What are the student inventories? What data do they collect on our students?
At the heart of FastTrack are two student questionnaires or inventories—the Partners in Education Inventory (PEI) and the Student Experience Inventory (SEI). Both inventories, designed as optical-mark reflex forms, measure student characteristics that are proven through research to be critical to identifying potential dropouts. The Partners in Education Inventory, a 100+ item questionnaire administered at the start of the first term, provides a comprehensive profile of new student characteristics in terms of their demographics, high school background, attitudes, perceptions, needs, goals, and behaviors. The Student Experience Inventory, a 100+ item questionnaire administered at mid-term, provides a comprehensive description of the characteristics and first-term experiences of each student including their support needs, attitudes, perceptions, and behaviors. These data act as an “early warning system” to identify both successful and unsuccessful students who are considering leaving coll
