Evaluate
Guided Pathways work is an ongoing, iterative process. Evaluate your progress to see what’s working, pinpoint areas for improvement, and understand the impact of your efforts on student success. A solid evaluation process keeps your strategies focused on student needs and drives lasting change.
Foundations
Develop a strong foundation for a solid evaluation process that keeps your strategies focused on student needs and drives lasting change.
Introduction to Guided Pathways: Evaluation and Continously Improving Pathways
This video provides insights into incorporating evaluation into the Guided Pathways model—building on what works, adjusting where needed, and removing elements that don’t effectively support students. Discover practical evaluation approaches and models that can guide you in enhancing and sustaining your pathways efforts.
Introduction to Guided Pathways: Evaluation and Continously Improving PathwaysIntroduction to Guided Pathways: Evaluation and Continously Improving Pathways
Scale of Adoption Assessment (SOAA)
This resource offers a structured framework to help colleges assess their progress in implementing guided pathways and plan actionable next steps. You’ll find the SOAA provides a clear, jargon-free framework to convene a cross-functional team, assess your implementation status, document progress, and plan next steps.
Scale of Adoption Assessment (SOAA)
Scale of Adoption Assessment (SOAA)Tools for Effective Evaluation + Identifying Metrics
Evaluation tools and strategies to help you set metrics that work for your context, and evaluate the impacts of Guided Pathways reforms on student experience and outcomes.
A Strategy for Estimating the Effects of Whole-College Guided Pathways Reforms in Community Colleges
This paper presents a a mixed-methods approach to evaluate both implementation and outcomes of guided pathways reforms in community colleges. You can use this resource to understand how to measure the scale of adoption of guided pathways practices at your institution and assess their impact on early student outcomes.
A Strategy for Estimating the Effects of Whole-College Guided Pathways Reforms in Community Colleges
A Strategy for Estimating the Effects of Whole-College Guided Pathways Reforms in Community CollegesUnpacking Program Enrollments and Completions With Equity in Mind
This resource introduces a framework for analyzing program enrollments to understand whether your programs truly lead to the education and career outcomes students seek, and whether student representation across programs is equitable. You can use this resource to conduct equity-minded analyses of your own program enrollments,creating visual representations of program enrollments, categorizing programs by post-graduation opportunity, and examining demographic representation across programs.
Unpacking Program Enrollments and Completions With Equity in Mind
Unpacking Program Enrollments and Completions With Equity in MindIndicators That Your Students’ Experience Has Been Transformed By Your Guided Pathways Reforms
This resource provides a structured framework to evaluate the impact of guided pathways initiatives on students’ experiences across critical stages of their educational journey. It offers a series of research questions organized around four key stages of the Lost/Momentum Framework to help you gather both quantitative and qualitative data on key indicators like application completion rates, program selection processes, and student confidence levels.
Indicators That Your Students’ Experience Has Been Transformed By Your Guided Pathways Reforms
Indicators That Your Students’ Experience Has Been Transformed By Your Guided Pathways ReformsLearning Outcomes Assessment: A Practitioner’s Handbook
This comprehensive handbook provides practical guidance for assessing program-level learning outcomes in higher education. You’ll find principles, examples, and strategies to help you design authentic assessments aligned with your program goals and use the results to enhance student learning.
Learning Outcomes Assessment: A Practitioner’s Handbook
Learning Outcomes Assessment: A Practitioner’s Handbook