SBIR Phase I: MyCCMajors: A Knowledge-Based System to Improve Student Advisement at Two Year Colleges

这个小企业创新研究（SBIR）第一阶段项目旨在提高700万社区大学生的学术成就。在学生完成学位的过程中，咨询是一个主要的弱点。这项研究确定了一个基于互联网的学习工具，考虑到学生的学术和其他成就，是否可以提高学术成就。该工具结合了以前未开发的知识，从校园范围和部门辅导员。它提高了学生在STEM和其他学科的成功率。它为广泛的传统和非传统学生提供服务。这些建议是针对各个校区提供的各种各样的学习课程而提出的。该项目更广泛的影响/商业潜力是开发一个体现人类顾问和咨询师知识的系统。与以前的工具不同，这个系统结合了学生在学校的实际成绩，生活经历和其他相关的个人数据，以便推荐合适的专业。为了做到这一点，该研究将在一个基于知识的系统中识别、编纂和转换“私人”人类顾问的专业知识，该系统比“基于人类”的系统更容易改进、评估、验证和核实。建议将具体到个别社区学院。MyCCMajors增强并支持这些机构的顾问资源。

This Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I project seeks to improve academic advisement for seven million community college students. Advisement is a major weakness in student progress toward degree completion. The research determines whether an Internet-based advisement instrument that takes into account a student's academic and other achievements can improve academic advisement. The instrument incorporates previously untapped knowledge from campus-wide and departmental counselors. It improves the success rate of students in STEM and other disciplines. It serves a broad range of traditional and non-traditional students. The recommendations are specific to the wide variety of courses of study available at individual campuses.The broader impact/commercial potential of this project is the development of a system that embodies the knowledge of human advisors and counselors. Unlike prior instruments, this system incorporates actual student achievement in school, life experiences, and other relevant personal data in order to recommend appropriate majors. To do this, the research will identify, codify and convert "private" human advisor expertise in a knowledge-based system that can be more easily improved, evaluated, validated and verified than "human-based" systems. Recommendations will be specific to individual community colleges. MyCCMajors augments and supports advisor resources at these institutions.