Early Alert Summary
2013-2014
Student Success Center
Gordon State College
Student Participation..........................................................................................................................2
Early Alert Intervention Analysis Fall 2013........................................................................................2
Professor Feedback Fall 2014.............................................................................................................3
1 Student Success Center Early Alert
Student Participation
Fall 2013
Spring
Fall 2014*
Students Referred
404
412
666
Interventions
242
212
436
Percentage of Students
Met
60%
51%
65%
*As of October
Early Alert Intervention Analysis Fall
2013
Institutional Research’s numbers were extremely useful, but they focused on Early
Alert students’ overall academic performance.
We took a closer look, focusing on just the
outcomes in the class (or classes) for which
the student was referred. The EA interventions tend to focus on that specific class(es),
and solutions (tutoring, SI, etc.) tended to be
“class specific.”
es) for which they were referred. We further broke down the overall group to look at
students who came before President Burns’s
robo-call (“first wave” students) and students
who came in after the robo-call (“post-robo”
students). As we might predict, the performance of the “first wave” students exceeded
that of the “post-robo” students. Below I
have included pie charts for each possible
course outcomes (A, B, C, etc.) that show the
distribution of that outcome between “first
wave” and “post-robo” students.
The table below summarizes Early Alert students’ performance in only the class (or class-
A
B
C
D
F
WF
IP
W
Outcomes,
All Referred
Classes
(300
total
courses)
5
37
76
22
44
52
25
39
Percent.
1.6%
12.3%
25.3%
7.3%
14.6%
17.3%
8.3%
13%
2 Student Success Center Early Alert
Referred
Class
Outcomes,
First
Wave
Students
Only
(118 total)
4
20
36
7
10
18
9
14
Percent.
3.3%
16.9%
30.5%
5.9%
8.4%
15.2%
7.6%
11.8%
Referred
Class
Outcomes,
PostRobo
Students
Only
(182 total)
1
17
40
15
34
34
16
25
Percent.
.5%
9.3%
21.9%
8.2%
18.6%
18.6%
8.7%
13.7%
Professor Feedback Fall 2014
Attendance
Grades
Participation
Student is doing much
better
22.5% (9/40)
30.4 % (32/105)
32.3% (21/65)
Student is doing a little
better
37.5% (15/40)
38% (40/105)
26.1% (17/65)
No improvement /student’s performance got
worse
40% (16/40)
31.4% (33/105)
41.5% (27/65)
In mid- to late October, we sent out followup surveys to referring faculty on all 244
first-year students who attended an Early
Alert intervention. We asked faculty to gauge
improvement—or lack thereof—in the area
for which student was referred (Attendance,
Grades, Participation, or all of the above) in
that particular class.
3 Student Success Center Early Alert
We received responses on 113 students, or
roughly 46% of the total number who attended an intervention. We quantified results only
for students who were still in the class (that
is, they had not officially withdrawn from the
class(es) for which they were referred). The
results are tabulated above.
According to these faculty responses, we
seem to have had the biggest impact in the
“Grades” category, with 68.4% of the students showing at least slight improvement,
and 30.4% showing significant improvement.
According to these faculty responses, we
seem to have had the least impact in the “Attendance” category, with 40% of the students
showing no improvement (or getting worse)
and only 22.5% of the students showing significant improvement.
It was disappointing not to hear back from
more referring faculty, but this was the first
semester we solicited such feedback, so we
will keep trying.
4 Student Success Center Early Alert