Improve Student Retention in Courses and Programs
IMS GLC working groups and existing standards support an organization's needs to better identify and respond to students at-risk of not persisting to their stated academic objectives. The IMS GLC activities in this area support student-specific, or targeted, retention efforts as well organization-wide retention assessment and reporting activities.
Specifically, IMS GLC standards aid in constructing, processing and exchanging online assessment information, test items, tests, and the reporting of test results; while IMS GLC adoption standards in this area will provide methodologies and best practices for implementing technologies and processes to support the an organization’s specific retention efforts.
- Learning Information Services (LIS) defines data exchange between learning systems and administrative, student, or human resource systems, enabling the compilation and analysis of multiple student learning data points to assess student academic achievement and risk of attrition or persistence.
- ePortfolio (eP)captures evidence of learning, education, training, and life experiences, and enables interoperability among other systems used to assess and predict student retention.
- Question and Test Interoperability (QTI) provides educators and learners insight via formative and summative assessment by providing standards for constructing, processing and exchanging online assessment information, test items, tests, and the reporting of test results. This information aids organizations in conducting targeted retention analytics and initiating remedial activities.
- Learning Tools Interoperability (LTI) provides educators with student learning outcomes and academic achievement results derived through third-party learning tools (simulations, online labs, etc.), aiding in assessment of student risk of retention.
- Student Induction to eLearning (SIEL) is developing a methodology for introducing students to the eLearning environment, with emphasis on addressing the key issues that interfere with postsecondary student learning, attrition and persistence.
- Targeted Retention Systems (TRS) is developing a methodology consisting of processes and technologies that identify individual students at-risk of persisting to stated academic objectives and manage targeted interventions specific to the individual student’s need.