Project page study advisors dashboard

Project objective.

Part of the study advisors' task is to monitor students and to support them if needed. One of the problems students may face is study delay. Study delay is defined as any bachelor student surpassing the n+1 study years. On average only 69% of the bachelor students get a degree within the n+1 study years. The overall goal of this project is to try to identify which students are going to be delayed. It is not clear yet which predictors relate to study delay. So the first aim of this project is to find the indicators that relate to potential study delay.

Currently, study advisors manually create lists of students to contact, email them one by one, and have to keep track of who they already spoke to. It would be great to have a system that, once we know which predictors to use, would automatically alert the study advisors and support them in sending and keeping track of the emails. Hence, the second aim is to make the process of identifying and contacting students more efficient by developing a study advisors dashboard that provides an overview of the students under the care of a study advisor.

Hypotheses and intended outcomes.

We expect that the dashboard fulfills a useful role in study advisors’ monitoring of students and decision making of which students to invite for a meeting. We additionally hypothesize that study advisor will be able to pinpoint cases of study delay at an earlier stage.

Timeline.

Start of the project 1 July 2023.

Contact information.

Team Learning Analytics: learninganalytics@uu.nl

Possibility for internship, thesis or research.

No.