MAAPS Advising Experiment: Evaluation Findings after Six Years. Research Report

Monitoring Advising Analytics to Promote Success (MAAPS)is a multi-institutional project of the University Innovation Alliance (UIA) initially funded and supported by a US Department of Education First in the World Grant to Georgia State, the lead UIA member on this project. MAAPS is a large-scale randomized-controlled trial designed to validate the effectiveness of intensive, proactive, technology-enhanced advisement in increasing achievement, persistence, and completion of historically-underserved students. The study includes more than 10,000 low-income and first-generation students enrolled at the eleven large public universities that constitute the UIA: Arizona State University, Georgia State University, Iowa State University, Michigan State University, The Ohio State University, Oregon State University, Purdue University, University of California Riverside, University of Central Florida, University of Kansas, and University of Texas at Austin. Ithaka S+R serves as the independent evaluator of the study. This report presents: (1) a brief overview of the MAAPS intervention and its key activities; (2) an update on the final study and analytic samples; (3) findings from the impact analyses on the outcome measures after six academic years for the full sample and institutional subsamples; (4) implementation study findings; and (5) a discussion of the results and avenues for future research. [For "MAAPS Advising Experiment: Evaluation Findings after Four Years. Research Report," see ED625754.]