High-impact Educational Practices: What are they? Evelyn

High-impact Educational Practices: What are they? Evelyn Waiwaiole Program Manager, High-Impact Practices Jeff Crumpley Associate Director CCCSE Center for Community College Student Engagement

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 2

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

CCCSE: Collecting Data from Many Perspectives 4

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. 5

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. 6

CCSSE High Impact Practices Early Results

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, and Supplemental Instruction 8

CCFSSE High Impact Practices

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. Yet, 62% of faculty responders say that at least one student registered late for a class 10

SENSE High Impact Practices

SENSE Promising Practice Items Entering students and class attendance All Instructors Explain Class Attendance Policy YES NO 23% 77% Class Attendance In The First Three Weeks Not Skipped Skipped 26% 74% 12

What students say about skipping class 13

CCIS High Impact Practices

CCIS, CCSSE, CCFSSE Promising Practices Promising Practice Colleges That Report Having It Students Who Report Doing It Full-Time Faculty Who Teach or Facilitate Orientation 96% 58% 13% Student Success Course 83% 24% 12% First-Year Experience 58% 26% 17% Learning Community 56% 13% 16% Accelerated Developmental Education 42% 26% 14% 15

Students are not always well-informed 16

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 17

A Student Speaks about SI 18

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

2011 CCSSE Benchmark Scores by Registration – Promising Practice Item #1 50.5 49.6 51.1 50.1 47.9 Registered for all courses before the first day of class 50.1 47.1 49.2 50.0 48.1 Registered late Sources: 2011 CCSSE data 20

2011 CCSSE Benchmark Scores by Orientation – Promising Practice Item #2 52.3 52.8 52.3 47.8 47.2 Participated in Orientation 53.4 52.7 47.8 47.7 45.7 Did not Participate in Orientation Sources: 2011 CCSSE data 21

Views of Orientation 22

2011 CCSSE Benchmark Scores by FYE – Promising Practice Item #3 54.8 55.7 54.8 48.8 57.1 53.5 48.7 Participated in First Year Experience 49.7 48.7 47.6 Did not participate in First Year Experience Sources: 2011 CCSSE data 23

2011 CCSSE Benchmark Scores by Learning Comm. – Promising Practice Item #4 59.1 59.4 58.6 56.8 54.6 49.0 49.3 Participated in Learning Community 50.0 49.3 48.7 Did not Participate in Learning Community Sources: 2011 CCSSE data 24

Impression of a first year learning community 25

2011 CCSSE Benchmark Scores by SSC – Promising Practice Item #5 57.8 56.1 54.9 55.9 53.9 48.9 48.5 Participated in Student Success Course 49.7 48.8 47.7 Did not Participate in Student Success Course Sources: 2011 CCSSE data 26

Student Success Courses 27

High Impact Practices: What comes next?

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 29

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