Early Alert System and Online Grading

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Early Alert System and Online Grading

• Kit Mayberry
• 17 September 2003

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At-Risk First Year Students
2000 cohort not returning 2001 and/or 2002 87
received D/F/W year 1 (n 458) 2001 cohort
not returning 2002 72 received D/F/W year 1 (n
318)
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At-Risk First Year Students
Students receiving D/W/F first year are about
half as likely to graduate as those without first
year D/W/F
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Conclusion
First-year students receiving D/W/F,
regardless of GPA, are at significant risk of
attrition. or Best predictor of success gpa
progress toward degree D/W/F/I compromises one
or both
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First-year characteristics

• High achievers
• Sensitive to failure
• Intimidated by
• faculty
• Unfamiliar with
• support systems
• Came to RIT for a
• particular program

• Undeveloped work
• ethic
• Little exposure to
• more advanced
• students
• Immature
• Long, tightly packed
• programs

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What you can doFaculty role

• Get ample feedback from students (graded and
  ungraded)
• Encourage out-of-class contact with students
• Announce support services early in course (e.g.,
  LDC, tutors, labs, etc.)
• Normalize certain fears and experiences

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What you can doFaculty advisor role

• Establish early and continuing relationship
• with advisees
• Familiarize yourself with support services
• Normalize certain fears and experiences
• Attend T L workshops on advising

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Early Alert System
Provides you with a simple, straightforward way
to notify a student of how he or she is
performing in your class. Predicated on
significant early graded activity (1st 3 weeks)
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Accessing Early Alert

• http//www.rit.edu/webtools/infocenter/
• Requires DCE account special
• password
• Notice of use
• Class List under Main Menu on
• Faculty/Staff Advising System

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Early Alert Instructions

• Recipient possibilities
• Student
• Department Head
• First Advisor
• Second Advisor
• FYE Coach
• Other

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Early Alert Instructions Senders

• Initiates transaction, not mere notification
• Be as specific as possible
• Give student a next steps recommendation
• Always include a strong recommendation to
• see you (the instructor)
• Dont take being ignored for an answer
• Help student develop an improvement plan

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Early Alert InstructionsFaculty Advisor
(Recipient)

• Do everything you can think of to get student
• in to see you
• Confer with FYE coach if you think there are
• issues other than academic ones
• Help student develop an improvement plan
• Follow up with student

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Early Alert InstructionsFaculty Advisor

• Do everything you can think of to get student
• in to see you
• Confer with FYE coach if you think there are
• issues other than academic ones
• Help student develop an improvement plan
• Follow up with student

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Online Grading
Also on Main Menu page of Faculty/Staff
Advising System Online grading will become
mandatory