Real-time indicators and targeted supports: using online platform data to accelerate student learning

Abstract

Statway® is one of the Community College Pathways initiatives designed to promote students' success in their developmental math sequence and reduce the time required to earn college credit. A recent causal analysis confirmed that Statway dramatically increased students' success rates in half the time across two different cohorts. These impressive results were also obtained across gender and race/ethnicity groups. However, there is still room for improvement. Students who did not succeed in Statway often did not complete the first of the two-course sequence. Therefore, the objective of this study is to formulate a series of indicators from self-report and online learning system data, alerting instructors to students' progress during the first weeks of the first course in the Statway sequence.