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The GPS That Charts the Course
to Student Success – Best Practices
Julie Owen, Chief Sales & Marketing Officer

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What to Expect
 Introduce yourself in the chat, name, institution,
and role
 Polls throughout the webinar
 Brief survey about webinar (end of session)
 Follow-up email from Julie Owen to include
 Link to recorded session
 Slidedeck
 Information about BETA testing

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The Road to Hell is Paved with Good
Intentions

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The Road to SUCCESS is Paved with Good
Directions

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Where Should We Go?

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KNOWN
» ACT/SAT
» Transfer Credits
» High school transcripts/GPA
» Career placement test
» Math/English placement test
scores
» Financial data in FA office
UNKNOWN
» Work schedule
» Level of family/employers’
support
» Personal integrity
» Work ethic
» Time management habits
» Technical skills
» Ability to read and
understand on-screen
FACTS ABOUT STUDENTS

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Creating Custom Maps for Students
» ACT/SAT
» Transfer Credits
» High school transcripts
» Career placement
test
» Math/English placement
test scores
Financial data

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What’s Your Preference?
»Different students need different directions
»How do they prefer to “get there”?

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How Do we NAVIGATE the Path to Student
Success
»Notify
»Address
»Value
»Integrate
»Guide
»Advance
»Talk
»Engage, Evaluate, Examples

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NOTIFY

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ADDRESS

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VALUE

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VALUE FOCUS=BENEFIT to student
» EVERYONE WINS-Low stakes assessment – no Pass or Fail
» School GENUINELY CARES about student and their success
» EMPOWER student
» CONNECT student with appropriate resources
» SAVE time by targeting opportunities for improvement
» IMPROVING study time using Learning Styles
» BUILD confidence in strengths

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INTEGRATE

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GUIDE
Reflection paper on results
Discussion/Chat with peers
Target conversation w/advisor, counselor,
mentor
Work through Resources provided on
report
Personalized Learning Path
Connect student to support resources
offered by school

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ADVANCE
Predictive
Correlation
Comparison
Descriptive
Student Service

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TALK
»DON’T PRACTICE THE SILENT TREATMENT
»ASK FACULTY
»ASK STUDENTS
»ASK GRADUATE ASSISTANTS
»GET FEEDBACK TO IMPROVE & GET BUY-IN

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ENGAGE, EVALUATE, EXAMPLES
»ENGAGE
– Anyone and everyone who has contact with the student
»EVALUATE
– What did you find out from your “TALK”? Outside input, fresh
perspective, new ideas, try something different
»EXAMPLES
– Wayland Baptist University
– University of Memphis
– Penn State University
– Portland Community College
– University of North Georgia

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Spotlight Schools

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Wayland Baptist University

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Improve Accessibility & Course Design
»Defined – Evaluate learning styles and use that
information to improve course design. Conduct research
comparing student success of those who know their
learning style and choose content accordingly vs. those
who do not.
»Dr. Trish Trifilo is working to get her research published

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University of Memphis

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Create & Nurture an Online Student
Success Initiative
»Defined – UofM sought to determine how departments
offering fully online and asynchronous UofM Online
Programs can enchance the learning success of their
upper division online students.
»Success Defined
– Increased enrollments
– Grade of C or better
– One year program retention
– Earning a bachelor’s degree
»Tested & Implemented six new services/resources
including SmarterMeasure Learning Readiness Indicator

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Online Student Success Initiative
»BENEFITS
– Created an assignment that requires students to complete the
assessment
– Used Data to improve the design of the course
– Used data to inform student support which areas students
needed help. On an individual basis and as a group
– Using The Learning Readiness Indicator contributed to the
overall success of the initiative
• 2.31% decrease in course withdrawal
• 4.5% increase in course success
• .12 increase in overall GPA

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Penn State University

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Expansion
»What’s changed at your school over the past 7 years? 5
years? 2 years?
»PSU Global Campus has used SmarterMeasure for over 6
years with their online learners.
»This year, they are expanding into other programs

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Portland Community College

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PCC Virtual Backpack
• Simple
• User-Friendly
• Includes mini-quizzes

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University of North Georgia

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Determine Predictive Value of LRI in Online
Success
»Population – First-time online students
»Examination – Grades in online courses of LRI completers
were compared to non-LRI-completers
»Implementation – Upon completing the assessment,
admins leveraged student data to create & provide
specific supports at remediating risks reported.
»Conclusion – 95% confidence level, there is a statistically
significant different between the grades in online course
grades of LRI completers vs. non-LRI-completers
Case study link - http://www.smarterservices.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/SmarterServices_Case-
Study_University-of-North-Georgia.pdf

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Announcement

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WHAT is SMARTERMEASURE?
 Adaptive
Assessment
Engine
 Content
Agnostic
 Web-based
 Completely
hosted
 Customizable
READINESS
Learning
Readiness
Indicator
Competency
Based
Education
Readiness
COGNITIVE
Math
Readiness
Writing
Readiness
CUSTOM
Coming Soon
Corporate
Authored
School
Authored

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SmarterMeasure is a content agnostic, highly-
configurable, adaptive assessment engine that delivers
custom assessments.
Assessments offered by SmarterServices
The Learning Readiness Indicator™
Competency Based Education Readiness Indicator
Math Readiness
Writing Readiness

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• FOLLOW UP SURVEY-EXIT THE WEBINAR & FOLLOW UP
EMAIL
• FOLLOW UP EMAIL
• RECORDED SESSION
• SLIDEDECK
• CONTACT INFORMATION
• BETA TESTING INFORMATION

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RESOURCES
» Case Studies-http://www.smarterservices.com/resources/case-
studies/
» Conference Schedule-
http://www.smarterservices.com/resources/conferences/
» Webinars-http://www.smarterservices.com/resources/webinars/
» Putting Together the Pieces of a Successful Student Orientation-
https://vimeo.com/131705665
» Announcement about new product evolution -
https://vimeo.com/174409712
» SmarterProctoring -
https://www.smarterproctoring.com/public/contact

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Contact Information
Julie Owen
Chief Sales & Marketing Officer
334-356-8353
julie@SmarterServices.com