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Lisa Levinson

News: Using Data to Drive Performance - Inside Higher Ed - 1 views

www.insidehighered.com/...analytics

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  • Lisa Levinson on 12 May 10
     
    Action Analytics, which they define as "a multi-dimensional effort aimed squarely at fundamental and strategic education reform in the context of massive economic, social, and technological change... [A]ction analytics strategically uses data, statistics, predictive modeling and visualization to promote student success, achieve institutional efficiency, and demonstrate transparency."
Matt Smith

Senate committee offers advice to colleges - 0 views

www.timesrecordnews.com/...-fdgfgdfdgdf-its-a-practical-t

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shared by Matt Smith on 20 Dec 10 - No Cached
  • Matt Smith on 20 Dec 10
     
    Details Texas Senate Higher Education Interim Committee's study report. Committee offered 86 recommendations on variety of topics: dual credit, distance education, cost-cutting, performance funding, remedial education.
Bruce Vandal

TX Senate Committee Announces Recommendations - 0 views

tccta.typepad.com/...announces-recommendations.html

Texas assessment funding adult_basic_education instruction modules community_college limits diagnostic

shared by Bruce Vandal on 05 Jan 11 - No Cached
  • Bruce Vandal on 05 Jan 11
     
    Blog entry from Texas Community College Teachers Association on recommendations from Texas Senate Committee on Higher Education. The report offers recommendations on developmental education.
Bruce Vandal

Texas Senate Higher Education Committee Interim Report - 0 views

www.senate.state.tx.us/...c560.InterimReport81.pdf

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  • Bruce Vandal on 05 Jan 11
     
    Report in preparation for legislative session with recommendations for action. Report includes recommendations on developmental education.
Bruce Vandal

Redesigning Community Colleges for Completion: Lessons from Research on High-Performanc... - 0 views

ccrc.tc.columbia.edu/Publication.asp

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shared by Bruce Vandal on 20 Jan 11 - No Cached
  • this paper identifies eight practices common among high-performance organizations: leadership, focus on the customer, functional alignment, process improvement, use of measurement, employee involvement and professional development, and external linkages. Evidence suggests that these organizational practices have the greatest impact on performance when implemented in concert with one another.
  • Bruce Vandal on 20 Jan 11
     
    Paper from CCRC identifying the elements of highly effective community colleges.
Matt Smith

Accelerating Remedial Math Education: How Institutional Innovations and State Policy In... - 4 views

occrl.illinois.edu/...remedialmath.pdf

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shared by Matt Smith on 11 Feb 11 - No Cached
  • Matt Smith on 11 Feb 11
     
    Details the tension between institutions developing innovative approaches to assess students and deliver remedial content and state policies that reinforce the traditional course-based design.
Mary Fulton

'Tracking' Revived at Community Colleges - 0 views

www.mysanantonio.com/...-community-colleges-969326.php

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shared by Mary Fulton on 25 Jan 11 - No Cached
  • Mary Fulton on 25 Jan 11
     
    Facing dwindling state dollars and more pressure to graduate students, Texas community colleges may begin steering students who test at the lowest skill levels toward shorter vocational programs or adult basic education before attempting college academics. (San Antonio Express-News, 01/21/11)
Mary Fulton

Dream On - 0 views

www.insidehighered.com/...he_dream_in_community_colleges

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shared by Mary Fulton on 11 Feb 11 - No Cached
  • Mary Fulton on 11 Feb 11
     
    Article discusses a comprehensive evaluation of Achieving the Dream, which reveals that overall trends in student outcomes at the first 26 institutions to join the project remained relatively unchanged after five years, even though the colleges adopted a wide range of strategies to improve them. (Inside Higher Ed, 02/10/11)
Mary Fulton

Turning the Tide: Five Years of Achieving the Dream in Community Colleges - 0 views

www.mdrc.org/...overview.html

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  • Mary Fulton on 11 Feb 11
     
    Report examines the first 26 colleges to join Achieving the Dream. The colleges developed more sophisticated methods for data analysis and efficient systems for monitoring their efforts to improve student achievement. Conversely, about one-fifth of the colleges still struggled to implement many of the initiative's recommended practices, hindered primarily by weak institutional research capacity. (MDRC and Community College Research Center, February 2011)
Matt Smith

Assessing Developmental Assessment in Community Colleges - 2 views

ccrc.tc.columbia.edu/Publication.asp

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shared by Matt Smith on 18 Feb 11 - No Cached
  • Matt Smith on 18 Feb 11
     
    The report from the Community College Research Center studies the validity of developmental education assessments in predicting retention and student completion odds. While many have focused on instructional innovations, few have studied the empirical power of assessments to predict future performance.
Mary Fulton

CUNY Adjusts Amid Tide of Remedial Students - 0 views

www.nytimes.com/...04remedial.html

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shared by Mary Fulton on 04 Mar 11 - No Cached
  • Mary Fulton on 04 Mar 11
     
