1. Don’t Lag Behind
Mission over past 13 years has been to help Community colleges
Make better decisions, guide intervention
Brad Phillips
Institute for Evidence-Based Change
President / CEO
Michael Taft
ZogoTech
Founder / CEO

2. An Exercise
What one thing are you hoping to gain from this session?

3. Leading & Lagging Indicators
Leading indicators are in your control and lead to your hoped-for success
Lagging indicators are not in your direct control and are influenced by your leading indicators
Lagging Indicators = Big Goal
Leading Indicators = Evidence of Progress

4. Leading and Lagging Indicators
In our own lives
Lagging indicator: Weight loss
Leading indicators: food intake, calorific intake, exercise
In our work life
Lagging indicator: Completion (degree, certificate, transfer)
Leading indicators: successful course completion, persistence, student goals

5. An Example: Odessa College
Their situation
Did not have access to good data
Acquired ZogoTech software and used it
Focused on course retention and successful course completion
Implemented professional development with faculty and staff in a variety of areas: D4C, AVID strategies, meta majors, 8 week courses (80% of all courses offered)
Results:
Average 96% course retention
Course success rates about 77%
Gap closed
Graduation rate increased by 65%

6. If You Had to Pick One Indicator to Improve
Choose a middle indicator…
Persistence

7. Aligning Problems to High-Impact Research- Based Practices

8. Technology is only part of the answer

9. Where are those leading / lagging indicators?
Pre-Enrollment
Demographics / Non-cognitive SIS, Noel-Levitz
Prev Academic Work NSC
While Enrolled
Behavior SIS, DegreeWorks
Services contacts, Starfish, SARS, TutorTrac, etc.
Engagement CCSSE
Outcomes SLO information
Post-Enrollment
Transfer / Graduation 4 year NSC
Employment / Standard of Living Wage data
Broadest and deepest dataset for community colleges

10. We democratize access to data
Transformational layer
Best Practices
Defined metrics
Business Rules/ Common Data Definitions
Aggregated/ derived information
Nightly
Trend reporting / analysis

12. Student Success Points
How long does it take students to graduate once they have completed one of several gateway courses?
The data here show that College Level Algebra is a huge gateway course (even double that of English and History)

13. Dev Ed Progression
Above: Shows which level of Math students started in on left (FTIC Math Level) versus where they are now on top (Latest Math Level)

14. Proactive Advising

15. How Are Students Moving Along the Developmental Education Pathway?
Above: First Time In College (FTIC) Math Level (rows) versus Latest Math Level (columns)

16. What do we want to know? Which students are likely to drop-out?
What are general characteristics of non-returners?
What is probability a student will achieve a momentum point?
What are toxic course combinations?
What are predictors of success in an academic program?

17. Biggest Predictor of Not Returning?
Enrolled less than half-time
GPA < 1.5
Lowest level of dev math
Aged 18-19

18. Don’t Lag Behind
Mission over past 13 years has been to help Community colleges
Make better decisions, guide intervention
Brad Phillips
Institute for Evidence-Based Change
President / CEO
Michael Taft
ZogoTech
Founder / CEO