An Analytics Handbook: Moving From Evidence to Impact

Abstract

2019) represents a collection of studies on the emerging topic of big data used in educational institutions to facilitate student success through effective communication, acceleration of information, and proper nudging students toward better options in their academic endeavors. Split into three main parts; the book identifies the primary reasons for an uncompromised implementation of analytics to gather, translate, and leverage data in a cyclic manner from simply reporting to instigating persistence and learning out of the whole process.

Integrated Planning: The “Difference that Makes a Difference” in Institutional Effectiveness Over Time

“…Directors and coordinators of assessment can help with this complexity when IP is used to drive priorities and assessment. The capacity to leverage data to promote students' learning and holistic development emerges from a process that enables colleges and universities to see essential learning outcomes as a comprehensive plan, identify the underlying operations that are causing problems, and to figure out how to use the results of assessment initiatives to inform decisions (Baer, 2019). Thus, IP without assessment built into it will not work.…”