© 2011 Center for Community College Student Engagement Wyoming Community Colleges Statewide Workshop October 29, 2013

© 2011 Center for Community College Student Engagement Jeff Crumpley Associate Director, Operations Center for Community College Student Engagement Introductions

© 2011 Center for Community College Student Engagement Agenda  Student Engagement and Success: What We Know Matters  Engagement at Wyoming colleges  Looking at Your Data from Your College  Promising Practices to High Impact Practices  Using Your Own Promising Practice Results  Looking at CCSSE Data Over Time  Cohort tracking and student identifiers  Questions, Answers, and Wrap up.

© 2011 Center for Community College Student Engagement Why are we here today? The Student Success Center provides lots of services to encourage academic excellence Student Success is our Top Priority Increase Student Access, Transfer, and Success

© 2011 Center for Community College Student Engagement Student Voices Video

© 2011 Center for Community College Student Engagement Who is in the room today? Have you ever seen CCSSE results? Have you ever logged into the online reporting system? Have you generated custom breakout reports? Have you formed a workgroup, discussed CCSSE and other data, and used that data to inform decisions to change something on your campus based on that work?

© 2011 Center for Community College Student Engagement Predictions and Hopes Exercise Item 4a. How often do you believe students in Wyoming reported asking questions during class or contributing to the class discussion during the year according to CCSSE 2013? Percent who reported often or very often? Other responses are sometimes and never. How would you like to see your students responding to this item.

© 2011 Center for Community College Student Engagement Predictions and Hopes Exercise Item 4b. How often do you believe students in Wyoming reported making a class presentation during the year according to CCSSE 2013? Percent who reported often or very often? Other responses are sometimes and never. How would you like to see your students responding to this item?

© 2011 Center for Community College Student Engagement Predictions and Hopes Exercise Item 4c. How often do you believe students in Wyoming reported preparing two or more drafts of a paper or assignment before turning it in during the year according to CCSSE 2013? Percent who reported often or very often? Other responses are sometimes and never. How would you like to see your students responding to this item?

© 2011 Center for Community College Student Engagement Defining Student Engagement

© 2011 Center for Community College Student Engagement Center for Community College Student Engagement CCSSE (& CCFSSE) SENSE and now CCIS Established surveys: High-Impact Practices Initiative on Men of Color CCIS Initiative on Student Success SSBTN Latino transfer Institute Other projects: Assess the quality of their work Identify and grow successful educational practices Identify areas in which to improve Provide context: a data-derived picture of institution Shift the focus to institutional locus of control CCSSE and SENSE are tools designed to help colleges:

© 2011 Center for Community College Student Engagement What is Student Engagement? …the amount of time and energy students invest in meaningful educational practices …the institutional practices and student behaviors that are highly correlated with student learning and retention

© 2011 Center for Community College Student Engagement One thing we KNOW about community college student engagement… It’s unlikely to happen by accident. It has to happen by design.

© 2011 Center for Community College Student Engagement What is the relationship between student engagement and student success? How do we know this?

© 2011 Center for Community College Student Engagement Wyoming Results

© 2011 Center for Community College Student Engagement Benchmarking for Excellence The most important comparison: where you are now, compared with where you want to be. Other comparisons and ways to identify effective practices: Within your own college Across your consortium Looking at other colleges most like you Comparing to the national cohort

© 2011 Center for Community College Student Engagement CCSSE Benchmarks of Effective Educational Practice Groups of conceptually-related items Standardized to a national mean of 50 Address key areas of student engagement Provide a way for colleges to compare their own performance with other groups of colleges and across student groups

© 2011 Center for Community College Student Engagement CCSSE Benchmarks Active and Collaborative Learning Student Effort Academic Challenge Student Faculty Interaction Support for Learners

© 2011 Center for Community College Student Engagement CCSSE Benchmark Scores for the Wyoming Consortium 50 Source: 2013 CCSSE data

© 2011 Center for Community College Student Engagement Disaggregating Benchmark Data Wyoming: Enrollment Status (P/T vs. F/T) P/T F/T Active and Collaborative Learning Student Effort Academic Challenge Student-Faculty Interaction Support for Learners Source: 2013 CCSSE data

© 2011 Center for Community College Student Engagement What about never? Perhaps we are not always convinced that students mean exactly the same thing when they say often or very often, but…how do we explain never?  P/T students who report “never” making a class presentation: 41.9%  (F/T : 16.5%)  P/T students who report “never” working with other students outside of class to prepare class assignments: 50.0%  (F/T : 22.5%) Source: 2013 CCSSE data

