Download or read book Building an Evaluation Model of Academic Advising s Impact on Progression Persistence and Retention Within University Settings written by Abhik R. Roy and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Academic advising is at a point in its maturation as a field of study where anecdotal evidence is no longer sufficient to inform the measure of effectiveness. As the area becomes more research-based, advising's measurable impact should be based on an evaluative framework; no such structure currently exists. In this study, three methods were used to investigate this problem and ultimately to create a model and checklist. Firstly, a descriptive study was used to examine if there is an understanding of what evaluation is within the advising community, one where assessment has been the dominant practice. Secondly, a quasi-experimental design was utilized to determine if the practice of advising has any effect on student progression and retention. Thirdly, using results from the first two studies, a Delphi study was used to create a checklist for evaluating academic advising. Results indicated that academic advisors tended to associate the idea of evaluation with assessment. Additionally, there was an indication that academic advising affected student success when viewed through the lens of progression toward degree completion. Finally, a preliminary model and evaluative checklist were constructed. In summation, academic advising is very much at its infancy as a field of study. If evaluative standards are to be accepted within the community, acceptable measures and methods must be employed when judging the practice. This research provides the advising population with a basic framework to evaluate their programs or units using language and criteria derived from the three studies.
Download or read book Academic Advising Approaches written by Jayne K. Drake and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2013-09-16 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Strong academic advising has been found to be a key contributor to student persistence (Center for Public Education, 2012), and many are expected to play an advising role, including academic, career, and faculty advisors; counselors; tutors; and student affairs staff. Yet there is little training on how to do so. Various advising strategies exist, each of which has its own proponents. To serve increasingly complex higher education institutions around the world and their diverse student cohorts, academic advisors must understand multiple advising approaches and adroitly adapt them to their own student populations. Academic Advising Approaches outlines a wide variety of proven advising practices and strategies that help students master the necessary skills to achieve their academic and career goals. This book embeds theoretical bases within practical explanations and examples advisors can use in answering fundamental questions such as: What will make me a more effective advisor? What can I do to enhance student success? What conversations do I need to initiate with my colleagues to improve my unit, campus, and profession? Linking theory with practice, Academic Advising Approaches provides an accessible reference useful to all who serve in an advising role. Based upon accepted theories within the social sciences and humanities, the approaches covered include those incorporating developmental, learning-centered, appreciative, proactive, strengths-based, Socratic, and hermeneutic advising as well as those featuring advising as teaching, motivational interviewing, self-authorship, and advising as coaching. All advocate relationship-building as a means to encourage students to take charge of their own academic, personal, and professional progress. This book serves as the practice-based companion to Academic Advising: A Comprehensive Handbook, also from NACADA. Whereas the handbook addresses the concepts advisors and advising administrators need to know in order to build a success advising program, Academic Advising Approaches explains the delivery strategies successful advisors can use to help students make the most of their college experience.
Download or read book Beyond Foundations written by Thomas J. Grites and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2016-09-19 with total page 421 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sharpen advising expertise by exploring critical issues affecting the field Beyond Foundations, a core resource for experienced academic advisors, gives practitioners insight into important issues affecting academic advising. In addition to gaining understanding of foundational concepts and pressing concerns, master advisors engage with case studies to clarify their roles as educators of students, as thought leaders in institutions, and as advocates for the profession. Pillar documents—the NACADA Core Values, NACADA Concept of Academic Advising, and CAS Standards—serve as sources of both information and inspiration for those seeking to improve advising. New strategies inform advisors helping a diverse student population delineate meaningful educational goals. Each chapter prompts productive discussions with fellow advisors interested in cultivating advising excellence. To promote advisor influence in higher education, experienced contributors explain new trends—including the impact of external forces and legal issues on postsecondary institutions—and the evolution of advising as a profession and a field of inquiry. Expert insight and practical focus contribute to the development of experienced advisors. Use existing resources in new ways to master advising roles and encourage student success Apply theory to advance advising practice Create and optimize professional development opportunities Establish recognition for the contributions of academic advisors to the institution and higher education Face challenges created by the changing higher education landscape Advisors must meet the expectations of students, parents, faculty members, administrators, and outside agencies, all while navigating an increasingly complex range of issues presented by a student population unlike any that has come before. Beyond Foundations provides the insight and clarity advisors need to help students achieve their educational goals and to advance the field.
