Summary of Enabling and Supporting Evidence-Based Approaches to Student Success By Dr. Mitchell Colver

00:00:00 - 00:50:00

This video discusses the importance of enabling and supporting evidence-based approaches to student success. Dr. Mitchell Colver provides examples of how data-driven dashboards can help achieve this goal, and how analytics can be used to improve student success. He recommends that practitioners commit to a life cycle approach to analytics, which entails being honest about where gaps exist and seeking out help from others.

• 00:00:00 In his keynote speech, Dr. Mitchell Kohler discusses the importance of implementing evidence-based approaches to student success. He emphasizes the importance of collaboration among faculty, staff, and executives in order to achieve success. He also discusses the importance of the learning analytics community exchange, which emphasizes the use of analytics to support learning and teaching.
• 00:05:00 Dr. Mitchell Colver discusses the importance of evidence-based approaches to student success, and how his experience at Utah State University has taught him that a nine-phase cycle is more likely than a six-phase cycle. He also discusses the need for advocacy and innovation, and how documentation of productivity, alignment with latent aims, and dynamic storytelling are all essential steps in achieving these goals.
• 00:10:00 Dr. Mitchell Colver discusses the importance of data collection and access, and how shifting away from paper-based methods of governance can help improve student success. He also provides a link to a webinar on the subject.
• 00:15:00 Dr. Mitchell Colver discusses the importance of data science and modeling, stressing the importance of understanding how data science and modeling is person-based. He provides three examples of how data science and modeling can be personalized and how this can be a disadvantage if lost. Colver also discusses how curricular analytics can help foster a data science and modeling culture in universities.
• 00:20:00 Dr. Mitchell Colver discusses the importance of professional development in enabling evidence-based approaches to student success. He indicates that in order to achieve sustained success with evidence-based approaches, training must be cyclical, involve active learning, have coherence with latent aims, and be participatory by involving faculty and students.
• 00:25:00 This video discusses the importance of enabling and supporting evidence-based approaches to student success, and how data-driven dashboards can help achieve this goal. Dr. Mitchell Colver notes that while many dashboards can be effectively created, they are less successful if not socialized cyclically and in a sustained way. If a dashboard's vision is to simply show data without leading to change, this can be a threat to the value of the work. Dr. Colver provides an example of how data-driven dashboards can empower human action by leading to changes in practice and policy.
• 00:30:00 Dr. Mitchell Colver discusses the importance of evidence-based approaches to student success, and how analytics can be used to help document and prove the value of such approaches. He highlights the case of Utah State University, where advisors adopted analytics in order to improve their practice and achieve desired outcomes.
• 00:35:00 Dr. Mitchell Colver discusses how analytics can be used to improve student success, and how adopting the use of analytics can positively impact retention and persistence rates.
• 00:40:00 The video discusses various ways in which an evidence-based approach to student success can be enabled and supported. Dr. Mitchell Colver provides a 20-insight booklet, "Student Insights Report," which is designed to help faculty, students, and staff understand how analytics can be used to improve student success. Additionally, Civitas Learning provides examples of how analytics has helped improve teaching and learning, curriculum design, and leadership focus at Utah State University. Finally, Colver recommends that practitioners commit to a life cycle approach to analytics, which entails being honest about where gaps exist and seeking out help from others.
• 00:45:00 Dr. Mitchell Colver discusses the importance of having a clear, cohesive, and individualized mission statement for organizations in order to achieve successful outcomes. He also discusses the importance of aligning a late name's motivations with organizational aims, and how these goals should be reflected in an individual's professional role.
• 00:50:00 The video discusses the importance of evidence-based approaches to student success and Dr. Mitchell Colver's position that educators should use such approaches whenever possible. Colver provides examples of how evidence-based approaches can help educators better understand student interests and abilities, create a more challenging curriculum, and support student achievement.