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Engaging Faculty in Using Data to Increase Student Success

Engaging Faculty in Using Data to Increase Student Success. Dr. Karen Stout, President Leon Hill, Director of Institutional Research David Whalen, Instructor of Biology Barbara Lontz, Assistant Professor of Mathematics Diane McDonald, Assistant Professor of English

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Engaging Faculty in Using Data to Increase Student Success

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  1. Engaging Faculty in Using Data to Increase Student Success Dr. Karen Stout, President Leon Hill, Director of Institutional Research David Whalen, Instructor of Biology Barbara Lontz, Assistant Professor of Mathematics Diane McDonald, Assistant Professor of English 2012 D.R.E.A.M. Annual Meeting

  2. About the College • More than 33,000 annual unduplicated credit and non-credit students • 14,900 fall 2011 credit students • Two campuses • Suburban Philadelphia location in County with 800,000 residents • Highly competitive higher education marketplace

  3. Engagement of the Data

  4. Gateway Courses • ACC 111 • BIO 121 • BIO 131 • CHE 121 • ENG 010 • ENG 011 • ENG 101 • HIS 205 • MAT 010 • MAT 011 • MAT 011B • MAT 106 • MAT 100 • SCS 101

  5. Examples of Our “Stage 1” Data Analysis: MAT 010

  6. Examples of Our “Stage 1” Data Analysis: MAT 010

  7. Examples of Our “Stage 1” Data Analysis: MAT 010

  8. Next Steps • Creation of strategies to address these issues in certain courses. • BIO 131 • MAT 010 • ENG 101

  9. BIOLOGY 131:Human Anatomy & Physiology

  10. Low overall success rates (<55%) in Anatomy & Physiology I, a “gatekeeper” Biology course • Anatomy & Physiology I prerequisite: • High school biology within the past 5 years orsuccessful completion of General Biology • General Biology students successfully complete Anatomy & Physiology at a FAR higher rate than high school biology students The Problem

  11. Past Success Rates in A&P I 73% % Successful 38%

  12. Relationship between Placement Exam Score and A&P I Success Rates for 2009-2010 2009/FA 2010/SP N=767 students Percent Success in A&P I Biology Placement Exam Score

  13. A&P I prerequisite for new students: • Successful completion of General Biology or passing score on the Biology Placement Exam • Cutoff score: • Students scoring >55% place into A&P I (BIO 131) • Students scoring <55% place into General Biology I (BIO 121) • Online review materials are available to students preparing for the Biology Placement Exam • For more information: http://www.mc3.edu/admissions/gettingStarted/placement/bio.aspx Implementation of Biology Placement Exam

  14. MATH 010: Fundamentals of Arithmetic

  15. Developmental Math Crisis • Data received identified the arithmetic/prealgebra course as having the lowest success rate of any course at the College • Challenge was to increase success rates without changing or lowering learning outcomes • Potential solutions included Learning Communities & Supplemental Instruction

  16. Course Redesign • The delivery format changed from a presentation of topics to an understanding of concepts • The teaching approach switched from a mastery of skills to a discovery approach • Concepts of Numbers for Arithmetic & Prealgebra was developed in fall 2008 • Awarded a Hewlett Scaling Innovation grant in fall 2011

  17. Concepts Data

  18. ENGLISH 101: Composition

  19. Writeplacer 4 Scoring Rubric English 101 Learning Outcomes Read Critically Evaluate a writing task for purpose, audience, context, and point of view Address a topic using a rhetorical strategy appropriate to the writing task Develop coherent and persuasive essays that present carefully developed and well-supported theses Use formal, standard usage, grammar, and punctuation • Develops a viable point of view on the issue • May stray from audience and purpose • Demonstrates some critical thinking, though perhaps inconsistently • May lack control of organization or focus • Contains some errors in sentence structure and grammatical conventions

  20. Placement Cut Off Scores Writeplacer Accuplacer

  21. SAT Exemption

  22. Evaluation of Initiatives

  23. Dissemination of Results • Research and Practice • Academic Division Presentations • General Faculty Meetings • President’s Cabinet • Board of Trustees • National/Regional Conferences

  24. Gateway Course Academy • Outgrowth of the initiatives: • Goal is to provide faculty with the necessary support to develop, implement and evaluate improvements • Cross-disciplinary team (Economics, Beginning Algebra, Criminal Justice, Intro to Education , US History & Basic Writing 2) • Members identify a course-based research question

  25. Gateway Academy • Broader issues of student motivation, college readiness and faculty development are discussed • Future expansion of the group will be on-going

  26. Final Thoughts

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