Research Support

The data used to power the COMPASS teaching & learning dashboards and reports are drawn from a variety of sources around UCI, including data managed by the Office of Institutional Research, Enrollment Management, and the Office of the Vice Provost for Teaching & Learning.

The COMPASS data set is available for teaching & learning research purposes in two ways:

• For teaching & learning research not intended for publication: reports in Cognos available to both instructors and academic administrators
• For research intended for publication: direct data access is available via COMPASS data scientists

If you are interested in diving deeper into COMPASS data sets or related data sets to support a teaching & learning research project, you can reach out to our data scientists:

Kameryn Denaro (Division of Teaching Excellence & Innovation / kdenaro@uci.edu)

Partner with campus researchers to collect and disseminate data on evidence-based practices that the campus community can use to improve student success.
Evaluate the impact of programs and campus learning environments on both students and instructors, utilizing assessment data to further improve teaching and learning on campus.
Improve STEM teaching and learning.
Evaluate student equity using computational statistics to promote institutional change.

Joshua Saldana (Office of Institutional Research / saldanaj@uci.edu)

Retention and graduation, particularly among underrepresented and low-income students
STEM Retention
Major retention, transitions, and pathways
First year outcomes

We provide a set of anonymized versions of our faculty reports for use in presentations and demonstrations. Users must have access to the Compass for Faculty reports to access these anonymized versions.

• Course Demographics (Anonymized)
• Course Grades Distribution (Anonymized)