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Assessing Student Outcomes in Community Colleges

Assessing Student Outcomes in Community Colleges. Thomas Bailey Community College Research Center Teachers College/Columbia University Education Writers Association Conference Juggling Roles: Where do Community Colleges Fit? San Antonio, TX February 18, 2006. Outline.

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Assessing Student Outcomes in Community Colleges

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  1. Assessing Student Outcomes in Community Colleges Thomas Bailey Community College Research Center Teachers College/Columbia University Education Writers Association Conference Juggling Roles: Where do Community Colleges Fit? San Antonio, TX February 18, 2006

  2. Outline • Students outcomes are complex in community colleges • Institutional graduation rates are low but vary widely • Individual graduation rates are higher • Are graduation rates too low?—Yes, but • Possible stories

  3. Complexity of Student Outcomes • Part-time students • Older students with varied goals • Transfer without graduation • Students face greater social and economic barriers

  4. Outcome Measures • Institutional graduation • Individual graduation • Retention • Many intermediate achievements • Transfer • Employment

  5. Institutional Graduation Rates • National Center for Education Statistics—(Student Right to Know)—3 year graduation rates for first time, full-time degree-seeking students • National Average—30.0% • Lowest—Maryland—12.1% • Highest—South Dakota—64.4%

  6. Three-Year Graduation Rates for Associate Students in 2004 Retrieved from www.higheredinfo.org

  7. CC First PSE StudentsPercent Distribution by Highest Outcome in All PSE Within Eight Years (NELS)

  8. Retention Rates: First-Time College Freshmen Returning Their Second Year (2002) Retrieved from www.higheredinfo.org

  9. Percent Distribution by Total Credits Earned in All PSE Within Eight Yearsby Initial Institution Type

  10. Educational Access and SESExperience by 2000 for HS Class of 1992

  11. Are Graduation Rates Too Low? • Students face many problems • Colleges have fewer resources • Students have many goals but are ambitious • Completion varies by race and income

  12. Test Scores for CC and BA Students Source: NELS

  13. Undergraduate Student Characteristics, Percent by Institution Type (2003-04 School Year)

  14. Current Fund Expenditures (per student, 1995-96) Source: U.S. Department of Education. (2002). Digest of Education Statistics.

  15. First-Time Community College StudentsHighest Level of Education Expected, 1995-96 Source: Authors’ calculations using data from BPS:96/01.

  16. CC First PSE Students in Various GroupsPercent Distribution by Highest Outcome in All PSE Within Eight Years (NELS)

  17. Stories • Programs with good outcomes for strong and middle class students • What accounts for variation in outcomes? • What are colleges doing to address the problems of low income and minority students? • Success stories of students beating the odds—accounts of the barriers that students must overcome • Why is funding low in community colleges when they serve the students with the greatest problems?

  18. Useful Websites • www.ccrc.tc.columbia.edu • www.higheredinfo.org • www.achievingthedream.org

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