Insights for Timely Action: Leading Indicators for Students Success

Session Abstract: Most institutions have methods to identify students at risk of non-completion by looking at contextual factors and on student success indicators such as credit completion, retention, and graduation, but too often the indicators used to determine success and drive action are lagging behind student's experience and behavior. This session will provide an overview of a project to research, define, automate, and visualize leading indicators of student success. Leading indicators are defined as enabling timely intervention with students within a week of a defined behavior that has been shown to impact student success outcomes. We will cover research projects completed for high-value indicators, how we collaborated with student affairs, the technical set up for data automation in our data warehouse (Snowflake), visualization in our BI tool (Power BI), and future plans.

Keywords: Student Success, Dashboard, Actionable Data, Automation, Analytics