A complicated question — and a quick answer. It depends. We all know this — yet, we keep looking for the silver bullet to solve our student success challenges. The …
Eight Nuanced Ideas When Understanding Results from Matched Pilots
In our prior post, we addressed the most common issues with outcomes reporting through Three Big Ideas. Now we are going to dig in deeper with eight nuanced topics for …
The Secret Sauce for Strong Signal Processing
I wanted to take this opportunity to investigate the important role of digital signal processing and machine learning in improving our ability to harness student success knowledge from SIS, LMS, …
Is RCT the Gold Standard?
Randomized controlled trials (RCTs) have been touted as the gold standard in causal inference for many years. But is it true? Is there room to leverage modern data analytics to …
Building Data Literacy at Utah State University
To kick-off the new academic year, Utah State University recently held their 2017 Analytics Leadership Workshop as an opportunity to introduce Civitas Learning and their Learning Analytics initiative to a …
Taking Action with Confidence
In Part 1 of this series, we looked at the power of our predictions to detect persistence risk and showed you how these predictive models were detecting, on average, 82 …
Trusting the Predictions
One of the questions often asked by Civitas Learning partners is, “How do I know I can trust a prediction and be confident in taking action?” This is an extremely …
Initiative Impact Analysis for Institutional Researchers
At the recent AIR Forum event, Civitas Learning’s Chief Data Scientist, Dave Kil, was joined by Montgomery County Community College’s Executive Director of Institutional Research, David Kowalski, on a panel …
Learning Brief: USF Transformation Increases Retention & Graduation Rates
“A fundamental principle of our student success initiative is this: we believe all students can and will succeed if given the opportunity to do so. Our students have demonstrated that. …
Partner Profile: Dr. Colleen Carmean, UW Tacoma
Dr. Colleen Carmean presented at numerous conference presentations throughout 2016, including two where she co-presented with Civitas Learning: AASCU and WCET. This interview gives you a chance to know her …