Michelle, what is covered in the mid-term evaluation meeting? Do you have a completed written survey from the student?
How long is the trial period, Robert? How often do students opt out?
Thank you, Allan. Please feel free to add some of the best practices that you have developed during your career.
It is a 21 day period. Typically we have less than 15% opt out, mostly for personal reasons i.e. transportation, job, childcare.
We do our best to work with the students to make sure that they are having realistic expectations for themselves first. Most students require being challenged and others are already challenging themselves to achieve the educational success that they desire. However, in most cases they are not aware that some things are in the future and will be obtained over time. Not today or tomorrow. With this being said, it is important to make sure that the student has a clear timeline of steps needed to accomplish their goals.
Once this is confirmed with the student, we work with the student to make sure that we as a school is doing all we can ensure the students success. Since the Education field is constantly changing, we are always open to making sure we are adapting to the needs of the students that come threw our doors.
Our students complete surveys on all classes / instructors at the end of each term. Those are reviewed by program directors and faculty, who then develop a plan for improvement if necessary. Also, our program directors have an open door policy. Students can feel free to drop in any time to discuss personal concerns.
Program chair will take the time to meet with students on a one-on-one basis to make sure that students are receiving the education they expected in order to keep them stay in the program and graduate.
By making sure students do a survey by the end of each course. This is how we assist student needs and help us determine their needs and ensure satisfaction in their learning.
We have weekly retention meetings. Our administration is very proactive and we also have end of module/course surveys to help the staff and faculty get a better understanding of what the expectations are and if they are satisfied.
The meetings are effective for faculty as it is a great means of communication as to who may be at risk.
continued training along with student survey
Erin, do you invite graduates who have progressed at different rates in their career to speak to your students and re-enforce your points?
Christine, please share an example of improvements that have been implemented as a result of the survey results. Surveying is a popular practice but we haven't heard much about how effective they are.
Sounds like a major commitment for the program chair, Tess. At what point of the students enrollment does this happen? What are the results?
Cheryl, who's involved in the weekly retention meetings? Do all the participants come away with action items? If so, how are the results communicated?
Succinct response, Alex. Please share some details about the continued training program? What's covered? By whom? How often? How do you measure effectiveness?
Our facility will do an evaluation every end of the semester.
Campus management meets regularly with both the academic staff and the administrative (recruiting) staff to assure we are all on the same page. We teachers are encouraged to provide feedback and concerns from the students via a commonly used tool (CampusVue). There are quarterly staff meetings in which all personnel attend.
They find strengths and weaknesses and build up students and work on weaknesses.
To work thru problems and find solutions.
