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August 15, 2018
Improving instructional quality should be a top priority for institutional leaders facing the pressures of increasing accountability, decreasing budgets, and a more diverse student population.
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Learn about three different institutions that are implementing impactful practices that focus on improving the teaching effectivness and support student learning.
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In this white paper, we explore the question of whether improvements in instructional quality can increase a postsecondary institution’s net revenue. We lay out a conceptual framework in which improvement in instruction leads to better student outcomes such as increased retention rates, decreased repetition of courses, and faster time to degree.
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January 24, 2017
This webinar focuses on a recently release ACE paper on the impact of improved instruction on student outcomes such as postsecondary degree attainmnet, engagement, and satisfication.
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January 24, 2017
Effective college instruction leads to engaged and successful students who are more likely to be satisfied with their education and earn a postsecondary degree, finds a paper released today by ACE.
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A paper discussing the relationship between quality faculty instruction and student outcomes.
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October 19, 2016
ACE and Strada Education Network today announced a groundbreaking collaboration to examine higher education instruction and assess the connections between quality teaching and student success.
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March 8, 2016
The shared goal of the collaboration is to dramatically expand the use of effective teaching practices to benefit students, faculty and institutions.
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Bringing Accountability to Life: How Savvy Data Users Find the “Accountable N” to Improve Equity and Sustainability in Higher Education, from authors Alicia C. Dowd, Keith Witham, Debbie Hanson, Cheryl D. Ching, Román Liera, and Marlon Fernandez Castro, provides a humanistic perspective on data-informed decision making in higher education. It identifies and celebrates the many ways savvy data users in institutions of higher education are helping college students navigate barriers to academic success and—even more importantly—taking steps to remove those barriers. The technical and humanistic aspects of data use are both important, but data do not drive decisions—people do. Illustrating the need for “different data for different folks,” this report highlights the valuable uses of administrative data, which are organic in nature, and of accountability data, which are synthetic in nature.