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Accountability Reporting for the Community Colleges

Accountability Reporting for the Community Colleges. presented by David Torres, District Dean, Institutional Research March 14, 2008. Background. Accountability Reporting for the Community Colleges (or ARCC) is a set of performance indicators for the California Community Colleges (CCC)

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Accountability Reporting for the Community Colleges

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  1. Accountability Reporting for the Community Colleges presented by David Torres, District Dean, Institutional Research March 14, 2008

  2. Background • Accountability Reporting for the Community Colleges (or ARCC) is a set of performance indicators for the California Community Colleges (CCC) • ARCC meets a legislative requirement that resulted from Assembly Bill 1417 • Chancellor’s Office produces this report yearly • The present report will be published on March 31, 2008

  3. ARCC Objectives • The report’s objectives are • to make policymakers, local college officials, and elected boards aware of system and college performance in specific areas of effort • to inform the public about overall system performance.

  4. ARCC Framework & Creators Framework and content of the report created by: • statewide college researchers • nationally recognized researchers on college performance • technical advisory workgroup • staff at the Chancellor’s Office

  5. ARCC Reporting Structure • Indicators are derived from many data sources • public and private institutions of higher learning • California Employment Development Department • National Student Clearinghouse • Chancellor’s Office

  6. ARCC Reporting Structure • Two level of analysis: • system wide performance • individual college performance • student progress and achievement • degree and certificate attainment • transfer rates • vocational, occupational and workforce development • participation rates • pre-collegiate improvement • basic skills • English as a Second Language

  7. Selected Systemwide Indicators:CCC Transfers to UC/CSU

  8. Selected Systemwide Indicators:CCC Transfers Graduating from UC/CSU

  9. Selected Systemwide Indicators:CCC Transfers to In-State Private and Out-of-State 4-Year Universities

  10. Selected Systemwide Indicators:Transfer Rate to Four-Year Institutions • Percentage of first-time students with • a minimum of 12 units earned • who attempted transfer-level Math or English and • who transferred to a four-year institution within six years

  11. Selected Systemwide Indicators:Income Trend for Students Attaining Degree or Certificate in 2000-2001 The trend line for CCC Median Income suggests that students receiving awards from community college programs generally experience wage gains in the years following attainment.

  12. RCC’s College Level Indicators:Student Progress and Achievement Rate • Percentage of first-time students who showed intent to complete • and within six years: • transferred to a four-year college or • earned an AA/AS or • earned a Certificate (18 units or more) or • achieved "Transfer Directed" status or • achieved "Transfer Prepared" status

  13. RCCD 2008 ARCC Results: Percentages of First-Time Students and Student Progress and Achievement Rate by Ethnicities

  14. RCC’s College Level Indicators:Percent of Students Who Earned at Least 30 Units • Percentage of first-time students who showed • intent to complete and within six years: • earned at least 30 units • while in the California Community College System

  15. RCC’s College Level Indicators:Term to Term Persistence Rate • Percentage of first-time students with: • a minimum of six units earned in a Fall term, and • returned and enrolled in the subsequent Fall term • anywhere in the system.

  16. RCC’s College Level Indicators:Annual Successful Course Completion Rate for Credit Vocational Courses • Percentage of student enrollments: • in credit-based classes and • courses coded as “Clearly Occupational” or higher • where students earned an A, B, C or CR grade

  17. RCC’s College Level Indicators:Annual Successful Course Completion Rate for Credit Basic Skills Courses • Percentage of student enrollments: • in credit-based classes and • courses coded as “Basic Skills” • where students earned an A, B, C or CR grade

  18. RCC’s College Level Indicators:Improvement Rates for ESL and Credit Basic Skills Courses • Percentage of students who: • successfully completed the initial basic skills course and • successfully completed a higher-level course in the same discipline • within three academic years

  19. RCC’s College Level Indicators:Headcount and FTES Data Sources: Annual Unduplicated Headcount: Chancellor’s Office Management Information System (COMIS) Full-Time Equivalent Students (FTES): 320 Report from CCCCO Fiscal Services

  20. RCC’s College Level Indicators:Student Age & Gender

  21. RCC’s College Level Indicators:Student Ethnicity

  22. RCC’s College Level Indicators:Peer Grouping • The Chancellor’s Office created “peer group colleges” in an attempt to “level the playing field”. • For every college-level indicator, there are external factors beyond the control of the college that affect its performance on that indicator. • Colleges were grouped as “peers” based on the statistical magnitude that these external factors had on each college-level indicator.

  23. RCC’s College Level Indicators:Peer Grouping: Transfer Example • Transfer rates are affected by external factors: • level of academic preparedness of student body • distance to nearest UC/CSU • income levels of service areas • percentage of older students served • Colleges with similar levels on all these factors and would be classified together as “peers”.

  24. RCC’s College Level Indicators:Peer Grouping: Issues to Consider • Peer grouping was statistically derived • does not necessarily reflect any traditional, intuitive grouping method • Since each indicator is affected by different external factors, each college is assigned to different peer groups for each indicator • RCC has no single peer college for each indicator • Peer grouping is intended to provide a more equitable context for interpreting college performance • College to college comparisons are not encouraged

  25. RCC’s College Level Indicators:Peer Grouping: Summary

  26. ARCC: Next Steps • Each community college provided a response to the January 2008 ARCC draft for inclusion in the March 2008 final report • Responses were to provide further context for interpreting their institution’s statistics • Presentation of the ARCC findings need to be made to local governing boards prior to March 2009

  27. ARCC: Summary • The Accountability Reporting for the Community Colleges (ARCC) was created to inform the public about the performance of the California Community Colleges • The report will be updated every year by the Chancellor’s Office • On 6 of the 7 accountability measures, RCCD’s ratings remained stable or increased during the most recent three years.

  28. Accountability Reporting for the Community Colleges End of slide show

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