Guided Tools
The Guided Educational Effectiveness tools require a consultation with Educational Effectiveness staff to ensure that the tool has the potential to meet user needs. Additionally, special data files often need to be generated for specific use and special access permissions are needed.
| Tool | What does it do? | Standard Users |
|---|---|---|
| Ribbon | Visualize student progression through time or milestones, allowing data "nesting" to highlight characteristics and track specific subgroup pathways. Uses pre-developed or user-created files. | Department and College leaders, Campus committees, Faculty/course coordinators, Special projects, and Units developing new academic programs. |
| Curricular Complexity | Visualize course interconnections in 4-year/2-year plans, showing pre/co-requisites, DFW rates, and course offering timing. Can model the impact of program changes. | Directors of undergraduate programs and Department Chairs, Asst/Assoc Deans, Advisors, and Units developing new academic programs. |
| Course Effectiveness Reports | Course-specific PDF reports exploring student outcomes over a 6-year period with graphs, narratives, and guiding questions. Currently distributed to faculty in select learning communities (HHMI IE3, NSF SEISMIC SELC). | Individual faculty teaching courses (100+ seats per year) who participate in a learning community or TLTC offering. |
| APLU Big10 Dashboard | Provides detailed comparison of student outcomes across 9 Big10 institutions for 17 large introductory courses (Spring 2020 - 2023) using Tableau visualizations of grade distribution by demographic variables. | Campus leaders, Chairs and Directors of Undergraduate Programs, and faculty. |