Wellbeing Dashboard

Activation

Wellbeing

Positivity

Global Benchmark

Pilot Program Baseline

Activation: 47

Wellbeing: 51

Positivity: 49

Sample Goals for the Program

Wellbeing Data

Provide data and insights about the emotional wellbeing of students, in aggregate as well as individually.

Awareness

Create awareness of campus and community resources for students in need.

Campus Services

Demonstrate an uptick in traffic to the campus services, expand services as needed, and show outcomes.

Support

Engage counselors, staff, and faculty to support students on their wellbeing and academic journeys through an understanding of their emotional needs.

Challenges at Community Colleges

Although we do not have specific data for this school, we reviewed studies that revealed community colleges in the United States are confronting significant challenges, notably high student dropout rates and low graduation rates. These issues are influenced by a variety of factors, including economic hardships, academic preparedness, and structural barriers within the educational system.

High Dropout Rates

A substantial number of community college students discontinue their studies before completing their programs. Between 2020 and 2021, approximately 39% of full-time, first-year undergraduates at public two-year institutions dropped out. bestcolleges.com

Economic challenges play a pivotal role in these dropout rates. In 2023, 60% of students who had dropped out reported missing important bill payments, an increase from 49% in 2022. Additionally, 58% applied for public benefits in 2023, up from 49% the previous year. highereddive.com

Low Graduation Rates

Completion rates at community colleges remain concerningly low. Only 43% of students who began their studies in 2016 had completed a college program by 2022, marking the lowest completion rate across all sectors of higher education. This indicates that 57% of these students did not earn a degree or certificate within six years. newamerica.org

The likelihood of completion also varies significantly by race and ethnicity; for instance, only 31% of Black students who started in 2016 had completed a program by 2022, compared to over 50% of White and Asian students.

Contributing Factors

Several elements contribute to these challenges:

Economic Hardship

Many students face financial difficulties that impede their ability to continue their education. The increasing number of students missing bill payments and seeking public assistance underscores the economic pressures that can lead to higher dropout rates. highereddive.com

Academic Preparedness

A significant portion of community college students require remedial education. Studies have found that students placed into developmental courses often struggle to progress to college-level coursework, with failure and withdrawal rates in some courses approaching 70%. files.eric.ed.gov

Structural Barriers

Navigating the complexities of college systems can be daunting. Barriers such as complicated enrollment processes, limited access to advising, and balancing academic responsibilities with work and family obligations can hinder student success. brookings.edu

About AgileBrain®

AgileBrain® is a breakthrough approach to measure human emotions. Grounded in psychology and leveraging neuroscience, AgileBrain has been proven to capture unmet emotional needs with high accuracy and specificity. AgileBrain is the subject of 10+ peer-reviewed articles in leading psychology journals and has been extensively validated in multiple, large-scale user studies. AgileBrain is recognized by Buros Center for Testing, the leading catalogue of psychological assessments, and is fully-compliant with the American Psychological Association guidelines for valid assessment.

The secret to AgileBrain’s success is found in the what and the how it measures human emotions. The What is the AgileBrain Framework, an elegant distillation of 150 years of psychological theory (over 100 theories of motivation in all) into 4 domains of living (self, material, social and spiritual) and 3 levels of living (foundational, experiential and aspirational). The AgileBrain Framework makes it easy to understand and educate people – through AgileBrain exercises and lessons – thereby building their emotional awareness of and resiliency. The How are AgileBrain Exercises, quick (3-minute) image-selection activities that bypass cognitive bias to capture people’s subconscious, emotional needs within the AgileBrain Framework. AgileBrain captures the image selections and speed of selection and converts response data into digital form, literally converting emotions into data to support accurate measurement at the individual and group levels and at the current time and in over-time comparisons. These metrics include emotional Activation (a proxy for stress), emotional Positivity (a proxy for outlook) and an overall wellbeing. In addition, AgileBrain also calculates an emotional needs state (AgileBrain 10 State) that can provide more insight to support counseling.

Note: AgileBrain provides wellbeing information; it does not diagnose or recommend treatment for any mental illness.

Emotions ≠ Thoughts

AgileBrain targets emotions and not thoughts.

Images ≠ Words

AgileBrain shows images and not words.

Fast ≠ Slow

AgileBrain is very quick, the exercise is around 3 minutes.

