Project COMPASS Results & Impact
Six Key Measures
- Social, teaching and cognitive presence
- Instructor-student interactions
- Student withdrawal from course
- Course grades
- Persistence in school
- Covariates
Independent evaluation reports
Key takeaways
- Students exposed to the online engagement model reported experiencing higher online presence
- Students engaged in more online participation (in the LMS)
- Students were less likely to drop or withdraw from the course
- Incremental improvements in student success rates
- Positive impact on students persisting to the next academic year
- Students from lower-income backgrounds benefited more from the online engagement model
- Students with previous low performance benefited more
- A greater impact on male students
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