Summary of longitudinal persistence reporting.

1. DOODLE Persistence
Project Update
Greg Ketcham, SUNY Oswego
Pam Youngs-Maher, SUNY Upstate

2. Agenda
• Review of aggregated data
• Findings
• Future inquiry
• Recap on data collection/review goals
• Q&A

3. Observations
• Data covers Fall 2007 to Fall 2014.
• Total Number of Semesters worth of data - 17
(8 Fall, 7 Spring, 2 Summer).
• Total Number of Colleges who have participated - 27
• Total Number of Four Year Schools who have participated - 6
• Total Number of Community Colleges who have participated - 21
• Four Year Schools have a higher average success rate overall, but
lower number of data participation semesters. (86% avg for 4 yr
sector; 69% avg for CC sector)

4. Unfiltered data: signal to noise ratio
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0.82
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0.92
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Participation >=8 - Census to Completion - by Semester

5. What does the data tell us?
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Top 5 Community College Performers - Census to Completion - by
Semester
Corning Community College Erie Community College Hudson Valley Community College
SUNY Ulster Tompkins Cortland Community College

6. Top Performing Schools

7. Questions from the data (future inquiry)
• Were there policy and/or procedural changes that contributed to
increased persistence?
• Is there a significant difference in population for summer?
• What can we all learn and apply from this?

8. Recap on data collection goals/strategy
• Reminder:
• Ask for access to SUNY BI to review your data submissions
• Look for upcoming CPD workshop(s) on using SUNY BI

9. Open Q&A
• Thoughts?
• Comments?