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Using the National Student Clearinghouse for Outcomes Data. Mary Ann Coughlin Jean Wyld Joseph R Bjerklie Rachel Albert . Agenda. National Student Clearinghouse What is the Clearinghouse? What Data is Available Through the Clearinghouse? - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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Using the National Student Clearinghouse for Outcomes
Data
Mary Ann CoughlinJean Wyld
Joseph R BjerklieRachel Albert
AgendaO National Student Clearinghouse
O What is the Clearinghouse?O What Data is Available Through the Clearinghouse?
O National Discussion -- Measuring Student OutcomesO Traditional Retention / Grad Rates O Non-first Full-time Degree Certificate Seeking Students
O Campus LevelO Common Research Questions
O Admitted/Did not EnrollO Students who leave -- Where did they go
O Other Questions that NSC can shed some light on…O Enrollment in Graduate ProgramsO Student Swirl & Concurrent Enrollment
O Implications for Academic LeadersO National Student Clearinghouse Research Center
Quick FactsO National Student Clearinghouse founded in 1993
O Non-profit organizationO Board of Directors comprised of leaders in postsecondary education,
K-12 education, research and education finance
O National Student Clearinghouse Research Center created in 2010O Non-profit organizationO Board of Directors comprised of research experts from postsecondary
education, K-12 education, and multistate organizationsO National Reports – Hot off the Presses – Signature Report on
“Completing College: A National View of Student Attainment Rates”
O Advisory CommitteesO Data Access Advisory Committee
O Provides guidance on use of data and researchO Clearinghouse Advisory Committee
O Provides guidance on institutional burdens and how NSC can help
What Services?O NSC offers a wide range of services to both K-12
and postsecondary institutions.O Services range from enrollment verification to
degree verification to transcript ordering, to student tracking to gainful employment reporting.
O Three main services:O EnrollmentVerifyO DegreeVerifyO Student Tracker
O Services are most well known to Registrars and Financial Aid Officers.O Also many Institutional Researchers familiar with
Student Tracker.
Scope of ServicesMore than 3,300 colleges and universities use NSC services; enrolling over 96% of all students in public and private U.S. institutions
DegreeVerify, represents over 80% of U.S. four-year degrees. Over two million degrees are confirmed through DegreeVerify each year.
More than 2,600 institutions use enrollment verification service. More than 1.7 million enrollment verifications are performed through EnrollmentVerify each year.
Transcripts are requested for more than one million recipients each year via Transcript Ordering service.
Student Self-Service program is used by more than 2.5 million students each year.
Clearinghouse -- IPEDS
O It is important to note the differences between NSC data and IPEDS data.
NSC Data IPEDS DataUnit of Analysis Unit of Analysis
Individual Student Records Institutional Level -- Aggregated
Data Available Data AvailableParticipating Institutions All Title IV Institutions
Analyses Supported Analyses SupportedLongitudinal Benchmarking
Measuring Student Success Outcomes:A National Discussion
Traditional Metrics
• IPEDS Data• Graduation
Rates• Retention
Rates
• Cohort Based• First-time
Full-time (FTFT)
• Degree & Certificate Seeking (D&SC)
Main Factors
• Defining student success outcomes• Retention• Persistence• Graduation
• For which students? • FTFT D&SC?• Non-First Time• All Students?
Recent Initiatives
• Access to Success
• Complete College America
• Transparency by Design
• Student Learning Progress Model – University of Alaska Anchorage
• Voluntary Framework of Accountability
• Voluntary System of Accountability
Recent Initiatives
Accessing NSC Data – Student Tracker
Campus Analysesto Support Program Review
Admitted Students Did not Enroll – Where are they now?
Students who graduate – Do they enroll in Graduate
School?
Enrollment in Graduate Programs
Matriculated students who left your institution – Where are they now Did they transfer?
