Collecting and monitoring data about student engagement and achievement helps identify students who are struggling and enables staff to take timely action.
Purpose
Higher education institutions have a responsibility to ensure that students are encouraged and supported to complete their programmes and to achieve to the best of their abilities. Issues that can impact on student progress such as academic challenges, financial concerns, home life struggles, and schedule conflicts can arise at any time. Students will need different kinds of encouragement and support throughout their academic journey. Some higher dducation institutions have systems to keep records of their students and their progress with learning and assessment. The data from such records offers academic staff information to identify and prioritise students that may need help or additional direction.
Outcome
Early identification of instances where students might begin to disengage from their courses or start to perform less well gives teachers the opportunity to intervene before the student fails, and this is likely to improve retention and the level of student satisfaction.