1. It’s Better to Lead Than Lag
Focus on What Matters:
It’s Better to Lead Than Lag
Brad C. Phillips
President/CEO
© all material copyright IEBC, 2017

2. What Data Do You Pay Attention To?

3. Today’s Objectives Upon completion of this webinar, participants will:
Understand the concept of leading and lagging indicators
Be able to identify leading and lagging indicators for your work
Determine what leading indicators can be used in your work right away

4. Leading and Lagging Indicators: Introducing the Concept

5. Leading and Lagging Indicators: Introducing the Concept

6. Leading and Lagging Indicators: Introducing the Concept

7. Leading and Lagging in Your Life
Weight loss
Fitbit
Exercise
Having a good breakfast
Feel good
Able to focus
Likely lead to a good day

8. What’s in a Name? Leading Lagging Predictive What’s already happened
You can control
Little control
Proactive
Reactive
Sometimes hard to capture
Usually easy to capture
Formative
Summative
Many
Few

9. Leading and Lagging: Parallels to Linear Regression?
Regression is used to identify the strength of the effect that the independent variable(s) – Leading Indicators have on a dependent variable – Lagging Indicator
Typical questions are what is the strength of relationship between, for example, dose and effect, marketing dollars spent and sales?

10. Lagging Leading Sample Goal: Leading and Lagging Indicators Completion
Milestones
30 units, Core Curriculum
Term to Term Persistence
Successful Course Grade (A,B,C)
Retained in Class
(All non-W’s)
Leading

11. Leading and Lagging Indicators
Academic Outcomes Data
Student Services Data
Completion
Milestones
30 units, Core Curriculum
Persistence
Successful Course Grade
Retained in Class
Completion
Progress Monitoring
Student support Intervention outcomes
Monitoring course taking patterns
Determination of Goals

12. Leading & Lagging Indicators: Relationships

13. Leading & Lagging Indicators: Relationships
Slept well
Good breakfast
Out of house on time
A Good Day

14. Leading & Lagging Indicators: Relationships

15. Leading & Lagging Indicators: Relationships
Remedial Courses
College Level Courses
Complete Major Course Sequence
Cert/Deg. Transfer

16. Leading & Lagging Indicators: Relationships

17. Leading & Lagging Indicators: Relationships
Show-up for class
Pass exams
Complete Course Successfully
Complete Capstone Project

18. Leading & Lagging Indicators: The Role of Perspective
What is leading and what is lagging depends on where you stand

19. A Real World Example: Odessa College

20. Class Drop Rates

21. Possible Causes

22. Student Factors

23. Instructor Interviews: Bright Spots

24. Findings

25. Outcomes After Intervention

26. In Class Retention Rate After Drop Rate Improvement Program

27. Student Course Success Rates and Graduation Improvements

28. A Look at Leading and Lagging from Odessa’s Perspective
Completion
Earning Units towards Completion
Term to Term Persistence
Successful Course Grade (A,B,C)
Retained in Class
(All non-W’s)

29. IEBC Data Use Publication and Workshop Series
Creating a Data-Informed Culture in Community Colleges: A New Model for Educators, published by Harvard Education Press, Fall, 2017
Workshops series
Data Use demystified
How to tell a story with data
Leading and lagging indicators
How to integrate data into a meeting
And 7 others

30. President/Chief Executive Officer, Institute for Evidence-Based Change
Q&A and Discussion
Brad C. Phillips, Ph.D
President/Chief Executive Officer, Institute for Evidence-Based Change