2019 Learning Impact Leadership Institute

One of the key components of the California State University System’s Graduation Initiative 2025 (GI 2025) is, “supporting faculty innovation and course redesign efforts to improve student outcomes, especially in courses with historically high failure rates.” With approximately 1,000 students, San Diego State University’s Elementary Statistics for Business (STAT 119) has a persistent D/F grade rate of more than 20 percent each semester.

In response to the call for increased student success in challenging gateway courses, Instructional Technology Services at SDSU, STAT 119 faculty, and Pearson, have partnered in a data-intensive pilot to identify the areas where students would benefit most from real-time, data-informed interventions and faculty support.

This panel presentation will give a look into the big data project, which includes item-level analyses of students’ engagement with MyStatLab homework and quiz courseware, paired with SDSU’s learning management and student information system data. Altogether, these data constitute hundreds of variables, enabling us to analyze the actual student interaction in conjunction with student demographic and performance information.