Early Outcomes
Get the right data at the right time to see if your Guided Pathways reforms are working. Track first-year student progress, gain early insights, and refine your strategies for real, lasting impact.
Early Momentum Metrics to Build On
Essential tools and metrics, plus case studies and strategies, to provide a starting point for what to measure against and what to expect in the first couple years of implementation.
Early Momentum Metrics: Leading Indicators for Community College Improvement
This research brief examines nine early momentum metrics (EMMs) in community colleges, demonstrating how students’ first-year progress in credit accumulation, gateway course completion, and persistence strongly predicts their long-term credential completion rates across different student populations. By examining nine EMMs that strongly predict student completion rates, this resource provides you with actionable data to evaluate the potential long-term effects of large-scale reforms and guide your efforts to boost student success.
Early Momentum Metrics: Leading Indicators for Community College Improvement
Early Momentum Metrics: Leading Indicators for Community College ImprovementEarly Momentum Metrics: Why They Matter for College Improvement
This research brief examines three “early momentum metrics” that can predict long-term student success in college: credit momentum, gateway momentum, and program momentum. You should use these metrics to evaluate the effectiveness of your guided pathways reforms and focus your efforts on creating strong foundations for student success from the very beginning of their college journey.
Early Momentum Metrics: Why They Matter for College Improvement
Early Momentum Metrics: Why They Matter for College Improvement