AgileBrain® AI Coach

AgileBrain has just released its own AI-enabled coach, named “Dr. Bill,” to assist in interpreting AgileBrain results and in supporting the wellbeing journey. Dr. Bill’s chat interface is fed with the individual’s or group’s specific AgileBrain emotional needs metrics and informed and bounded by AgileBrain content to provide an exceptionally accurate and personalized emotional feedback experience.

Dr. Bill can be used in a variety of scenarios, including:

By Counselors and Advisors – to speed preparation for and productivity during counseling sessions
By Administrators – to identify unmet emotional need areas for improvement and best practices to leverage in their schools

Coming Soon, JD the Penguin, a student-facing chatbot!

For use by students, the JD chatbot is informed by the student’s inspo powered by AgileBrain results as well as AgileBrain content. This empowers each student to have a rich conversation with JD about their results to gain additional insights and actionable steps on their emotional wellbeing journey. If the student indicates distress or needs immediate help, JD will refer them to specific resources on campus and in the community.

Program Benefits

Most Accurate Wellbeing Metrics

AgileBrain’s breakthrough approach produces highly accurate emotional state metrics, including Activation (a measure of emotional stress level), Positivity (a measure of emotional outlook) and Wellbeing (a derived score, reflecting overall emotional state). These measures have been validated in repeated studies, peer reviewed in leading psychology journals, posted to the National Institute of Health Library of Medicine (1) and used in practice.

Gamified to Engage and Repeat

Traditional cognitive assessments telegraph what they are trying to assess. As a result, they are easily faked and have declining value if repeated too frequently. too often these assessments are long and suffer declining response and confidence. AgileBrain is a rapid-exposure image assessment that is very difficult to fake (the images disappear too quickly), takes just 3 minutes to complete and can be repeated frequently to track progress over time.

Why this is important: Students are comfortable on their laptops or mobile phones, using their thumbs to select images. It’s fun, fast and remarkably effective.

Finally, a Framework of Emotions!

The AgileBrain Framework integrates 100+ theories of emotion into a 12-cell framework: 4 domains (self, material, social and spiritual) and 3 levels (foundational, experiential and aspirational). It’s easy to understand, applies across all domains of human emotion (wellbeing, engagement, teams, culture) and can be measured in minutes.

Why this is important: A common framework to measure what motivates people (students, teachers, parents), supporting better decisions and communications to address issues like teacher burnout.

Socio-Emotional Learning that Students Love!

No one learns a framework of emotions in school. No wonder we struggle to talk about emotions, even as adults. The AgileBrain Framework can be easily taught to students via the inspo by AgileBrain’s socio-emotional learning curriculum or by integrating AgileBrain content and exercises into existing school curriculum.

Why this is important: Students love the interactive inspo by AgileBrain modules and show heightened interest in learning about their emotions.

Personalized Student Counseling Support via Portal

Individual students can complete an AgileBrain Exercise in 3-minutes before a counseling session, and the results are instantly available for their school counselor to review via the AgileBrain Portal.

Why this is important: Counselors can increase their student “throughput” by speeding time-to-insight.

Most Powerful Emotional State Chatbot Available

The “Dr. Bill” chatbot is powered by the AgileBrain framework and fed with the individual student’s AgileBrain emotional state data. As a result, the school counselor has access to an unmatched AI assistant to prepare in advance of a session, use during a counseling session and revisit after the session.

Why this is important: Counselors can connect with students in more profound ways to deepen the level of insight and enhance the plan.

A Thermometer and a Scan

The Wellbeing Index is a single, powerful metric that is highly correlated with critical measures of public health (2). Use it to focus-in on “hot spots” and then drill deeper to the level of the 12-cell AgileBrain profile to determine the source of the emotional unrest. For example, loneliness can manifest in two very different ways: one an unmet need for Inclusion, the other an unmet need for personal Authenticity. While the solution for the former might be to foster social interactions, that intervention could do real harm to individuals who are suffering self-identity problems.

Why this is important: Better understanding of individual’s and group’s unmet emotional needs increases the likelihood that the intervention is effective.

Scalable

AgileBrain is a digital solution with simple common interface and set of metrics, to scale globally. AgileBrain Exercises work across languages, literacy levels, age groups and culture (image sets and feedback can be modified for regions and age groups).

Why this is important: A universal metric for human emotions for students, adults, staff, and faculty.