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Developmental Education

Developmental Education. Rosemary M. Karr, Ph.D. Collin County Community College January 24, 2008. Collin College Statistics. Established in 1985 Multi-campus district Served over 44,000 students in 2007 14,320 Continuing Education 30,247 Credit 5,966 developmental education

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Developmental Education

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  1. Developmental Education Rosemary M. Karr, Ph.D. Collin County Community College January 24, 2008

  2. Collin College Statistics • Established in 1985 • Multi-campus district • Served over 44,000 students in 2007 • 14,320 Continuing Education • 30,247 Credit • 5,966 developmental education • 4,965 developmental mathematics

  3. My Vision To achieve academic excellence, through an integrated, instructional approach that engages a student’s cognitive, affective and psychomotor domains. • teach students to think logically, and challenge them to question WHY mathematics works as it does. • alleviate student’s fear of mathematics, and cultivate their desire to achieve.

  4. Goals • Promote holistic teaching processes that will account for the enormous inherent learning variations among our diverse student population. • Increase candid discussions of effective instructional practices and harness and utilize these best practices.

  5. Strategies • Structure classes to create a collaborative environment. • Foster an attitude of success that extends beyond the classroom…and into life itself. • Measure how well students think through a process. • Measure success by more than a passing grade.

  6. Cognitive Processing Speed Wong, Linda, Essential Study Skills, fifth ed., Houghton Mifflin, 2005

  7. Examples at Collin Breadth and depth at LOCAL levels • Course Scheduling Options: 3, 8 and 16 weeks; self-paced; online; Passport • Summer Formats: 5 or 10 weeks; online • Program Models: • Passport • Bridge • Learning Community

  8. Passport Description • Individualized, flexible, and responsive program where learning is self-paced, NOT self-taught. • Students begin the program from their individual current mathematical competence point. • Students focus on the topic(s) they need. • Students complete one or more course levels during a single semester.

  9. Passport Flexibility • Opportunity to accelerate. • Allowed (up to) an additional 8 weeks to complete the initial course.

  10. Passport Success for Fall 2004 • Completion Rates: • Beginning Algebra, increased by 15%. • Intermediate Algebra, increased by 4%. • Completion Rates in Subsequent Courses: • Increased by 51%.

  11. Bridge Program Pre and Post Assessment and Placement Summer 2007

  12. Learning Community Flyer

  13. Benefits of Learning Communities • Experience a collaborative learning environment. • See the connections between courses. • Enjoy a variety of learning experiences. • Get to know professors and fellow students better.

  14. Outcomes of Learning Community • 18 enrolled (16 on academic probation) • Retention, 76% compared with 80% in Beginning Algebra. • Success, 41% compared with 48% in Beginning Algebra.

  15. Parting Thoughts • State level • Investigate current LOCAL programs. • Disseminate information on successful programs. • College level • Replicate successful programs. • Include part-time faculty in training plan. • Accept students from where they are, not from where we want them to be.

  16. THANK YOU! • I appreciate the opportunity to address the TEXAS Higher Education Coordinating Board.

  17. Student Comments

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