© 2011 Center for Community College Student Engagement Disaggregating Benchmark Data Wyoming: Developmental Status Dev Non-Dev Active and Collaborative Learning Student Effort Academic Challenge Student-Faculty Interaction Support for Learners Source: 2013 CCSSE data

© 2011 Center for Community College Student Engagement Disaggregating Benchmark Data Wyoming: Credit Hours Earned Active and Collaborative Learning Student Effort Academic Challenge Student-Faculty Interaction Support for Learners Source: 2013 CCSSE data

© 2011 Center for Community College Student Engagement High expectations matter …clearly communicated …regularly assessed …frequently discussed What Matters Most

© 2011 Center for Community College Student Engagement How often have you worked harder than you thought you could to meet an instructor’s standards or expectations? Item #4p Wyoming NeverSometimes Often/Very Often 11% 35%54% Source: 2013 CCSSE data

© 2011 Center for Community College Student Engagement Registration During the current term at this college, I completed registration before the first class session(s). (Promising Practices, Item #1) Source: 2013 CCSSE data

© 2011 Center for Community College Student Engagement Expectations may not be as high as they need to be… How often have you come to class without completing readings or assignments? Item #4e Wyoming NeverSometimes Often/Very Often 35%51%14% Source: 2012 CCSSE data

© 2011 Center for Community College Student Engagement What Matters Most High support matters …easily accessed …relevant to students …brought to scale

© 2011 Center for Community College Student Engagement Student’s View of Importance and Use of Student Services Wyoming Very/ Somewhat Peer or other tutoring70% Skill labs (writing, math, etc.)72% Sometimes /Often Peer or other tutoring25% Skill labs (writing, math, etc.)36% How important are the following services? How often do you use the following services? Source: 2013 CCSSE data

© 2011 Center for Community College Student Engagement What Matters Most In focus groups with students, what do they typically report as the most important factor in keeping them in school and persisting toward their goals? Relationships Connections matter

© 2011 Center for Community College Student Engagement Making Connections Providing the support you need to help you succeed in college Wyoming Source: 2013 CCSSE data

© 2011 Center for Community College Student Engagement Worked with classmates outside of class to prepare class assignments Looking inside the Benchmarks: Active and Collaborative Learning Wyoming Source: 2013 CCSSE data

© 2011 Center for Community College Student Engagement Discussed ideas from your readings or classes with others outside of class Looking inside the Benchmarks: Active and Collaborative Learning Wyoming Source: 2013 CCSSE data

© 2011 Center for Community College Student Engagement What Matters Most Inescapable engagement …inside the classroom …outside the classroom …when and where students are

© 2011 Center for Community College Student Engagement Looking inside the Benchmarks: Active & Collaborative Learning Wyoming students who… Source: 2013 CCSSE data

© 2011 Center for Community College Student Engagement How can we make engagement inescapable? What are you doing in your colleges right now? Is that list easy to create? Is it the way things are done at your college?

© 2011 Center for Community College Student Engagement What Matters Most Culture of evidence… …understand the facts …share the facts …act on the facts

© 2011 Center for Community College Student Engagement What Matters Most Culture of evidence… Resist the average… Reach for excellence!

© 2011 Center for Community College Student Engagement Working with your college data

© 2011 Center for Community College Student Engagement What sort of data are we talking about here? Benchmarks – standardized scores on high level concepts to get you into the results. Means – place responses on a scale to allow comparison. Frequencies – give you details about the actual responses/behaviors

© 2011 Center for Community College Student Engagement A quick look at the CCSSE web site. Main Survey CCFSSE High Impact Practices

© 2011 Center for Community College Student Engagement Look at benchmark reports and/or do a breakout analysis on the custom report page.

© 2011 Center for Community College Student Engagement High Impact Practices

© 2011 Center for Community College Student Engagement CCCSE Special Study on High Impact Practices What is it?  Online Institutional Survey (Free)  Special-focus items on CCSSE  New items on CCFSSE  Special-focus module on SENSE  Lots of data  Funded by Gates and Lumina

© 2011 Center for Community College Student Engagement High Impact Report #2 61% of colleges responding to CCIS said that they implement a FYE program

© 2011 Center for Community College Student Engagement High Impact Report #2 18% of full-time faculty responding to CCFSSE said that they teach or facilitate a FYE program

© 2011 Center for Community College Student Engagement High Impact Report #2 25% of CCSSE 2012 students said that participated in a FYE program

© 2011 Center for Community College Student Engagement High Impact Report #2 Report release date 10/17/13

© 2011 Center for Community College Student Engagement Wyoming High Impact Practices

© 2011 Center for Community College Student Engagement Orientation The ONE response that best describes my experience with orientation when I first came to this college is... (Promising Practices, Item #2) Source: 2013 CCSSE data

© 2011 Center for Community College Student Engagement  What is happening in Wyoming for Orientation?

