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Enhancing Student Success through Advising

Learn how our Department of Kinesiology improved student success by implementing peer mentor advising, student-faculty mentoring, and assessment methods.

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Enhancing Student Success through Advising

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  1. Advising: The Key to Student Success Dr. Erin Hall & Dr. Brent Powell Department ofKinesiology October 23, 2015

  2. Purpose • To better serve our students through advising • The Department believed that by working on the following materials and activities, we could reach our students’ goals of degree completion in a timely manner. • Develop “Peer Mentor Advising” • Peer Mentor training for lower division and change of major students • Provide more student-faculty mentoring development • Assistant with research and student professional development • What assessment methods were used? • Four assessments were conducted: • Evaluation of Department Advising Survey • Advisee Survey • Peer Mentor Training/Advising Survey • Wonder Valley Professor/Student Interaction Survey

  3. Advising Results Fall 2014-Fall 2015 • Advisees were satisfied with the descriptions of Department degree options, and career options within a Kinesiology degree and how to create their course schedule. • Peer mentors’ assessment of the career options were reported as being an area in need of improvement in their training • Of those who changed majors to Kinesiology and participated in the survey, 50% rated the peer advising experience as “Better” than the advising experience from their previous major

  4. Student Success Results • Did your process increase student success? • We won’t know until approximately Spring 2016 when we can track the Fall 2013 mass advising students to graduation. • What lessons were learned? • Peer mentoring has multi-facited benefits to the mentors and to the students being advised • Initiated assessment of student perspective of faculty advising • Found a need to focus more on career, graduate, and credential options • Increased satisfaction from 3.88 (2013-14) to 4.53 (2014-15)

  5. Advice for Others • What advice can you share with others? How can others translate what you have done to their courses / departments? • Making the personal contact with student • What are the next steps you will use to continuously improve? • Continue peer mentoring advising • Volunteer basis • No longer be able to participate in off campus “team building” experience • To assess advising and student need

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