Without the mitigations against anti-access selectivity found in established PBF programs this metric has the potential to do twice the harm to student access goals while being generally redundant to the established graduation rate metric and possibly the similarly untested year 3+ metric graduate employment earnings.
MCU published the Ontario university and college SMA3s on November 26, 2020. These documents described the targets that had been negotiated individually with the MCU and each institution, as well as the weighting of each PBF metric over each year covered by SMA3. Unlike most other PBF programs, each metric… Read More »The How of SMA3 Measures, Targets & Weights
My research found that metrics created for SMA3 are justified only by their adherence to neoliberal new public management objectives; not PBF literature. SMA3 fails to incorporate established mitigations against access bias while introducing the risk of untested and ideologically motivated metrics.
In the SM2 Dashboard I created, slide five contains what each university had identified as their Program areas of Strength and reflected their rank (deliberate or otherwise) in each university’s SMA document. Slide six added to that with Program areas of expansion. That exercise appeared to be much more about… Read More »SMA3: Strength and Focus