Incubator
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Workforce Outcomes
Thanks to generous funding from Strada Education Foundation, the NISS is launching a new research project in Fall ’24 exploring students’ post-graduation outcomes. Given Georgia State’s success in improving its graduation rates and that the data-driven proactive student success model’s components were initiated almost 15 years ago, it is both timely and feasible now to extend the assessments to include post-graduation outcomes. The goal of this project is to understand whether specific aspects of the student success model lead to measurable differences in career outcomes. The insights obtained from this project will improve our understanding of how various programs impact the achievement of strong and equitable career outcomes, especially for students from underserved backgrounds.
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TEACH ME
Georgia State University (GSU) was awarded a $7.6 million grant through the U.S. Department of Education’s Postsecondary Student Success Program. This grant supports the National Institute for Student Success (NISS) at GSU and its partners, including Morgan State University and the University of Central Florida in its implementation of the Technology Enhanced Academic Communication to Help in Math & English (TEACH ME) project. The grant will fund a project to study the impact of AI-enhanced chatbots on student outcomes, specifically targeting first-year math and English courses. The chatbots aim to improve grades and retention rates for all students.
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NISS Evaluation & Assessment
Clients work with NISS coaches to produce recommendations to improve students’ outcomes on their campus. Ongoing assessment of the NISS Diagnostic process and institutions’ uptake of the recommendations provided to them – alongside their outcomes – is key to generating innovative recommendations that improve student outcomes. The NISS regularly surveys all client institutions after the conclusion of their engagement. Every Recommendation, Action, and Step are accounted for in the survey and alignment across responders is considered. Evaluation work is ongoing though initial findings indicate significant progress for our partners, particularly in the Proactive Advising, Academic Design and Support, Data, and Financial Wellness areas.
Short Takes
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Time to Degree Diagnostic Tutorial
This tutorial will guide you through an example of how to operationalize data for student success. Hypothetical institutional data of…
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A Path to Success: Microgrants and Degree Completion
In 2010, Georgia State University (GSU) administrators discovered that more than 1,000 students were being dropped each semester due to…
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Keep Hope Alive Outcomes
Funded by the Georgia Lottery, the Helping Outstanding Pupils Educationally (HOPE) scholarship is awarded to Georgia residents who demonstrate academic…