By Reis Thebault, The Columbus Dispatch
Analytics relies on past student data, such as grades, credit hours and class difficulty, to predict how future students may fare. And so, when advisers look at the data, they aren’t spying, they’re helping, Burns said. “This is not Big Brother in a bad way,” she said. “Advising is a craft. A lot of times academic advisers are not given the information they need to successfully help students.” In some cases, that information is more than just academic data; it can be information about students’ social lives.
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