Below you'll find a list of all posts that have been categorized as “Data Science”
New research from Civitas Learning explores the types of student success programs that work—and for whom—providing a clearer, quicker path toward student equity. The willingness to go beyond assumptions—and then respond accordingly—can be the difference between spending years researching the issue of equity, or moving ahead now with initiatives that facilitate more equitable outcomes.
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 …
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 …
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, …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
“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. …
