GSU has been uniquely effective in using its student-data warehouse to identify soluble barriers to student progression and graduation, and attacking them systematically.

As it turns out, the recipe for GSU’s success is not a particular solution, but rather a particular approach to problem-solving. Indeed, no single initiative is responsible for the dramatic gains at GSU the university’s improvement represents the accumulated impact of a dozen or more relatively modest programs. No single initiative is responsible for the dramatic gains at GSU the university’s improvement represents the accumulated impact of a dozen or more relatively modest programs. Although it is an impressive tool, GPS was introduced in 2012, nearly a decade after GSU’s rapid improvement in student outcomes began. Recently, much of that attention has focused on GSU’s innovative GPS advising system, a collaboration with EAB (formerly the Education Advisory Board) to mine GSU’s data and generate real-time alerts for students at risk of falling off track academically. Ĭommentators and those seeking to learn from GSU have tended to concentrate on specific programs. To research this case study, we visited GSU’s downtown Atlanta campus in March 2015, spending two days meeting with 17 administrators and staff members.

GSU is a core member of the University Innovation Alliance, and now hosts approximately 80 visits each year from representatives of other colleges and universities seeking to understand how GSU has achieved its success. National media outlets have touted the innovative programs undertaken at GSU, and President Obama praised GSU during the 2014 White House College Opportunity Summit. GSU’s success with traditionally underserved students has received broad recognition. Remarkably, the share of its students who are Pell eligible nearly doubled, from 31 percent in 2003 to 58 percent in 2013. During the same period, GSU has made a concerted effort to increase enrollment for traditionally underserved students. GSU’s six-year graduation rate has increased from 32 percent in 2003 to 54 percent in 2014. Georgia State University (GSU), a public university in Atlanta with nearly 33,000 undergraduates, has dramatically improved its rates of student success over the past decade. Origins and Operations of GSU’s Student Success Initiatives.Example: the probability that a card is a four and red =p(four and red) = 2/52=1/26. (There are two red fours in a deck of 52, the 4 of hearts and the 4 of diamonds). Joint probability is that of event A and event B occurring. It is the probability of the intersection of two or more events. The probability of the intersection of A and B may be written p(A ∩ B). It may be thought of as an unconditional probability. It is not conditioned on another event. Example: the probability that a card drawn is red (p(red) = 0.5). Another example: the probability that a card drawn is a 4 (p(four)=1/13).

Marginal probability: the probability of an event occurring (p(A)) in isolation.

So out of the 26 red cards (given a red card), there are two fours so 2/26=1/13. For example, given that you drew a red card, what’s the probability that it’s a four (p(four|red))=2/26=1/13.

Conditional probability: p(A|B) is the probability of event A occurring, given that event B occurs.

Joint Probability and Marginal Probability

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