Case study of how Argosy University uses SmarterMeasure integrated with Pearson Learning Studio. Presenters Dr. Mac Adkins and Kate Noone

1. Using Student Readiness Data
to Improve Retention:
An exploration of how Argosy University
uses SmarterMeasure within
Pearson LearningStudio

2. • Housekeeping/Agenda
• Lines are muted
• Questions/Chat tool
• Starter Questions
• Introductions
• Dr. Mac Adkins - SmarterServices
• Kate Noone – Argosy University
• Jason Fill – SmarterServices

3. Dr. Mac Adkins
President/CEO SmarterServices

4. • SmarterServices provides a suite of four services which
were created by educators to meet specific needs of
distance educators.
• Identifying and supporting at-risk learners
• Collecting and reporting learner perceptions
• Finding experienced, qualified online faculty
• Identifying and managing testing proctors
• We have provided services since 2002.
• Currently serving over 350 colleges and universities.

5. Using Student Readiness Data
to Improve Retention

6. WHAT?
•Web-based, diagnostic assessment
•Completely hosted
•Measures a student’s goodness of fit for elearning.
1. Individual Attributes
2. Learning Styles
3. On Screen Reading Rate and Recall
4. Technical Competency and Knowledge
5. Typing Speed and Accuracy
6. Life Factors

7. WHAT makes SmarterMeasure
so special?
CUSTOM OPTIONS STUDENT SERVICES STUDENT DATA
IDENTIFIES AT-RISK EMPOWERS STUDENTS INDUSTRY LEADER

8. WHY?
Misconceptions about eLearning
I can do my classes in my free time
Taking an online class is an easy A
Online classes are easier
I don’t have to read a textbook
I’m good at computers so this will be easy
Help Students Understand How to Succeed
Knowledge is power
Clarity on strengths and opportunities for growth
Remedial help

9. Benefits from SmarterMeasure

10. Dr. Kate Noone
Vice President for Online and
Distance Learning

11. Enhancing the Student Experience
Enhancing the Student Experience
• Ask students to choose a skill or
individual attribute and create a
personal development plan for
improvement.
• Group students with like skill
sets and have them develop a
collective development plan
• Include the results in a
classroom assignment where
the students identify their plans
to improve
• Use data to identify at risk
students. Offer the at risk
students tutorial opportunities

12. Enhancing the Institutional Experience
Use with at-risk students
• IDENTIFY students who
scored in the lower range
• ENCOURAGE student
advisors to be proactive with
contact and support.
• OFFER support tutorials for
the students who are
deficient in some of the skills
and attributes.

13. Enhancing the Institutional Experience
• Use results to gather info
about student body
• COMPARE student data.
• EXPLORE correlations
between the SmarterMeasure
scores and student
satisfaction, retention or GPA
• TREND mean scores for
incoming students to gauge
changes in student body

14. Student Readiness and Retention
• Study - used the SmarterMeasure results to evaluate
the correlations between student readiness for
distance learning and one-year student retention.
• Population - undergraduate students enrolled in
online and blended programs.
• Results - showed some positive significance between
technical skills, time management and motivation
and one-year retention.

15. Jason Fill
Vice President of Development
SmarterServices

16. Integration Objectives
• Provide students one click access into SmarterMeasure
assessment
• Provide instructors an easy way to track assessment
completion
• Provide instructors a means of drilling into each score report
from within Pearson LearningStudio

17. How it works
1. Your SmarterMeasure & Pearson LearningStudio
accounts are provisioned for the integration
2. Course designer or instructor embeds the link in the
course.

18. Data sent to SmarterMeasure
• Course ID (coid)
• Display Course Code (dcc)
• Course Code (cc)
• Course Title (ct)
• Term ID (ti)
• Student ID (lid)

24. Contact Information
Dr. Mac Adkins – mac@SmarterServices.com
Dr. Kate Noone – knoone@Argosy.edu