Driver 2 - Supportive Instructor & Course Interactions

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Evidence Base

Institutional leaders understand that measurement is key to meaningful change. Without measurement, institutions can try many evidence-based, psychologically-attuned practices — and some of them might even work. But they’ll never know how and for whom they were effective. With institutional resources and bandwidth increasingly limited, it is more important than ever to use data to understand the return on investment for any new initiative. These data help build a case to administrations about how and where to spread them. While most institutions already track academic outcomes (e.g., DFWs, persistence), few track student experiences systematically. The SEP developed a portfolio of shared measures to learn about student experience in depth and over time, as well as to support day-to-day improvement work with student experiences in classes. The SEP also adapted survey measures from research literature to provide evidence-based, actionable, and practical measures for busy instructors to use in their classes to more easily identify opportunities for improvement and track their progress.

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Project for Education Research that Scales (PERTS)

Overview

Ascend is a free, data-driven professional learning program that enables college instructors and administrators to learn how their students are experiencing courses and what they can do to make those experiences more equitable, more engaging, and more supportive of student success.

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Project for Education Research that Scales (PERTS)

College Transition Collaborative/Equity Accelerator

Overview

SEP campuses measured student experience using validated survey questions that measure institutional growth mindset, social belonging, trust and fairness, identity safety, self-efficacy, social connectedness, and belonging certainty. These questions can be used as a stand-alone tool for institutions looking to better understand students’ experiences.