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1 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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2 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. 2 Improvement in rates Lessons Learned:
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3 Classroom success, especially in the first year of college, is the foundation upon which student success is built. 3 Improvement in rates Lessons Learned:
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4 College completion requires the timely completion of an orderly sequence of courses over time. 4 Improvement in rates Lessons Learned:
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5 Conditions for Student Success ➜ Expectations –Clear, consistent, accurate information Knowing what to do
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6 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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8 Conditions for Student Success ➜ Expectations ➜ Support –Academic Support –Social Support
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9 Providing Academic Support Summer Bridge Student success course Contextualized academic support 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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10 Supplemental Instruction (SI) ABCD Instructor Tutor A Tutor B Tutor C Tutor D Freshman English Supplemental Study Groups
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12 Basic Skills Linked Courses ESL Developmental English Accounting
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13 “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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14 First-Year Learning Community English Student Success CourseAccounting
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15 Providing Social Support Counselors Mentors Cohort programs First year learning communities Student clubs/organizations
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17 “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.” Learning Communities and Social Support
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18 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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19 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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20 Promoting Student Engagement ➜ Pedagogies of engagement - Cooperative/collaborative learning - Problem/Project-based learning (e.g. University of Delaware) ➜ Hybrid/Blended classrooms ➜ Cohort programs ➜ Learning communities (e.g. University of Washington) ➜ Service learning ➜ Residential programs ➜ Co-Curricular programs
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23 “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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24 Promoting Student Completion Completion requires the timely completion of many courses one after the other over time.
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25 Promoting Degree Completion Removing curricular roadblocks ➜ Transforming courses with high D,F, W rates
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26 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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27 Closing Thought: In the final analysis student success is everyone’s business. It take a community. 27
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