Interim Findings Report from the MAAPS Advising Experiment
Rayane Alamuddin, Daniel Rossman, Martin A. Kurzweil · 2019
Monitoring Advising Analytics to Promote Success (MAAPS) is a multi-institutional project of the University Innovation Alliance (UIA), supported by a U.S. Department of Education First in the World Grant to Georgia State University, a UIA member. The large-scale, randomized-controlled trial was designed to test and validate the effectiveness of technology-enhanced, proactive advisement in increasing retention, progression, and achievement for incoming low-income and first-generation college students. The MAAPS intervention was officially launched during the Fall 2016 term at the 11 institutions that form the UIA, and presently concluded its third year. Over 5,000 students were randomly assigned to the intervention group, and received proactive outreach, degree-planning activities, and targeted interventions from their assigned MAAPS advisors in addition to business-as-usual advisement at their institution. An evaluation study accompanies the intervention and collects administrative data on students’ academic achievement and persistence, as well as qualitative data on the implementation of the project.