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VIRGINIA’S POSTSECONDARY OUTREACH CAMPAIGN AND DATA COLLECTION

VIRGINIA’S POSTSECONDARY OUTREACH CAMPAIGN AND DATA COLLECTION. Postsecondary Outreach Campaign. Secretary of Education presentations: Public College Presidents Private College President Advisory Group Community College Presidents Chief Academic Officers Prominent Virginia Business Leaders

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VIRGINIA’S POSTSECONDARY OUTREACH CAMPAIGN AND DATA COLLECTION

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  1. VIRGINIA’S POSTSECONDARY OUTREACH CAMPAIGN AND DATA COLLECTION

  2. Postsecondary Outreach Campaign • Secretary of Education presentations: • Public College Presidents • Private College President Advisory Group • Community College Presidents • Chief Academic Officers • Prominent Virginia Business Leaders • Virginia Board of Education • State Council of Higher Education Academic Affairs Committee • P-16 Council

  3. Gathering Data • Feedback requested from 30 institutions: • 10 four-year/junior college public institutions • 10 four-year private institutions • 10 community colleges • Each to provide two small multi-disciplinary • faculty teams (3-5) to complete math and English essential skills survey.

  4. Gathering Data • Conference Call Instructions: • Specific entry-level, credit-bearing first year general education courses • Rate each skill as to how critical it is for success in specific course • Aim for level of competency an 18-year-old entering college should have, not level that may be accommodated   • One survey per course discussed • Differentiate • Additional comments on essential skills

  5. Essential Entry-Level Skills – English- page 5 Please identify any other essential skills that first time freshman need to be successful in your entry-level, credit bearing English course.

  6. Gathering Data • Three weeks to complete survey • Surveys returned by early summer • Data entry and analysis June-July

  7. English Survey Data Collection Side by Side Comparison: Relevant Survey Question: Survey Results: • Not important for college readiness according to survey results

  8. English Survey Data Collection Side by Side Comparison: Relevant Survey Question: Survey Results: • High priority for technical team and colleges to add to curriculum framework.

  9. Narrative Feedback: English • Largest overall emphasis on basic comprehension skills—identification, understanding, and beginning to analyze the key ideas of passages and texts. • Emphasis across disciplines on the ability to raise critical questions after reading a text. • Emphasis across disciplines on research and study skills, particularly citations, use of sources, and academic integrity. • Noticeable emphasis among community colleges on basic grammar and sentence-level construction and syntax skills. • Significant emphasis placedon organizational skills, time management and other soft skills.

  10. The Math Survey Data CollectionAverage & Standard Deviation by Discipline for Each Strand Number sense & numerical operations, algebra, and math reasoning rated most critical Geometry more essential to math faculty/less essential to science and other faculty Data Interpretation, Statistics & Probability strand more essential to disciplines outside of mathematics.

  11. VIRGINIA’S POSTSECONDARY OUTREACH CAMPAIGN AND DATA COLLECTION

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