1. November 13, 2013 Contra Costa Community College District Board Review Achievement Gap Report & College Scorecards

2. District Strategic Plan Goal #1: Student Learning & Success Significantly improve the success of our diverse student body in pursuit of their educational and career goals with special emphasis on closing the student achievement gap.

3. District Strategic Plan Goal #1 Objectives 1.1 Increase the percentage of students who transfer to a variety of four-year institutions while narrowing the transfer gap across subgroups. 1.2 Increase the percentage of students who receive relevant and timely training for the workplace while narrowing the achievement gap across subgroups. 1.3 Increase the number of degrees by 50% and the number of certificates by 100% by 2015. 1.4 Increase the percentage of Limited English Proficient students who become proficient in the English language. 1.5 Increase the percentage of students who are proficient in Basic Skills while narrowing the proficiency gap across subgroups.

4. Achievement Gap Report Note that the Achievement Gap Report wasn’t designed explicitly to track each of our strategic goals. It does however provide a window through which we can gauge our progress in closing the achievement gap.

5. Achievement Gap Table Let’s walk through a quick illustration of what these symbols represent ….

6. 55% 60% 65% 70% 75% 80% 85% 90% 95% 100% Base Year Current Year 50% Overall Average 70% Overall Average 77% Success by Cohort (Base year & Current year) An illustration (not actual data) +7% Gap Exists Overall Improvement Parity

7. 55% 60% 65% 70% 75% 80% 85% 90% 95% 100% Base Year Current Year 50% Average 70% Average 70% Success by Cohort An illustration (not actual data) -9% -4% -3% 0% +5% +7% Gap Exists – Some Improvement No Overall Improvement

8. 55% 60% 65% 70% 75% 80% 85% 90% 95% 100% Base Year Current Year 50% Average 70% Average 82% Success by Cohort An illustration (not actual data) +6% +5% +7% +21% +16% +24% Gap Exists – Some Improvement Overall Improvement Improvement - Closed Gap

9. Goal #1 Objectives 1.1 Increase the percentage of students who transfer to a variety of four- year institutions while narrowing the transfer gap across subgroups.

10. Goal #1 Objectives 1.2 Increase the percentage of students who receive relevant and timely training for the workplace while narrowing the achievement gap across subgroups. CTE Completion overall percentages 2008/09 = 55% 2011/12 = 53% (page 4)

11. Goal #1 Objectives 1.3 Increase the number of degrees by 50% and the number of certificates by 100% by 2015. Let’s look at our progress to date …

12. Goal #1 Objectives 1.3 Increase the number of degrees by 50% (from 1,496 to 2,244) and the number of certificates by 100% (from 992 to 1,984) by 2015. DegreesCertificates 81% At the half way point, how close are we to hitting our goal? 86%

13. Goal #1 Objectives 1.4 Increase the percentage of Limited English Proficient students who become proficient in the English language. ESL Progress overall percentages 2008/09 = 13% 2011/12 = 20% (page 5)

14. Goal #1 Objectives 1.5 Increase the percentage of students who are proficient in Basic Skills while narrowing the proficiency gap across subgroups. Basic Skills Progress overall percentages 2008/09 = 14% 2011/12 = 24% Math 2008/09 = 29% 2011/12 = 31% English (pages 4 &5)

15. Achievement Gap Report Any questions?

16. College Scorecards State Chancellor’s Office Student Success Scorecards Education Code, Section 84754.5(d) Each community college district board of trustees shall review the Scorecard annually. The District will have one year from the release of the Scorecard report to submit the board minutes to the Chancellor’s Office as part of a regularly scheduled and noticed public meeting.

17. Transitional Year This year the data in our Achievement Gap report and the State’s Scorecard do not match perfectly. Next year our Achievement Gap report will be using data from the Scorecard

18. College Scorecards Four broad domains One outcome measure Three intermediate progress indicators Two cohort tracks Prepared Unprepared Three cohort groups Gender Age Group Ethnicity

19. When reviewing Scorecard data 2. Know your denominator 3. Know the base year for the cohort 4. Don’t compare colleges; look at trends for a single college over time 1. Read the definitions carefully

20. Persistence 30 Units Completion Basic Skills Remediation CTE Completion Contra Costa Community College District State Average English Math ESL 58.9%65.8% 67.4% 66.4% 54.7% 49.2% 31.0% 38.1% 23.7% 25.9% 19.5% 23.6% 53.3% 55.0%

21. CCCCD District Colleges State Community College Average Five Year Trend in Overall Completion Rates

22. Three College Scorecards

23. College Scorecards Comments

24. Contra Costa Community College District THANK YOU