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,

CCCSE: Collecting Data from Many Perspectives 3

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. 4

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 6

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. (CCSSE, 2011)  Yet, 62% of faculty responders say that at least one student registered late for a class. (CCFSSE, 2011) 8

SENSE High Impact Practices

SENSE Promising Practice Items  Entering students and class attendance 10 Source: SENSE 2011

What students say about skipping class 11 See CCCSE video at

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 Orientation96%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% 13 Source: CCIS, CCSSE, CCFSSE 2011

Students are not always well-informed 14 See CCCSE video at

Supplemental Instruction 15 Students who use it19% Faculty who make it available44% Colleges that offer it87% New Trend?? - 14% of CCIS colleges report mandatory SI for all developmental education students Source: CCSSE, CCFSSE, CCIS 2011

A Student Speaks about SI 16 See CCCSE video at

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

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

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

Views of Orientation 20 See CCCSE video at

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

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

Impression of a first year learning community 23 See CCCSE video at

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

Student Success Courses 25 See CCCSE video at

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 27

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