Did they graduate
2005-06 2006-07 2007-08 2008-09 2009-10 2010-11 2011-120%
10%
20%
30%
40%
50%
60%
70%
80%
90%
100%First Time Student Entering Fall 2005
Retained at UMFK
2-year degree from UMFK
4-year degree from UMFK
2005-06 2006-07 2007-08 2008-09 2009-10 2010-11 2011-120%
10%
20%
30%
40%
50%
60%
70%
80%
90%
100%First Time Student Entering Fall 2005
Transferred to other 2-year in-stitution
Transferred to other 4-year in-stitution
Retained at UMFK
2-year degree from UMFK
4-year degree from UMFK
2005-06 2006-07 2007-08 2008-09 2009-10 2010-11 2011-120%
10%
20%
30%
40%
50%
60%
70%
80%
90%
100%First Time Student Entering Fall 2005
2-year degree from other in-stitution
4-year degree from other in-stitution
Retained at other 2-year institution
Retained at other 4-year institution
Retained at UMFK
2-year degree from UMFK
4-year degree from UMFK
UNIVERSITY OF MAINE, ORONO
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN MAINE
UNIVERSITY OF MAINE, PRESQUE ISLE
EASTERN MAINE COMMUNITY COLLEGE
NORTHERN MAINE COMMUNITY COLLEGE
UNIVERSITY OF MAINE, AUGUSTA
HUSSON COLLEGE
SAINT JOSEPH'S COLLEGE OF MAINE
UNIVERSITY OF NEW ENGLAND
0.0% 5.0% 10.0% 15.0% 20.0% 25.0%
Fall 2009 Students - Destination of Transfer
UNIVERSITY OF MAINE, AUGUSTA
UNIVERSITY OF MAINE AT MACHIAS
UNIVERSITY OF MAINE, ORONO
UNIVERSITY OF MAINE, PRESQUE ISLE
SAINT JOSEPH'S COLLEGE OF MAINE
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN MAINE
SOUTHERN UTAH UNIVERSITY
UNIVERSITY OF NEW ENGLAND
WALDEN UNIVERSITY
0% 5% 10% 15% 20% 25% 30% 35% 40%
Fall 2009 Students Also Registered at Other Schools
UNIVERSITY OF MAINE, AUGUSTA
UNIVERSITY OF MAINE AT MACHIAS
UNIVERSITY OF MAINE, ORONO
UNIVERSITY OF MAINE, PRESQUE ISLE
SAINT JOSEPH'S COLLEGE OF MAINE
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN MAINE
SOUTHERN UTAH UNIVERSITY
UNIVERSITY OF NEW ENGLAND
WALDEN UNIVERSITY
0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% 60% 70% 80% 90% 100%
Fall 2009 Students Also Enrolled at Later Transfer Destination
Benefits of StudentTracker SystemO Institutional-level data are readily
availableO Opens up options for studies on the topic
of access O External data sources, both local and
nationalO Inform the discussion of postsecondary
access for students O Inform decisions regarding college
access and student success
Importance of NSC StudentTracker Data Today
O Fast-paced change in educationO Changing demographicsO Value of higher educationO College administrators under greater
pressureO Transitioning from “data-poor” to
“data-rich”O Need to remain competitiveO Data driven decisions
Implications for Academic Leaders
O Enables enhanced information for decision making
O Provides easy access to informationO Promotes cost-effective analyses O Improves understanding of patterns
that helps to better serve studentsO Assists in answering key questions
Potential Value-Added for Academic Leaders
O Provides a more complete picture of student success outcomes
O Only source of data that can be used to track students longitudinally across state lines and across sectors
O Data can also be analyzed at the program level
O Raise student achievement and success
Recommended Actions to Effectively Use Data
O Establish a clear vision for institutional data use
O Provide support that promotes a data-driven culture within your institution
O Make data an ongoing part of instructional improvement - ask the questions
O Use data to promote student achievement and success
O Focus on efforts that support students’ paths to graduation
National Student Clearinghouse Research Center
O Purpose:O The National Student Clearinghouse Research Center
collaborates with higher education institutions, states, school districts, individual high schools, educational organizations and the U.S. Department of Education as part of a national effort to better inform education leaders and policymakers.
O Goal:O Through accurate longitudinal data outcomes reporting, the
National Student Clearinghouse Research Center enables better educational policy decisions leading to improved student outcomes.
O Products:O Signature ReportsO Snapshots
O Signature Reports provide comparison data that reveal patterns and valuable insight on students' postsecondary access, persistence, and other success outcomes.
O Four Reports have been released1. Understanding the Recession's Impact on U.S. College
Enrollment and Persistence Patterns2. Transfer & Mobility: A National View of Pre-Degree Student
Movement in Postsecondary Institutions3. Reverse Transfer: A National View of Student Mobility from
Four-Year to Two-Year Institutions4. Completing College: A National View of Student Attainment
Rates
O Available at:O www.studentclearinghouse.info/signature/
Completing CollegeO Report explores the six-year outcomes of a cohort of first-time-
in-college degree-seeking students who started in fall 2006 (N=1,878,484).
O It enhances the traditional graduation rate by reporting in four key ways: 1. Student completion anywhere, beyond institutional boundaries,
across state lines, and over time; 2. Persistence anywhere, not just at the starting institution, for
those who have not yet completed but are still pursuing a degree; 3. College outcomes broken out by student age at first entry and
enrollment intensity, thus addressing questions about the role of students’ varied postsecondary pathways in progress toward national completion goals;
4. Enrollment intensity based on the enrollment status in all terms of enrollment, and not just the first term.
Completing College: Interesting Finding
• Within six years, 12 percent of first-time students completed a degree or certificate at an institution other than the one where they started, raising the overall completion rate from 42 to 54 percent.
Transfer & Mobility: Interesting Findings
O One third of all students transferred at least once within five years.
O Part- and full-time students had similar transfer rates over five years.
O Over one quarter of all transfers crossed state lines.
.
O Snapshot Reports exam national enrollment trends O The report data come from student-level
college enrollment data and present unique snapshots in time that reveal college enrollment patterns and student pathways to student outcomes
O Reports are organized into five categories: persistence, mobility, concurrent enrollment, adult learners, degree attainment.
O Available at:O http://www.studentclearinghouse.info/snapshot/
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