From Promising to High-Impact Practices

1. From Promising to High-Impact Practices Evelyn WaiwaioleProgram Manager, High-Impact Practices Jeff CrumpleyAssociate Director CCCSE Center for Community College Student Engagement

2. Identifying and Promoting High-Impact Educational Practices in Community Colleges • 3 Year Initiative • Funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and Lumina Foundation • Analyze data from four surveys • Focus groups • Institutes • National Reports • Initiative ends August, 2014

3. CCCSE: Collecting Data from Many Perspectives Four surveys that complement one another: • CCSSE • CCFSSE • SENSE • CCIS

4. CCCSE: Collecting Data from Many Perspectives

5. CCCSE: Collecting Data from Many Perspectives • Qualitative and quantitative data • Surveys provide quantitative data. • Focus groups from the Initiative on Student Success and High-Impact Practice Initiative provide qualitative data.

6. CCCSE: Collecting Data from Many Perspectives Core surveys and special-focus items • Core surveys are the same from year to year. • Special-focus items examine a specific area and change from year to year. • Special-focus items for the 2011 and 2012 surveys address promising practices for promoting student success and completion.

7. CCSSE High Impact Practices Early Results

8. Promising Practices for Community College Student Success • Planning for Success: Assessment and Placement, Orientation, Academic Goal Setting and Planning, and Registration before Classes Begin • Initiating Success: Accelerated or Fast-Track Developmental Education,First-Year Experience, Student Success Course, and Learning Community • Sustaining Success: Class Attendance,Alert and Intervention,Experiential Learning beyond the Classroom, Tutoring, andSupplemental Instruction

9. CCFSSE High Impact Practices

10. CCFSSE Promising Practice Items combined with Student responses • 11% of CCSSE respondents reported that they registered for class after the first class session has started. (CCSSE, 2011) • Yet, 62% of faculty responders say that at least one student registered late for a class. (CCFSSE, 2011)

11. SENSE High Impact Practices

12. SENSE Promising Practice Items • Entering students and class attendance Source: SENSE 2011

13. What students say about skipping class See CCCSE video at http://www.youtube.com/user/CCCSEVideo

14. CCIS High Impact Practices

15. CCIS, CCSSE, CCFSSE Promising Practices Source: CCIS, CCSSE, CCFSSE 2011

16. Students are not always well-informed See CCCSE video at http://www.youtube.com/user/CCCSEVideo

17. Supplemental Instruction • Students who use it 19% • Faculty who make it available 44% • Colleges that offer it 87% • New Trend?? - 14% of CCIS colleges report mandatory SI for all developmental education students Source: CCSSE, CCFSSE, CCIS 2011

18. A Student Speaks about SI See CCCSE video at http://www.youtube.com/user/CCCSEVideo

19. CCIS High Impact Practices How does student participation in these promising practices show up in CCSSE benchmark scores?

20. 2011 CCSSE Benchmark Scores by Registration – Promising Practice Item #1 Registered for all courses before the first day of class Registered late Sources: 2011 CCSSE data

21. 2011 CCSSE Benchmark Scores by Orientation – Promising Practice Item #2 Participated in Orientation Did not Participate in Orientation Sources: 2011 CCSSE data

22. Views of Orientation See CCCSE video at http://www.youtube.com/user/CCCSEVideo

23. 2011 CCSSE Benchmark Scores by FYE – Promising Practice Item #3 Participated in First Year Experience Did not participate in First Year Experience Sources: 2011 CCSSE data

24. 2011 CCSSE Benchmark Scores by Learning Comm. – Promising Practice Item #4 Participated in Learning Community Did not Participate in Learning Community Sources: 2011 CCSSE data

25. Impression of a first year learning community See CCCSE video at http://www.youtube.com/user/CCCSEVideo

26. 2011 CCSSE Benchmark Scores by SSC – Promising Practice Item #5 Participated in Student Success Course Did not Participate in Student Success Course Sources: 2011 CCSSE data

27. Student Success Courses See CCCSE video at http://www.youtube.com/user/CCCSEVideo

28. High Impact Practices: What comes next?

29. CCIS High Impact Practices:Next steps • Analysis of components inside of each promising practice • Analysis of the relationship between each promising practice and self-reported GPA • Analysis of the relationship between each promising practice and student records • Deeper looks at college specific programs with successful results

30. Questions ? Center for Community College Student Engagement 3316 Grandview Street Austin, Texas 78705 Phone: 512-471-6687 www.ccsse.org