1. Working with Student Success Data
Whatcom COMMUNITY COLLEGE
Professional Development workshop
Winter 2013
Ed Harri – Dean for Instruction
Anne Marie Karlberg, Ph.D. – Director of Assessment and Institutional Research Ed

2. Workshop Dates Monday, January 14, 2013 Monday, January 28, 2013
Monday, February 25, 2013
Monday, March 11, 2013
All workshops are from 3:00 – 4:30 in HNR 108 Ed

3. Why offer this workshop?
Support assessment of
teaching effectiveness
student learning
practices/requirements
Support accreditation process
Improve student preparation for workforce or transfer Ed

4. Assessment
Assessment is the systematic collection of information about student learning to inform decisions about how to improve learning and academic programs. WCC uses three types of information – direct indicators, indirect indicators, and institutional data – to assess student learning at the college, program, and course levels.
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5. Data Focus for the Workshop
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6. Data Focus for the Workshop
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7. Workshop Outcomes
Upon successful completion of the workshop, faculty will be able to…
Find existing college, program, and course level data on the AIR website.
Develop quality responses to the data and questions presented in the PIP/DIP process.
Use data to better know their students and develop informed teaching strategies.
Write a well-developed data request.
Analyze data resulting from course outcomes assessment process.
Provide leadership in discipline/department/program in interpreting and utilizing data.
Write well-developed, data-informed professional plans, which include benchmarks for success at the individual and discipline/program level.
Present data in a variety of formats that are readable and understandable.
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8. Session 1 Outcomes
By the end of the first session, faculty will be able to…
Find existing college, program, and course level data on the AIR website.
Develop quality responses to the data and questions presented in the PIP/DIP process.
Use data to better know their students and develop informed teaching strategies.
Write a well-developed data request. Ed

9. Data to look at in this workshop
course completion data
progression data
gateway courses
gateway courses based on placement level
disaggregated course completion data
grade distribution data
graduation and retention data
course outcomes-oriented rubric data
assignment-oriented rubric data
instructor or discipline collected data Ed

10. Session 1 Activity Existing Institutional Data
Break into groups.
Answer the questions on the handout
PIP/DIP
course completion rates
grade distribution
graduation and retention
Achieving the Dream data
disaggregated course completion rates
math and English progression – session 2
gateway courses – session 2
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11. Instructor-Gathered Data
test scores
rubric data
pre- and post-tests
student surveys
assignment scores
measures of student behaviors
Key point: Data protocols must be followed Ed

12. Data Protocols student identification faculty identification
interpretation of data
presenting and reporting
small n’s
Both

13. Homework Assignment #1
Course completion rates and grade distribution data
Disaggregated course completion rates
Retention and graduation rates
Data question? Ed