Advanced Predictive Analytics
& Deployment for Academia
Version 1’s Advanced Predictive Analytics & Deployment Solution covers the entire data analytics process from conception design through to analytical deployment and refinement
Extract information from existing data to discover usable insights and predict future outcomes. Output is then deployed to your operational systems in a secure and effective environment.
Combining multiple data sources, Version 1’s APAD solution can extract information from existing data to discover usable insights and predict future outcomes. These insights can be deployed directly into your operational systems to make data-driven decisions and improve business processes.
Primary Advanced Predictive Analytics & Deployment Solutions for Academia
Version 1’s analytical experts can consult and deliver a wide variety of Advanced Predictive Analytics & Deployment solutions for Academia. Read more below about both our Teaching applications as well as how SPSS can be used commercially within Academia:
Site License
Version 1 is the sole UK and Ireland reseller for SPSS Academic Site Licenses. With an SPSS academic site license, an annual fee is paid and the University is entitled to unlimited authorised and concurrent licenses of their chosen bundle(s). SPSS can be installed on-site at the University, it can also be distributed to staff and students for home use.
Higher & Further Education
This is a cut-down version of the site license, a 50-user license usually sold to FE or HE Colleges or smaller academic sites. This works in the same way as the site license in that the license includes a combination of authorised and concurrent users as well as student or staff home use but the total number of users is capped at 50.
Improve Student Retention
Academics around the globe are looking to improve student retention rates while reducing costs through a process of using predictive analytics to identify students most at risk of dropping out of education. Predictive analytics technology can boost student retention rates by:
- Predicting what are the factors that are causing students to drop out
- Identifying student issues and key factors driving retention issues
- Flagging students that have a high level of certainty of dropping out
- Designing proactive intervention strategies at key stages during the student life cycle
Smarter Student Recruitment
Boost student recruitment by:
- Identifying factors impacting employability of prospective students
- Adapting your recruitment process to select those most likely to succeed beyond traditional academic criteria
- Targeting digital marketing
- Insights discovered on your students from historical data
- Profiling potential students effectively by using data on past students can drive future professional performance
Better Student Experience
Improve student engagement and the student experience by using advanced predictive analytics solutions to:
- Attract the right quality and quantity of students
- Better target messaging
- Provide a more personalised learning experience
- Identify the factors that lead to student graduation and then career development/employability opportunities
- Improve academic rankings by attracting better students
- Select students with the highest potential
Advanced Predictive Analytics & Deployment Case Studies
Case Study – Wimbledon High School
The Racket Research Club at Wimbledon High School was given license to use a dataset from All England Lawn Tennis Club (The Championships, Wimbledon) for the purposes of educational analysis and interpretation. Given the scale and size of the dataset, the school was very keen for the girls at Racket Research Club to work with the data to support class and project work and gain valuable data analytics experience. Working with Version 1 and using SPSS software, the school has been able to achieve this objective and expand the scope of their Big Data Research Clubs, including their students in more real-life data science projects offering an unrivalled level of insight and experience.
Case Study – Wichita University
Data describing students was housed in separate data “silos” that were difficult to integrate. This forced the administration of Wichita State University to rely on tradition and intuition to make critical decisions. IBM SPSS Statistics software allows administrators to make evidence-based decisions.
Case Study – University of Western Sydney
The University of Western Sydney (UWS) wanted to ensure that as many of its students as possible reach graduation – helping them achieving their academic goals, and protecting its own finances. Student attrition is one of the biggest threats to this objective. To reduce the risk of attrition, UWS is using analytics to predict when a student is likely to leave, assess the cause, and trigger appropriate interventions to encourage them to stay.
Case Study – New York University
The University needed to find an instructional platform for teaching statistics that would de-emphasize formula manipulation and cumbersome calculations and promote the acquisition of a clear, conceptual understanding of – and appreciation for – statistical methods as they are applied in real-life settings. New York University, has found that by integrating IBM SPSS Statistics into their course curriculum, they have been able to obtain the right instructional platform for achieving her course goals.
Case Study – HETAC
Accreditation body moves survey online, achieving higher quality results and reduced costs. Since working with Version 1’s SPSS Team, the response rates of the First Destination Response survey have improved significantly. This year’s survey achieved a response rate of 41% which increased dramatically from 25% in the previous year.
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