Download or read book Developing an Academic Advisement Model to Support Student Retention at Delaware Technical Community College Jack F Owens Campus written by Melissa L. Rakes and published by ProQuest. This book was released on 2008 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Improving student retention and persistence, or keeping students enrolled at the institution through completion of their educational goals, is a goal at colleges and universities across the nation. Improving retention is a priority for Delaware Technical & Community College, Jack F. Owens Campus (Delaware Tech). This Executive Position Paper examines opportunities to improve student retention at Delaware Tech. The retention literature has helped institutions to understand retention and develop strategies to improve retention. While there is no single program or service that can solve an institution's retention concerns, there is evidence that academic advisement has one of the strongest links to student retention. Some research indicates academic advisement is the most important factor in student success and retention. By improving academic advising, the college can improve retention. This EPP investigates opportunities to strengthen advisement at Delaware Tech by examining the current delivery of academic advisement services, evaluating the effectiveness of the current advisement services, and reviewing the advisement literature and programs at other institutions. The information gathered was used to propose an academic advisement model that improves student success and retention.
Download or read book The New Advisor Guidebook written by Pat Folsom and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2015-09-21 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is an exciting time to be an academic advisor—a time in which global recognition of the importance of advising is growing, research affirms the critical role advising plays in student success, and institutions of higher education increasingly view advising as integral to their missions and essential for improving the quality of students' educational experiences. It is essential that advisors provide knowledgeable, realistic counsel to the students in their charge. The New Advisor Guidebook helps advisors meet this challenge. The first and final chapters of the book identify the knowledge and skills advisors must master. These chapters present frameworks for setting and benchmarking self-development goals and for creating self-development plans. Each of the chapters in between focuses on foundational content: the basic terms, concepts, information, and skills advisors must learn in their first year and upon which they will build over the lengths of their careers. These chapters include strategies, questions, guidelines, examples, and case studies that give advisors the tools to apply this content in their work with students, from demonstrations of how student development theories might play out in advising sessions to questions advisors can ask to become aware of their biases and avoid making assumptions about students to a checklist for improving listening, interviewing, and referral skills. The book covers various ways in which advising is delivered: one-to-one, in groups, and online. The New Advisor Guidebook serves as an introduction to what advisors must know to do their jobs effectively. It pairs with Academic Advising Approaches: Strategies That Teach Students to Make the Most of College, also from NACADA, which presents the delivery strategies successful advisors can use to help students make the most of their college experience.
Download or read book Caseload Advising as Teaching written by Kenneth Lamont Ruff and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 91 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the collegial level, academic advising has long been advocated as a scholarly activity based on its parallel to teaching. In fact, the National Academic Advising Association (NACADA) has promoted the parallel between Developmental Advising and Teaching as its primary contribution to the education community and to its claim as a scholarly profession. While there are similarities between the two, this study seeks to contribute to the body of research by probing this theory via the restructuring of the CST 1001 Freshman Seminar Course offered within the College of Science & Technology at a large, urban public research institution. By implementing a caseload-teaching model of the course for first year freshman STEM students, the study sets out to illustrate whether caseload advising within a classroom/teaching setting can improve students' first year retention and persistence to graduation. This evaluation study is two-fold: Not only does it set out to "treat' students within a section of the course via the application of constructive and intrusive advising/teaching practices, and track student persistence to graduation in four, five and six years, it also examines the increasing demand on the academic advising role and its place within the higher education landscape. In search for its place in the higher education community and its claim as a profession, the study examines the advisor role to determine whether the advising practice offers more than its student service function, which is designed to carry out the mission of the institution.
