Building Pathways to Student Success
Ohio State University
January 27, 2015
Vincent Tinto
Distinguished University Professor Emeritus
Syracuse University
vtinto@syr.edu
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Lessons Learned:
Improvement in rates of student success
does not arise by chance. It requires an
intentional, structured, and coordinated
course of action that brings together the
actions of many people, programs, and
offices across campus.
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Lessons Learned:
Classroom success, especially in the first
year of college, is the foundation upon which
student success is built.
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Lessons Learned:
College completion requires the timely
completion of an orderly sequence of courses
over time.
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Conditions for Student Success
➜ Expectations
– Clear, consistent, accurate information
• Knowing what to do
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Conditions for Student Success
➜ Expectations
– Clear, consistent, accurate information
• Knowing what to do
– High expectations
• No one rises to low expectations
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Conditions for Student Success
➜ Expectations
➜ Support
– Academic Support
– Social Support
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Providing Academic Support
• Summer Bridge
• Student success course
• Contextualized academic support
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Supplemental instruction (e.g. Univ. of Missouri-Kansas City)
Embedded academic support (I-Best)
Basic skills linked courses
Accelerated learning
Intensified pathways to college mathematics
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Supplemental Instruction (SI)
Freshman English
Instructor
Supplemental
Study Groups
A
Tutor A
B
C
D
Tutor B
Tutor C
Tutor D
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Basic Skills Linked Courses
ESL Developmental English
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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First-Year 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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Conditions for Student Success
Expectations
➜ Support
➜ Assessment and Feedback
➜
- Entry assessment and placement
- Early warning
• Signals Project
• 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 faculty, staff, and students
– Active engagement in learning with others
– Time-on-task
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Promoting Student Engagement
➜
Pedagogies of engagement
- Cooperative/collaborative learning
- Problem/Project-based learning (e.g. University of Delaware)
➜
Hybrid/Blended classrooms
➜
Cohort programs
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Learning communities (e.g. University of Washington)
➜
Service learning
Residential programs
Co-Curricular programs
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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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Promoting Student Completion
Completion requires the timely completion of
many courses one after the other over time.
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Promoting Degree Completion
• Removing curricular roadblocks
➜ Transforming
courses with high D,F, W rates
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Promoting Degree Completion
• Removing curricular roadblocks
• Constructing coherent curricular pathways
that speed progress to degree completion
(e.g Arizona State University, Georgia State University)
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Closing Thought:
In the final analysis student success is
everyone’s business. It take a community.
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