© 2011 Center for Community College Student Engagement First-Year Experience I participated in a structured experience for new students... (Promising Practices, Item #3) Source: 2013 CCSSE data

© 2011 Center for Community College Student Engagement  What is happening in Wyoming for FYE?

© 2011 Center for Community College Student Engagement Learning Community I enrolled in an organized learning community... (Promising Practices, Item #4) Source: 2013 CCSSE data

© 2011 Center for Community College Student Engagement  What is happening in Wyoming for LC?

© 2011 Center for Community College Student Engagement Student Success Course I enrolled in a student success course (such as a student development, extended orientation, study skills, student life skills, or college success course). (Promising Practices, Item #5) Source: 2013 CCSSE data

© 2011 Center for Community College Student Engagement  What is happening in Wyoming for SSC?

© 2011 Center for Community College Student Engagement Do these promising practices make a difference?

© 2011 Center for Community College Student Engagement 2013 Wyoming Benchmark Scores by Orientation Source: 2013 CCSSE data

© 2011 Center for Community College Student Engagement 2013 Wyoming Benchmark Scores by First- Year Experience Source: 2013 CCSSE data

© 2011 Center for Community College Student Engagement 2013 Wyoming Benchmark Scores by Learning Community Source: 2013 CCSSE data

© 2011 Center for Community College Student Engagement 2013 Wyoming Benchmark Scores by Student Success Course Source: 2013 CCSSE data

© 2011 Center for Community College Student Engagement Activity Directions  STEP ONE: Look at your student participation in promising/high impact practices.  STEP TWO: Which students are participating in them.  STEP THREE: How do go about exploring the effect of promising/high impact practices on your campus.  STEP FOUR: Describe how you share results on your campus.

© 2011 Center for Community College Student Engagement CCSSE data over time Key Points Standard Benchmarks not designed to do this. See link. Raw Benchmark Score can, but often hide things that are important. Only available from last few years of CCSSE data. Item level analysis the best solution. Even item level can mask difference based on student characteristics.

© 2011 Center for Community College Student Engagement Active and Collaborative Learning Active and Collaborative Learning Students learn more when they are actively involved in their education and have opportunities to think about and apply what they are learning in different settings. Through collaborating with others to solve problems or master challenging content, students develop valuable skills that prepare them to deal with the kinds of situations and problems they will encounter in the workplace, the community, and their personal lives. The following seven survey items contribute to this benchmark. During the current school year, how often have you: Asked questions in class or contributed to class discussions (4a) Made a class presentation (4b) Worked with other students on projects during class (4f) Worked with classmates outside of class to prepare class assignments (4g) Tutored or taught other students (paid or voluntary) (4h) Participated in a community-based project as a part of a regular course (4i) Discussed ideas from your readings or classes with others outside of class (students, family members, co-workers, etc.) (4r)

© 2011 Center for Community College Student Engagement Active and Collaborative Learning

© 2011 Center for Community College Student Engagement Worked with classmates outside of class to prepare class assignments Students who responded “often” or “very often” 2007 – 23.7% 2009 – 23.5% 2011 – 25.9% %

© 2011 Center for Community College Student Engagement Worked with classmates outside of class to prepare class assignments Students who responded “never” 2007 – 40.2% 2009 – 39.1% 2011 – 35.8% 2013 – 38.5%

© 2011 Center for Community College Student Engagement Cohort Tracking, Student Identifiers, and CCSSE Who is collecting and using student identifiers in Wyoming? Ways to enhance that collection??

© 2011 Center for Community College Student Engagement Cohort Tracking, Student Identifiers, and CCSSE Tracking Cohorts Students in FYE vs those not in FYE Developmental students receiving tutoring vs those who don’t.

© 2011 Center for Community College Student Engagement Every program, every service, every academic policy, every college is perfectly designed to achieve the exact outcome it currently produces.

© 2011 Center for Community College Student Engagement If nothing changes, nothing changes.

© 2011 Center for Community College Student Engagement Q and A Thanks for joining us!