Project COMPASS Results & Impact

Six Key Measures

• Social, teaching and cognitive presence
• Instructor-student interactions
• Student withdrawal from course
• Course grades
• Persistence in school
• Covariates

Independent evaluation reports

• Executive summary of evaluation report
• Detailed summary of evaluation report

Key takeaways

• Students exposed to the online engagement model reported experiencing higher online presence
• Students engaged in more online participation (in the LMS)
• Students were less likely to drop or withdraw from the course
• Incremental improvements in student success rates
• Positive impact on students persisting to the next academic year
• Students from lower-income backgrounds benefited more from the online engagement model
• Students with previous low performance benefited more
• A greater impact on male students