Shared language and change ideas.
Realtime, actionable feedback for instructors.
Guides & protocols for collaboration.
Disaggregated data for monitoring impact.
Access to a growing, national collaborative.
Students are more engaged and successful when they experience classroom conditions like identity safety and belonging. Ascend helps educators optimize those conditions through:
Why Ascend?
How does it work?
Ascend is a data-driven professional learning program that enables college instructors and administrators to learn how their students are experiencing courses and what they can do to make those experiences more equitable, more engaging, and more supportive of student success.
Timely reports reveal the learning conditions in each class and how they are changing.
2. Reflect on Feedback
A 5-10 minute, customizable survey shows how students experience each class.
1. Elevate Student Voice
Implement the selected strategies. Then start a new cycle to assess impact & keep growing.
4. Improve & Repeat
Consult practice guides and protocols to decide what new practices to test out.
3. Select New Practices
First launched at Stanford in 2019, today Ascend is used in colleges and universities across the country. It’s always improving through the tireless efforts of a diverse collaborative of educators, researchers, students, and educational organizations.
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I have been wanting to look at my equity gaps in my classes for quite some time, but I didn’t really know where to start, so I really like that they held my hand through this entire process and made it easy for me.
Dr. Joyce Lin
Assistant Professor of Child and Adolescent Studies
CSU Fullerton
What I really like about Ascend is the real-time data to see what is working and what is not working in my class… I really felt supported in my ability to create change [so all students feel valued, respected, and capable of earning a college degree].
Heather Robbins
Senior Lecturer
University of Toledo
Sign Up for Ascend Basic
Ascend Basic is perfect for a group of 1-10 motivated, self-facilitated instructors. This free option enables instructors to survey students 3-8 times and receive timely, class-level reports with disaggregated survey results and trends. Instructors use Ascend’s self-service support portal to access resources and find answers to commonly asked questions.
Sign Up for Ascend Basic
Ascend Basic is perfect for a group of 1-10 motivated, self-facilitated instructors. This free option enables instructors to survey students 3-8 times and receive timely, class-level reports with disaggregated survey results and trends. Instructors use Ascend’s self-service support portal to access resources and find answers to commonly asked questions.
Questions?
The Ascend knowledge base answers dozens of common questions, including about:
About PERTS
The Project for Education Research That Scales (PERTS) is a nonprofit research and development institute that translates insights from psychological science into cutting-edge tools, measures, and recommendations that educators anywhere can use to foster healthy and equitable academic engagement and success.