modeling sequences

Leveraging insight from sequences is at the heart of pathways research. Administrative data can provide rich insight into how large numbers of people variably navigate coursework, explore different fields of study, and accumulate credits and other credentials. To understand how students navigate academic progress iteratively, we also model sequences of course consideration and selection with … Continued

emotion, motivation, and identity

Academic progress implicates who we are as people. We feel as much as think our way through school. Relationships and classroom cultures matter a great deal for how people negotiate learning tasks. Our sense of ourselves as embodied persons, with particular biographies and identities, often mediates how we interpret situations and make decisions as our … Continued