Download or read book Scholarly Inquiry in Academic Advising written by Craig M. McGill and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-07-03 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Co-published with NACADAA large and growing number of academic advisors are interested in researching and publishing scholarly inquiry in academic advising. Since the first edition of this book was published, the scope of relevant inquiry has widened and deepened, and public attention and accountability is at an all-time high. This second edition of Scholarly Inquiry in Academic Advising provides scholar-practitioners with methodological perspectives from each of the major ways of knowing: the social sciences, including qualitative, quantitative, and now mixed methods approaches; the arts; the humanities; and the natural sciences. This book is a vade mecum for researchers in academic advising to formulate research questions, structure research, point to useful theoretical and methodological approaches, guide analysis, and help find publication outlets. Authors from a multitude of backgrounds seek to raise the level of discourse about academic advising, to illustrate its history, to reflect on how research can foster new perspectives, and to connect with and foster social justice, internationality, and inclusivity. This volume will assist those who seek to push back the frontiers of knowledge in the field, because it serves as a handbook for advising scholars, whatever their epistemological, theoretical, axiological, and methodological predilections. As for practitioners, this book “raises the bar” and conveys to even non-researching practitioners that scholarly inquiry in academic advising is a desirable avenue to professional development that must inform their practice.
Download or read book Academic Advising written by Virginia N. Gordon and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2011-01-13 with total page 614 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the challenges in higher education is helping students to achieve academic success while ensuring their personal and vocational needs are fulfilled. In this updated edition more than thirty experts offer their knowledge in what has become the most comprehensive, classic reference on academic advising. They explore the critical aspects of academic advising and provide insights for full-time advisors, counselors, and those who oversee student advising or have daily contact with advisors and students. New chapters on advising administration and collaboration with other campus services A new section on perspectives on advising including those of CEOs, CAOs (chief academic officers), and CSAOs (chief student affairs officers) More emphasis on two-year colleges and the importance of research to the future of academic advising New case studies demonstrate how advising practices have been put to use.
Download or read book College Student Retention written by Alan Seidman and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2024-08-09 with total page 359 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: College student retention continues to be a top priority among colleges, universities, educators, federal and state legislatures, parents and students. While access to higher education is virtually universally available, many students who start in a higher education program do not complete the program or achieve their academic and personal goals. In spite of the programs and services colleges and universities have devoted to this issue, student retention and graduation rates have not improved considerably over time. College Student Retention: Formula for Student Success, Third Edition offers a solution to this vexing problem. It provides background information about college student retention issues and offers the educational community pertinent information to help all types of students succeed. The book lays out the financial implications and trends of retention. Current theories of retention, retention of online students, and retention in community colleges are also thoroughly discussed. Completely new to this edition are chapters that examine retention of minority and international students. Additionally, a formula for student success is provided which if colleges and universities implement student academic and personal goals may be attained.
Download or read book The Role of Academic Advising in Student Retention and Persistence written by Susan Campbell and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This booklet focuses on the research on student retention and persistence to graduation, specifically utilizing that research to analyze and effectively communicate those issues on our campuses and to develop strategies for connecting research to action. Steps are identified that a campus must take to build a culture where student success is part of the fabric of the campus and academic advising is seen as key to campus student success initiatives--from website.
Download or read book Educational Policy Goes to School written by Gilberto Q. Conchas and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-09-08 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Educational policies explicitly implemented in order to reduce educational gaps and promote access and success for disenfranchised youth can backfire—and often have the unintended result of widening those gaps. In this interdisciplinary collection of case studies, contributors examine cases of policy backfire, when policies don’t work, have unintended consequences, and when policies help. Although policy reform is thought of as an effective way to improve schooling structures and to diminish the achievement gap, many such attempts to reform the system do not adequately address the legacy of unequal policies and the historic and pervasive inequalities that persist in schools. Exploring the roots of school inequality and examining often-ignored negative policy outcomes, contributors illuminate the causes and consequences of poor policymaking decisions and demonstrate how policies can backfire, fail, or have unintended success.
Download or read book The Assessment of the Whole Person Advisement Model Among Residential Students at Spring Arbor College written by David E. Klopfenstein and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book High Impact Advising written by Susan Ohrablo and published by . This book was released on 2018-02-05 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Faculty led Student Advising Model written by Rochelle A. Moore and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 163 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This case study explored how a faculty-led advising model at a large nontraditional university consistently results in above-average student persistence rates. Through investigating the role of the faculty, the project considered why this advising model is effective, how it was developed, how faculty implement the model, what works, and what does not work. The purpose of this case study was to understand how specific faculty members make sense of their role as academic advisors and construct knowledge about the importance of academic advising, applying the seven properties of sensemaking as a lens. The findings revealed three overarching themes, and six sub-themes, which emerged as the faculty described their role. First, engaging in reflective practice during the advising process leads to increases in self-efficacy. Second, through holistic and contextual interaction, student success is improved. Third, a connection between altruism and advising guides faculty behaviors and contributes to student success. Implications and recommendations include a focus on employing faculty with skills aligned with the advising model; developing more focused training opportunities; developing a reward system to illustrate the value of this advising process and devising an assessment methodology to verify effectiveness of the process"--Author's abstract.
