Macmillan Learning, an educational solutions and insights provider, has announced a strategic partnership between Skyfactor (formerly EBI MAP-Works), the student retention and assessment platform, and NODA: the Association for Orientation, Transition and Retention in Higher Education. The collaboration between Skyfactor and NODA will leverage the resources of two long-standing organisations committed to improving student success.
The Skyfactor assessments offered in conjunction with NODA are primarily for Orientation (Student, Leader and Family), which will help provide improved orientation experiences for students. Assessments will be sold through Skyfactor and are administered utilising the Benchworks platform system. Through this partnership, orientation, enrolment, and student affairs professionals will have clearer access to assessments that provide insight into the lives and behaviours of incoming students, which will enable them to better serve their student populations.
NODA is a professional association dedicated to creating a space for professionals to develop, collaborate and enrich the orientation field within higher education. Benchworks solutions are professionally-built, customisable assessments that are aligned with accreditation and professional standard. In addition to student affairs assessments, Skyfactor offers solutions for program improvement in the academic areas of Engineering, Business, Teacher Education and Nursing. Skyfactor's long history of providing program assessments allows them to incorporate comparative and historical data into their pre-built dashboards covering more than 20 program assessments that have been administered more than 16 million times, by over 1500 institutions. This new partnership will see the unmatched research and analytics that power Benchworks assessments inform and support the work of the association, including three orientation focused assessments.
Benchmarking assessments provide significant insights to programs seeking to improve their practice. Combining the power and expertise of the Benchworks Orientation assessment suite with NODA's more than forty years of commitment to scholarly knowledge and best practices will see advances in the pursuit of improved student orientation experiences, leading to not only increased retention, but completion rates and overall student success.
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