Calculate the Impact of a Partnership for Your Institution
Use this calculator to see the estimated impact based on data from our existing partners. Contact us to get a more detailed estimate based on your institution’s unique situation.
At Top Hat, our mission is to help faculty and institutions deliver better learning—and better outcomes—to as many students as possible. Our engagement platform helps faculty bring active learning strategies into their courses, leading them to see benefits like increased student engagement, improved exam performance and grades, and a higher passing rate. ¹Research shows that frequent, low-stakes assessment—one of Top Hat’s key features—is connected to improved academic performance. Thanks to these improvements and affordable content initiatives, an institution’s site-wide investment in our platform can pay for itself within just three years.
Use this calculator to see the estimated impact based on data from our existing partners. Contact us to get a more detailed estimate based on your institution’s unique situation.
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Contact UsHere is a leading example of how an educator used Top Hat to dramatically improve student performance. Stephanie Dillon, Director of Freshman Laboratories at Florida State University, saw DFW rates—the percentage of students who earn a D, F, or withdraw from the course—of over 28% in General Chemistry courses taken by 2,500 students each semester. Along with her colleagues, she used Top Hat, Aktiv Learning, and Canvas to flip the class and change their teaching approach. Between the 2017 and 2022 Fall semesters, the percentage of A’s increased by 23% and DFWs decreased by 22%.
When Top Hat is made available across campus by an institution, more faculty choose to teach with it—leading to wider implementation of active learning strategies that help improve student outcomes. Our team works with our institutional partners to achieve their student success goals by tailoring implementation and training plans for faculty to each institution’s preferences, pace, and needs. On average, we see Top Hat platform usage grow to 60 to 80% of enrollments within three years of beginning our partnership, giving more students opportunities to succeed.
We can also be your partner for initiatives in making course materials more affordable. Our flexible authoring platform, low-cost digital textbooks, and custom content solutions can reduce the cost of course materials to under $50. In a leading example, Top Hat helped Ohio University students save more than $1 million in less than one year. At institutional partner schools, on average 14% of courses that use our platform also use a Top Hat eText.
This institution's adoption grew to 77% of total enrollment after an enterprise agreement in 2018.
Our services and support teams help educators evolve how they use Top Hat, leading to improvements in how they apply evidence-based practices to their own teaching. And thanks to the powerful insights collected by our platform, widespread use produces data that can be applied to student success efforts to help increase retention. The better educators make use of Top Hat, the better results an institution can realize.
We can’t wait to show you how an investment in our platform can save your school and your students money.
¹ Sotola, L. K., & Crede, M. (2021). Regarding class quizzes: A meta-analytic synthesis of studies on the relationship between frequent low-stakes testing and class performance. Educational Psychology Review, 33(2), 407–426.
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*Our calculations are only an estimate. For a more detailed estimate tailored to your institution’s specific needs and goals, contact us today.