ECoach

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Evidence · 2 claims (2 for) · 1 study (1 design), q4 · 1 of 1 report an effect size · 2 claims rest on one study

Description

ECoach is a web-based student-success coaching platform developed and operated by the University of Michigan to provide course-specific guidance, feedback, progress tracking, and study-support tools.

Components

• ECoach web-based coaching platform with Exam Playbook for large gateway courses: ECoach is a web-based coaching platform that gives students tips about how to approach their course, personalized performance feedback, and success tools. The article states "ECoach helps students learn by prioritizing the most important tasks for each week, tracks their progress on grades and study habits, and provides tailored strategies to help them improve their grade." Student-facing features include the exam playbook, grade calculator, and 'Name that scenario'; faculty-facing features include tailored messages, texts, and emails plus classroom survey and research tools. It is used in introductory statistics, chemistry, biology, and physics, and the report presents it as technology medi (Peters et al. (2022))

Claims

• The exam playbook intervention showed no statistically significant treatment-effect differences by gender, race, class standing, or prior performance [+W]
• A strategic resource-use exam playbook intervention raised final course grades in introductory statistics across two randomized cohorts, with a dosage effect for completing it twice [+W]

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Key Sources

• Peters, V., Pakhira, D., White, L., Fennelly-Atkinson, R., & Means, B. (2022). Designing gateway statistics and chemistry courses for today's students: Case studies of postsecondary course innovations. Digital Promise. https://doi.org/10.51388/20.500.12265/162

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description	ECoach is a web-based student-success coaching platform developed and operated by the University of Michigan to provide course-specific guidance, feedback, progress tracking, and study-support tools.
status	review
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generated	by process:sweep-kinds on 2026-10-10
trust	unverified — no one has confirmed this page's content
sources	1 — peters-2022

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