{"id":495,"date":"2017-02-06T14:46:51","date_gmt":"2017-02-06T19:46:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nacacadmitted.wpengine.com\/wordpress\/?p=495"},"modified":"2017-02-06T14:46:51","modified_gmt":"2017-02-06T19:46:51","slug":"could-big-data-help-raise-college-grad-rates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/2017\/02\/06\/could-big-data-help-raise-college-grad-rates\/","title":{"rendered":"Could Big Data Help Raise College Grad Rates?"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_496\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-496\" style=\"width: 724px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-496\" src=\"http:\/\/nacacadmitted.wpengine.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/frustratedstudent.jpg\" alt=\"iStock\" width=\"724\" height=\"483\" srcset=\"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/frustratedstudent.jpg 724w, https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/frustratedstudent-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 724px) 100vw, 724px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-496\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">iStock<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>A growing number of colleges are using student data to identify and assist struggling undergrads, according <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2017\/02\/02\/education\/edlife\/will-you-graduate-ask-big-data.html?_r=0\">to a recent <em>New York Times<\/em> report<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Georgia State University, the University of Arizona, and Middle Tennessee State are among institutions using analytics in an effort to boost student retention and graduation rates.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>\u201cDifferent courses at different universities have proved to be predictors of success or failure,\u201d the article notes. \u201cThe most significant seem to be foundational courses that prepare students for higher-level work in a particular major.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Once individual colleges have identified the classes that are key to a student\u2019s future success, institutions can use computer programs that alert advisors \u201cwhen students go off historically successful pathways.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe analytics programs know the paths that successful students have followed,\u201d according to the article. \u201cWhen a student veers off that path, like getting a low grade in a predictor course or taking a course out of sequence, advisers get an alert.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2017\/02\/02\/education\/edlife\/will-you-graduate-ask-big-data.html?_r=0\">Read the full article<\/a> and learn in the more about this new approach to advising in NACAC\u2019s<em> Journal of College Admission<\/em>. <a href=\"https:\/\/indd.adobe.com\/view\/3f2b15ba-0893-4241-83ad-7cd120aaf66f\">See pages 36-39 of the magazine\u2019s fall edition<\/a> to learn how big data is changing higher education.<\/p>\n<p><em>Admitted writer\/editor Mary Stegmeir welcomes additional comments and story ideas at\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:mstegmeir@nacacnet.org\">mstegmeir@nacacnet.org<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A growing number of colleges are using student data to identify and assist struggling undergrads, according to a recent New York Times report. Georgia State University, the University of Arizona, and Middle Tennessee State are among institutions using analytics in an effort to boost student retention and graduation rates.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[111],"tags":[254,255,257,256],"class_list":["post-495","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-college-completion","tag-big-data","tag-georgia-state-university","tag-middle-tennessee-state","tag-university-of-arizona"],"featured_image_src":null,"featured_image_src_square":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"Mary Stegmeir","author_link":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/author\/mstegmeir\/"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/peWmJq-7Z","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/495","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=495"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/495\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/admitted.nacacnet.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}