Webinar hosted by CSRDE- The Consortium for Student Retention Data Exchange.
Joshua P. Sills of Texas Tech UniversityRetention efforts continue to evolve across the country. One of the new approaches being employed is life coaching. Academic Life Coaching by licensed Academic Life Coaches is a new addition to some university systems. Best practices have yet to be established within the life coaching community under the context of the university system. By using predictive modeling approaches using data from intake surveys that target key psychosocial factors, life coaches can build their coaching practices on empirically validated foundations. This means interventionists can target stakeholders with statistics-driven student-centric support which aligns with the principles of life coaching. Having students self-assess on former empirically-validated psychosocial factors that predict GPA outcomes, retention-by-semester, or graduation rates allows life coaches to confidently gain insight into a stakeholder’s current situation and thus help them improve their likelihood of graduating. Thus, coaches are equipped to better meet needs and offer targeted services that address the stakeholder’s self-expressed (or even unrecognized or subconscious) concerns. Within our preliminary findings, students self-reported increased levels of confidence in the areas that interventionists targeted with their coaching.
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