WCET receives grant for pioneering Higher Education Research Analytic
Boulder, CO (NYSE) 16 May 2011
WICHE, the Western Interstate Commission for Higher Education announced today that WCET, the Cooperative for Educational Technologies WICHE was, with a $ 1,000,000 grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to fund an initiative to unify the student data from six U.S. institutions and to demonstrate the effective use of predictive analytic methods to improve student performance. The aim is variable, student retention and progression, and decisions lead to middle school students graduated in the USA
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This grant for the Predictive Analytics Reporting (PAR) framework is aggregated data representing more than 400,000 student records from six WCET member institutions: American Public University System, Colorado Community College System, Rio Salado College, University of Hawaii System, University of Springfield Illinois, and University of Phoenix. Each participating institution has engaged in the implementation or descriptive, inferential or predictive analytics projects on their own student information, the PAR framework builds on this work through exploration of patterns that derived when the six institutional records as a single, unified sample can be considered.
The principal investigator Phil Ice, Ed.D., American Public University System (APU) is. The project will be awarded to contain many of the best practices and award-winning predictive analytical methods, has been recognized for Dr. Ice by the Sloan Consortium and is the project partner, Dr. Vernon Smith, Rio Salado College, has won the WCET Outstanding Work (WOW) . Beth Davis has WCET, WCET appointed, would serve as the project director.
“We all have a vested interest in improving student achievement in the United States. WCET is thrilled that the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has given us the opportunity to convene this exemplary team of member institutions,” says Dr. Ellen Wagner, Executive Director, WCET. “Our ability to bring together public and proprietary institutions to cooperate to solve key problems such as educational ones, the PAR research will be one of the things that WCET unique. We are proud to support the leadership efforts of our members, and look forward to uncovering patterns, inform decision making for improving student retention, progression and completion. “
About WCET
The WICHE Cooperative for Educational Technologies (WCET) is a cooperative, membership-driven, non-profit provider of solutions and services to accelerate the adoption of effective practices and policies to advance excellence in technology-enhanced lessons and learning in higher education. More information about institutional membership WCET of the resources, services and interest groups can http://wcet.wiche.edu on the WCET website. Be
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