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Vincent Tinto Syracuse University (315) 443-4763 vtinto@syr

Promoting Student Success in College NMHEAR 2012 Conference Albuquerque, New Mexico February 23, 2012. Vincent Tinto Syracuse University (315) 443-4763 vtinto@syr.edu. Overview. Promoting classroom success Promoting college completion Closing thoughts. Moving from Teaching to Learning.

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Vincent Tinto Syracuse University (315) 443-4763 vtinto@syr

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  1. Promoting Student Success in CollegeNMHEAR 2012 ConferenceAlbuquerque, New MexicoFebruary 23, 2012 Vincent Tinto Syracuse University (315) 443-4763 vtinto@syr.edu

  2. Overview • Promoting classroom success • Promoting college completion • Closing thoughts

  3. Moving from Teaching to Learning Focusing on the conditions in classrooms that enhance student success.

  4. Conditions for Classroom Success • Expectations • Clear, consistent, accurate information • High expectations

  5. Promoting Classroom Success • Expectations • Advising • Knowing the path to completion • Institution • Program • Classroom • Maintaining Standards of Performance • Consistency of words and actions

  6. Conditions for Classroom Success • Expectations • Support • Academic Support • Social Support

  7. Promoting Classroom Success • Expectations • Support • Academic support services to connect and/or integrate support within the classroom • Supplemental instruction • Accelerated learning • Contextualization • Embedded academic support (I-Best) • Basic skills learning communities

  8. Supplemental Instruction (SI) Freshman English Instructor Supplemental Study Groups A B C D Tutor A Tutor B Tutor C Tutor D

  9. Accelerated Learning College English Supplemental Study Group

  10. LaGuardia CC - ESL Linked Courses ESL Developmental English Accounting

  11. “The relationship in classes between accounting and ESL is helping a lot because the accounting professor is teaching us to answer questions in complete sentences … to write better. And we are more motivated to learn vocabulary because it is accounting vocabulary, something we want to learn about. I am learning accounting better by learning the accounting language.”

  12. Conditions for Classroom Success • Expectations • Support • Assessment and Feedback • Institutional monitoring of progress • Classroom assessment of performance

  13. Promoting Classroom Success • Expectations • Support • Feedback • Entry assessment and placement • Early warning • Signals Project • Predictive Analytics • Classroom assessment • One-minute paper • Automated response systems

  14. Conditions for Classroom Success • Expectations • Support • Feedback • Engagement • Contact with students, faculty, and staff • Active engagement in learning with others • Intensity / time-on-task

  15. Promoting Classroom Success • Expectations • Support • Feedback • Involvement • Pedagogies of engagement • Cooperative learning, Problem-based / Project-based learning • Learning communities • Service learning

  16. Linked Courses English 100 Freshman Seminar

  17. Freshman Interest Groups U.S. History English 001 Freshman Seminar

  18. SI Learning Communities Chemistry Mathematics 100 Supplemental Instruction Groups

  19. Promising Practices • Structured First-Year Programs • http://www.fyfoundations.org/ • Statway: Rethinking Development Mathematics • http://www.carnegiefoundation.org/statway • New Faculty Development: Taking Teaching Seriously • Richland Community College

  20. Promoting Student Completion • Identifying roadblocks and momentum points • Focus action to promote timely attainment of intermediate points of achievement (e.g. accelerated learning, intensive first-year programs, stopouts)

  21. Promoting Student Completion Identifying roadblocks and momentum points Constructing coherent pathways to completion Aligning courses to promote timely completion

  22. Promoting Student Success: Building Pathways, Creating MomentumA System Designed for Student Completion ENTRY PROGRESS CONNECTION COMPLETION Enrollment to Completion of Gatekeeper Courses Entry to Course of Study to 75% Completion of Degree Requirements Complete Course of Study For Credential Interest to Application

  23. Closing Thoughts • Student success does not arise by chance

  24. Closing Thoughts • Student success does not arise by chance • It requires intentional, structured, and proactive action

  25. Closing Thoughts • Student success does not arise by chance • No where is student success more important than in the first year and in the classrooms of the first year

  26. Closing Thoughts • Student success does not arise by chance • No where is student success more important than in the first year and in the classrooms of the first year • “Stay the course.” Improvement takes time!

  27. Resources: Successful Programs L. Muraskin and J. Lee, 2004. Raising the Graduation Rates of Low-Income College Students. Washington D.C., The Pell Institute for the Study of Opportunity in Higher Education. McClenney, K. 2012. A Matter of Degrees: Promising Practices for Community College Success. Austin, TX., Community College Survey of Student Engagement.

  28. Resources: Developmental Education Community College Research Center http://ccrc.tc.columbia.edu/

  29. Resources: Supplemental Instruction El Camino Community College http://www.elcamino.edu/studentservices/fye/si/

  30. Resources: Cooperative Learning Barbara Millis 2010. Cooperative Learning in Higher Education.(Sterling, VA: Stylus Publishing). Barkley, E, K.P. Cross, and C. Howell-Major. 2004. Collaborative Learning Techniques: A Handbook for College Faculty.(San Francisco: Jossey-Bass).

  31. Resources: Problem-Based Learning • University of Delaware: Institute for Problem-Based Learning (http://www.udel.edu/pb) Maricopa Center for Learning & Instruction, Maricopa Community Colleges (http://www.mcli.dist.maricopa.edu/pbl) Jose Amador (2006), The Practice of Problem-Based Learning: A Guide to Implementing PBL in the College Classroom. Anker Publishing.

  32. Resources: Learning Communities The Learning Community Commons The Washington Center for Undergraduate Education,TheEvergreen State College http://learningcommons.evergreen.edu

  33. Resources: Learning Communities The Learning Community Listserv Evergreen State College Gillies Malnarich and Emily Lardner 
 Co-Directors, The Washington Center learncom@lists.evergreen.edu

  34. Resources: Basic Skills Instruction Integrated Basic Skills IBEST-Highline Community College http://flightline.highline.edu/ibest/

  35. Resources: Basic Skills Instruction Strengthening Pre-Collegiate Education in Community Colleges (SPECC) http://www.carnegiefoundation.org/programs/ index.asp?key=26

  36. Resources: Classroom Assessment Thomas Angelo and Patricia Cross, 1993. Classroom Assessment Techniques: A Handbook for College Teachers(2nd Edition, San Francisco: Jossey-Bass) Huba, M. and J. Freed. 1999. Learner-Centered Assessment on College Campuses: Shifting Focus from Teaching to Learning(New York: Allyn & Bacon)

  37. Resources: First Year of College Foundations of Excellence In the First Year of College http://www.fyfoundations.org/

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