    Discusses the increasing number of students at CUNY that require remediation, including those with deficits in multiple subjects. (NYT, 03/03/11)
Mary Fulton

UMass courting two-year transfers - 1 views

www.boston.com/...umass_expands_outreach_effort

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shared by Mary Fulton on 23 Mar 11 - No Cached
  • Mary Fulton on 23 Mar 11
     
    Describes a new effort by UMass - Amherst to recruit community college graduates to the state university's flagship campus. Starting this fall, UMass will offer students who transfer from community colleges with a minimum 2.5 grade-point average priority course registration and housing, scholarships to cover hefty student fees, and special advising services. (Boston Globe, 03/22/11)
Mary Fulton

Engaging Adjunct and Full-Time Faculty in Student Success Innovation - 1 views

www.publicagenda.org/...faculty_in_student_success.pdf

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shared by Mary Fulton on 25 Mar 11 - No Cached
  • Mary Fulton on 25 Mar 11
     
    Discusses core principles and promising practices for engaging faculty in changing community colleges and closing student achievement gaps. (Public Agenda and Achieving the Dream, March 2011)
Mary Fulton

Opening Doors to Student Success: A Synthesis of Findings from an Evaluation at Six Com... - 2 views

www.mdrc.org/...policybrief.pdf

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shared by Mary Fulton on 25 Mar 11 - No Cached
  • Mary Fulton on 25 Mar 11
     
    Partnering with six community colleges, MDRC developed and evaluated four distinct programs based on the following approaches: financial incentives, reforms in instructional practices, and enhancements in student services. (MDRC, March 2011)
Bruce Vandal

Student Progression Through Developmental Sequences in Community Colleges - 0 views

www.postsecondaryresearch.org/...anel1_Bailey%20Jeong%20Cho.pdf

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shared by Bruce Vandal on 15 Jun 11 - No Cached
  • Bruce Vandal on 15 Jun 11
     
    Research on the lack of progress that students make in developmental education. It attributes student failure to the fact that they don't begin or complete the full sequence of courses.
Matt Smith

Task Force Report Outlines Recommendations for Reforming Nevada Community Colleges - 2 views

system.nevada.edu/...BOR-11.pdf

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shared by Matt Smith on 09 Sep 11 - No Cached
  • Matt Smith on 09 Sep 11
     
    Task force report recommends sweeping changes to how community colleges are run. Proposed changes include revamping or tweaking online education, K-12 partnerships, remedial education, tuition pricing, the funding formula and the colleges' governing system, among others.
Mary Fulton

Charting Pathways to Completion for Low-Income Community College Students - 0 views

ccrc.tc.columbia.edu/Publication.asp

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shared by Mary Fulton on 09 Sep 11 - No Cached
  • Mary Fulton on 09 Sep 11
     
    Examines data from Washington State to chart the educational pathways of first-time community college students, with a focus on those from disadvantaged backgrounds. Looks at rates at which students enter a program of study or concentration, amount of remediation taken by students, and rates at which students earn certificates or associate degrees, or transfer to four-year institutions. The paper makes recommendations for practitioners and policymakers. (Community College Research Center, September, 2011)
Mary Fulton

Retrieving the Dream - 1 views

www.insidehighered.com/...oups_after_critical_evaluation

ATD MDRC faculty engagement community_college evaluation sustainability

shared by Mary Fulton on 06 Apr 11 - No Cached
  • Mary Fulton on 06 Apr 11
     
    Article describes Achieving the Dream's efforts to respond to the project's evaluation by MDRC. Efforts include better faculty engagement and professional development, and sustaining and scaling up reforms. (Inside Higher Ed, 04/06/11)
Mary Fulton

Accelerated Learning Project - PowerPoint - 1 views

faculty.ccbcmd.edu/...%20PowerPoint%20Mar%202011.ppt

Transforming Remediation Maryland community_college accelerated

shared by Mary Fulton on 04 Apr 11 - No Cached
  • Mary Fulton on 04 Apr 11
     
    Provides information on the Accelerated Learning Project at the Community College of Baltimore County: background, results, costs and scaling up and replicating the model. (Fall 2010)
Mary Fulton

Get With the Program: Accelerating Community College Students' Entry into and Completio... - 2 views

ccrc.tc.columbia.edu/Publication.asp

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shared by Mary Fulton on 27 Apr 11 - No Cached
  • Bruce Vandal on 27 Apr 11
     
    Paper by Davis Jenkins finds that students should take their remedial education courses as part of a focused program of study, rather than as a stand alone academic activity.
  • Mary Fulton on 14 Feb 12
     
    The paper offers suggestions for ways community colleges can rethink their practices at key stages of students' engagement to substantially increase rates of program entry and completion. (Community College Research Center, January 2012)
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