Informing Decisions • Improving Practice • Increasing Student Success
Value We Provide
We provide value in these key ways.
- You – will have valuable information to use as a foundation for decision making.
- Stakeholders – will have access to easy-to-use tools that make information relevant and facilitate informed decisions.
- Faculty – will be empowered with new insights that strengthen teaching and learning.
- Students – will have support, focus and direction, leading to greater success.
What We Do
We connect evidence-based data with education stakeholders — students, faculty, staff, administrators, policymakers, funders, and others — to support academic success and measurable improvements in education for all students. We focus on these three key areas:
- Data Use – Understanding data and using it to help students succeed.
- Caring Campus/Bright Spots – Coaching colleges on specific behaviors leading to student engagement and success.
- College Readiness and Success – Collaborating to analyze data, seek appropriate solutions and implement them well.
Who We Are
IEBC is a nationally-recognized nonprofit organization dedicated to helping education stakeholders — K-12 school systems, community colleges, universities, employers and others — use evidence-based data, collaboration and coaching to make informed decisions and craft solutions that improve practice and dramatically increase student success.
Our knowledgeable and personable team includes a wide range of respected leaders, researchers, analysts, academicians, and consultants with advanced degrees in valuable disciplines.
What’s Happening
Ascendium Education Group, one of the nation’s leading higher education philanthropies, has awarded a one million dollar grant to the Institute for Evidence-Based Change (IEBC) for the Caring Campus Initiative with the goal of increasing student retention and success in community colleges around the United States. Read more about this grant.
Helping You Build A New Approach for Student Success Don’t miss the Spring IEBC newsletter with information about the $1 m dollar grant, an interview with Desi Marquez and the real changes implemented because of the Data Use book.
In an exclusive IEBC Interview with Desi Marquez, the financial aid technician recaptured his experience with an a ASU recruiter and shares how the new Caring Campus coaching sessions are impacting how he and his colleagues are interacting with students. Read our full interview with Desi Marquez here.
Read more about Caring Campus and Caring Campus California.
Featured Publications
Serendipity Leads to Student Success Thanks to IEBC Book It’s one thing to write a book; it’s another to find out how many, many educators are putting it to work. In this exclusive interview with IEBC, Dr. Carley Dear of Mississippi, shares how Creating A Data-Informed Culture in Community Colleges provided her with a better way to support her Hinds Community College (Raymond, Mississippi) colleagues in her role as Director of Institutional Research and Effectiveness. Read more about Dr. Dear’s experience here.
California Governor has proposed a new education data system, but it does not need to start from scratch, writes Brad Phillips in EdSource. California can build on IEBC experience with other states and with Cal-PASS, which established data sharing at all levels, and the system must be both useful and easy to use.
Bright Spots faculty and staff are changing student lives with intentional impactful interventions helping stabilize enrollment and retention in the process.
Creating A Data-Informed Culture In Community Colleges, published by Harvard Education Press. Read what others are saying about this book.