Institutional Analytics Campus Manager Indiana University Kokomo Kokomo, Indiana, United States
Session Abstract: Planning and successfully implementing student engagement can be a herculean and important task, but it is only part of the equation. Successfully recording who came and to what makes the difference between great assessment and no assessment! But how can an entire campus, or even better, university system, ensure data are collected accurately, consistently, and with enough information to inform decision-making? Even more difficult is creating a campus culture where collecting attendance is expected, where every group follows the same process. When this happens, students, faculty, and staff all know what to expect and how to do it. This session discusses a process implemented that has ensured planned events capture all this information––who came, to what, when, and how many events were attended. These data are saved for longitudinal research, merged with institutional data, and used to effectively evaluate the effects of student participation on retention, graduation rates, and more!
Keywords: student engagement, data collection, campus collaboration, assessment, high-impact practices
