-06-08T19:42:06","slug":"adaptive-learning-pilot-project-houston-community-college-tutoring-center","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.everylearnereverywhere.org\/es\/blog\/adaptive-learning-pilot-project-houston-community-college-tutoring-center\/","title":{"rendered":"Why and How Houston Community College Involved the Tutoring Center in Its Adaptive Learning Pilot Project"},"content":{"rendered":"

Many adaptive learning pilot projects involve faculty, deans, instructional designers, and instructional technology staff to implement new digital courseware and to effectively use the data to improve student outcomes.<\/p>\n

But when Nathan Smith, OER Coordinator and Instructor of Philosophy at Houston Community College (HCC), was appointed project leader of HCC\u2019s adaptive learning pilot, he was thinking of a colleague in a different part of the college \u2014 Amanda Guerrero, Director of Instructional Support, Academic Instruction.<\/p>\n

Guerrero oversees an academic tutoring program<\/a> with 14 on-campus locations across the city of Houston that provides 90,000 hours of student tutoring per year. Smith felt the tutoring experience could be a powerful factor in HCC\u2019s new adaptive learning pilot.<\/p>\n

After all, the adaptive learning courseware would be generating data about what concepts or skills students were struggling with. Typically, faculty use that data to personalize their instruction. But what would happen if the tutors and students used that information as a starting point for their session?<\/p>\n

Smith and Guerrero believed if they could train tutors to refer to the adaptive learning data and to ask the right questions, it would provide structure and focused help for students. Smith says, \u201cBy using the adaptive courseware reports to inform tutoring, we believed we could have success.\u201d<\/p>\n

After two terms of close collaboration between faculty and the HCC Tutoring Center, students are getting the targeted support they need, and the college is seeing a positive impact on pass rates.<\/p>\n

Involved from the start<\/h2>\n

With a grant and support provided by Achieving the Dream<\/a> (ATD), a partner in the Every Learner Everywhere\u00ae network<\/a>, HCC launched its adaptive learning pilot project with a particular goal of increasing pass rates in \u201chigh-enrollment, high-failure\u201d courses. These gateway courses<\/a> often have high DFW rates<\/a> and are a critical leverage point for closing equity gaps for Black, Latino, Indigenous, and poverty-affected students.<\/p>\n