Student Success Does Not Arise by Chance
2013 GICA Student Retention Conference
Atlanta, GA
October 30, 2013
Vincent Tinto
vtinto@syr.edu
Lesson Learned
Improvement in rates of student success
requires intentional, structured, and systematic
action that coordinates the actions of many
people and programs across campus.
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Actions to Promote Student Success:
✓ Expectations
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Clear, consistent, and reliable expectations
– Knowing where to go and what to do
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Actions to Promote Student Success:
✓ Expectations
✓ Clear, consistent, and reliable expectations
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High Expectations
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Conditions for Student Success
➜ Expectations
➜ Support
– Academic Support
– Social Support
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Providing Academic Support
• Student success course
• Contextualized academic support
- Supplemental instruction
- Embedded academic support (I-Best)
- Basic skills learning communities
- Adaptive learning
- Redesigned developmental courses
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Supplemental Instruction (SI)
Freshman English
Instructor
Supplemental
Study Groups
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Tutor A
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C
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Tutor B
Tutor C
Tutor D
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Linked Courses
English as Second Language
(ESL)
Accounting
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“The relationship between accounting and ESL
is helping a lot because the accounting professor
is teaching us to answer questions in complete
sentences, to write better. And we are more
motivated to learn vocabulary because it is
accounting vocabulary, something we want to
learn about anyway. I am learning accounting
better by learning the accounting language better.”
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Freshman Learning Community
English
Accounting
Student Success Course
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Providing Social Support
• Counselors
• Mentors
• Cohort programs
• First-year learning communities
• Student clubs/organizations
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Learning Communities and Social Support
“In the cluster we knew each other, we were friends,
we discussed everything from all the classes. We
knew things very, very well because we discussed it
all so much. We had discussions about everything…
it was like a raft running the rapids of my life.”
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Promoting Student Success
➜ Expectations
➜ Support
➜ Assessment
and Feedback
- Entry assessment and placement
- Early warning
• Signals Project
• Adaptive Learning and Predictive Analytics
- Classroom assessment
• One-minute paper
• Automated response systems
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Conditions for Student Success
 Expectations
 Support
 Assessment
and Feedback
 Engagement
- Contact with students, faculty, and staff
- Active engagement in learning with others
- Intensity / time-on-task
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Promoting Student Success
➜ Expectations
➜ Support
➜ Assessment
and Feedback
➜ Engagement
– Pedagogies of engagement
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Cooperative learning, Problem/Project-based learning
“Flipped” classrooms
Learning communities
Service learning
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“You know, the more I talk to other people
about our class stuff, the homework, the tests,
the more I’m actually learning... and the more
I learn not only about other people, but also
about the subject because my brain is getting
more, because I’m getting more involved with
the other students in the class. I’m getting more
involved with the class even after class.”
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Thank You
Please feel free to contact me if
I can be of assistance.
vtinto@syr.edu
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