Download or read book Implementing a Pivotal Talent Pool Strategy to Improve College Student Retention written by Eric Justin Tack and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Improving student retention rates is imperative for U.S. colleges and universities; however, despite decades of research, a universal strategy for increasing retention rates remains elusive. The purpose of this study was to determine if a pivotal talent pool strategy (PTPS) helped to improve performance in a centralized academic advising unit at a regional state university, resulting in an increase in student retention rates. The director of advising at the study site led an action research (AR) team, consisting of two academic affairs leadership personnel, in a two-year study engaging five assistant directors of advising and 14 front-line academic advisors as research participants. Academic advisors served as the pivotal talent pool for this study. Two research questions guided this research: (1) How, if at all, does implementing a PTPS affect the performance and short-term impact of a centralized academic advising unit? (2) What is required of a centralized advising unit to create the conditions that support the development and implementation of such a PTPS? Qualitative data were collected using several methods, including benchmarking and semi-structured interviews, meeting notes, email correspondences, researcher journal entries, and organizational documents. Additionally, data were generated by examining term-over-term undergraduate student re-registration rates. The AR team adhered to Coghlan and Brannick's (2010) traditional AR cycle, comprising four basic steps: constructing, planning action, taking action, and evaluating action. This study consisted of one mega-research cycle focused on improving the performance of the academic advisors, with an embedded sub-cycle focused on the performance of the supervisors of academic advisors. The AR team integrated Ruona's (2004) consulting to improve the performance process to intervene with academic advisors and their supervisors. The data were analyzed both inductively and deductively using the constant comparative method (Ruona, 2005). The findings showed that using a PTPS (Ruona, 2014, 2017) improved the performance of a pivotal talent position. The results also highlighted factors impacting performance that practitioners must consider when implementing a PTPS. Moreover, the study revealed opportunities to further explore how the PTPS employed by the study site has a long-term impact on improving student retention rates at the university and other institutions.
Download or read book Core Competencies and Organizational Socialization written by Heather Lynn Eidson Ammons and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Meeting with an academic advisor may be one of the few, if not the only, one-on-one interactions an undergraduate student has with faculty or staff outside of classroom matters. This interaction connects students to the curriculum of their selected major and campus resources but, most importantly, the academic advisor provides a direct connection to the institution (Nutt, 2003) and fosters the further holistic development within the student. As such, academic advising is often connected to increased retention and persistence (Bryant, 2016; Drake, 2011; Nutt, 2003). Despite this important role, institutions do not engage in critical reflection on how they are supporting and/or impeding the development of those advisors new to this crucial position. To address how organizational culture supports and impedes the development of a new advisor, this study employed qualitative research methods in a descriptive, embedded, single-case case study at a southeastern research university. Using the NACADA academic advising core competencies and organizational socialization, twenty-eight individuals - new advisors, seasoned advisors, advisor trainers, and advising center directors - were interviewed, four new advisors participated in a focus group, and hundreds of pages of documents were analyzed. This study found that the culture of different colleges was varied, but each reflected a similar desire for students to develop and succeed despite there not being an overarching university advising mission. Additionally, the boundaries, responses, and tactics were similar across each college. The informational and relational core competencies were the most often discussed by advisors and highly valued in practice, with a few advisors articulating the value of the conceptual component. The advisors also expressed various levels of perceived support at the university level. Overall, the institution supported new advisors through college-level advisor training and professional development, creating an advisor job family and a campus-based advising organization, and developing an advising initiative. Conversely, new advisor development was impeded by the lack of a central advising mission and centralized office or administrator, lack of upper administration understanding the value of advising, no university-based training, and increased enrollment that outpaced advisor hires. As such, this study recommends that institutions develop a centralized advising mission and training program to provide support to new advisors.
Download or read book Academic Advising Influence on Undergraduate Student Odds of Retention and Graduation written by Kathryn Wheatley and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
