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Achieving The Dream: Use of Data

Achieving The Dream: Use of Data. Kathryn Baker Smith, Guilford Tech Bill Thompson, Wayne Community College LaSylvia Pugh, Durham Tech Mary Cauley, Martin Community College. Achieving The Dream: Community Colleges Count. Access and Success for Underserved Populations

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Achieving The Dream: Use of Data

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  1. Achieving The Dream: Use of Data Kathryn Baker Smith, Guilford Tech Bill Thompson, Wayne Community College LaSylvia Pugh, Durham Tech Mary Cauley, Martin Community College

  2. Achieving The Dream: Community Colleges Count • Access and Success for Underserved Populations • $400,000 Over Four Years • 27 Colleges in first Round – 4 in North Carolina

  3. Achieving The Dream: National Goals More students will: • Complete developmental courses & progress to credit-bearing courses • Successfully complete gateway courses • Re-enroll from one semester to the next • Earn certificates and degrees

  4. Achieving The Dream: Culture of Evidence • Set clear college goals • Use data to document successes, identify weaknesses and problems and measure progress toward goals • Make decisions and allocate resources based on evidence • Analyze data across the entire college

  5. Select  Evaluate  Select/Modify  Goals Interventions Achieving The Dream: Culture of Evidence

  6. GTCC Example: College Goals • Graduation rate will improve from 13% to 20% • Fall to Fall retention as measured by the state will increase from 56% to 60% • Fall to Fall retention of developmental students will improve from 49% to 55% • % of developmental students who are taking college level courses after one year will increase from 32% to 40% • Success in gateway courses will improve by 4% - and by 4% by gender (focus on males)

  7. GTCC Example: Orientation • Need: Data-based clues • Retention rates • Success rates • Faces of the Future • Response: Redesign the “Front Door Experience”

  8. GTCC Example: Orientation • Session I: Student Success Starts Here • Negotiating campus, College services • Employability skills • Session II: Success Strategies • Learning styles • Study skills • Session III: Planning Your Path to Success • Program-specific information • Registration information • Session IV: for spouses, parents, friends

  9. GTCC Example: Orientation • Fall, 2005 – 10 sessions, all Jamestown • 2,250 signed up • 1,412 attended • 136 parents/spouses/friends came along • Spring, 2006 – 4 sessions at Jamestown, 2 in High Point, 2 in Greensboro • 736 signed up • 414 attended • 15 parents/spouses/friends came along

  10. GTCC Example: Orientation • First Evaluation: Satisfaction • Session I: 87.7% • Session II: 91.1% • Session III: 94.5% • They: • Felt Welcomed • Thought staff were knowledgeable • Understood the registration process • Would encourage others to attend • Wanted to Register at the Same Time

  11. GTCC Example: Orientation • Changes: • Registration became final activity • Orientation expanded to all campus locations • Faculty and counselors facilitated sessions II and III and advised students

  12. GTCC Example: OrientationWho Came?

  13. GTCC Example: OrientationPersistence Fall to Spring

  14. GTCC Example: OrientationWho Persisted?

  15. GTCC Example: OrientationSuccess Rates in English

  16. GTCC Example: OrientationWho Came?

  17. GTCC Example: Orientation • Restructured Evaluation • Advice of “Data Coach” • Rate confidence level of learning in specific subject matter • Suggestions for Workshop topics

  18. GTCC Example: ACA 111 • Required in Office Systems Technology, Paralegal • Linked to gateway course • Taught in first two weeks

  19. GTCC Example: ACA 111Persistence Fall to Spring • Office Systems Technology • Fall 2004 44% (comparison group) • Fall 2005 87% • Paralegal • Fall 2004 60% (comparison group) • Fall 2005 94%

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