Analytic Answers for Student Retention

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Identify students likely to drop out and keep them enrolled

IBM Analytic Answers for Student Retention is a cloud-based solution for educational institutions that uses advanced analytics to help identify students who are at risk of not completing their courses. Those responsible for retention in your institution can select the actions most likely to get each at-risk student back on track so the student stays enrolled. No analytics expertise or software license is required.

Analytic Answers provides predictive information and recommendations for encouraging at-risk students to stay enrolled.
You follow three basic steps to get your answers, and IBM does the rest.
Analytic Answers identifies patterns in dropout rates and drivers of disengagement.
The benefits of Analytic Answers for Student Retention include increased retention rates and performance.

Predictive information and recommendations

Analytic Answers for Student Retention provides predictive insight in the form of the probability that students will drop out.
Analytic Answers for Student Retention provides recommended interventions for each at-risk student.
Analytic Answers for Student Retention bases the answers it provides on models built from your historical student retention data.

Three basic steps to answers

Step 1: In an initial engagement, you provide historical data to IBM’s experienced analytic specialists who then use that data to build and customize predictive models and analytical processes.
Step 2: After initial setup is complete, you upload your latest data to the web. Analytic Answers then scores that data based on your models.
Step 3: You download the answers and apply these insights and recommendations to intervention programs that help at-risk students.
You can repeat Steps 2 and 3 as often as you like, even daily. Typically, this will be when student information is refreshed with, for example, the latest test scores and attendance information.

Identification of patterns in dropout rates and drivers of disengagement

Analytic Answers for Student Retention uses advanced analytics technology to identify patterns such as specific student segments and courses that can be linked to dropout rates and disengaged students.
With information about high-risk students, you can intervene in a timely manner to address the issues putting those students at risk.
These dropout patterns can help you develop actions to address the root causes of student disengagement.

Benefits of Analytic Answers for Student Retention

The information in your answers can be used to help increase the rates of students who remain enrolled.
With more precise targeting, you can experience better returns on what you spend on intervention and possibly even reduce your expenditures.
Better retention and intervention can improve your institution’s performance against national, state and local education metrics and targets.

Analytic Answers for Student Retention resources

White Paper: Analytics: The widening divide
See how companies that apply analytics are gaining more ground on competitors. Read the study by the IBM Institute for Business Value and MIT Sloan Management Review.

Data Sheet: IBM Analytic Answers for Student Retention
A cloud-based application that enables educational institutions to identify students who are at risk of dropping out and recommend ways to help them stay enrolled.

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