TITLE III Resources Resources and links that can be used to assist members of the CR Community strengthen decision-making through the use of data and research are provided below. Contact the Title III office for copies of any of these articles if you encounter difficulty retrieving them from the links provided. The Institute for the Study of Knowledge Management in Education (ISKME) is an independent, nonprofit educational research think tank that conducts social science research, develops research-based tools and resources, and facilitates community-building with the goal of helping educational institutions increase capacity to collect and share information, apply it to well-defined problems, and support inquiry and continuous improvement directed toward student success and organizational learning. The ISKME website is located at www.iskme.org, and the following articles are recommended reading: The League for Innovation in the Community College. Since 1968, the League has been making a difference in community college education and in the lives of millions of educators and students. The League is an international organization dedicated to catalyzing the community college movement and is specifically committed to improving community colleges through innovation, experimentation, and institutional transformation. The League website is located at www.league.org. The League website includes leadership abstracts, learning abstracts, white papers, and a League Store listing a number of books and articles available for purchase. One article of note is An Assessment Framework for the Community College -- Measuring Student Learning and Achievement as a Means of Demonstrating Institutional Effectiveness. The Center for Student Success (CSS) was established by the Research and Planning Group for California Community Colleges. The goals are: To enable researchers, practitioners, and policy-makers to identify educational strategies and exemplary practices that promote the success of California community college students; and To provide California community colleges with professional research and evaluation expertise to support the adoption of strategies and practices applicable to real time situations at the college level.
This website provides access to CSS's findings in six knowledge areas: - Student Success: From basic skills to transfer – tools and strategies to improve student success
- Diversity: From internships to curriculum integration -- case studies from colleges around the state
- Planning: From program to Education Master Planning – tools and strategies on planning
- Evaluation: From curriculum to program evaluation – tools and strategies on evaluation
- Learning Assessment: From basic skills to student development -- tools and strategies on how to assess student learning
- Health Occupations: Best practices for recruiting and retaining students -- increasing diversity in programs -- prerequisite studies, fundraising tools
The case studies available at the Center for Student Success are located at http://css.rpgroup.org/index.php and can be searched by knowledge area, category, and key word. The California Assessment Institute was formed to promote the practice of assessment in higher education in general, and in the California Community Colleges in particular. It is intended to provide quick access to a wide variety of principles, resources, materials, tools, organizations, and points of contacts dealing with assessment in higher education. A wealth of resources are available at the California Assessment Institute website at http://cai.cc.ca.us/Resources/index.htm.
Miscellaneous Articles and Resources of Interest The Lumina Foundation for Education Research Report entitled, "Data Don't Drive: Building a Practitioner-Driven Culture of Inquiry to Assess Community College Performance." http://www.luminafoundation.org/publications/datadontdrive2005.pdf Student Success "Basic Skills as a Foundation for Student Success in California Community Colleges". Prepared by a team of researchers, faculty, and administrators at the Center for Student Success and the California Community College Research and Planning Group. Part I is a review of literature and effective practices for Basic Skills. Part II presents an assessment tool for analyzing the effectiveness of basic skills practices. Part III is an excel model tool for estimating costs and downstream revenue associated with basic skills practices. The complete report can be found at http://css.rpgroup.org/uploads/RPBasicSkills2007.pdf A brief review of the literature and effective practices presented can be found at http://css.rpgroup.org/uploads/CIO_Summary_Handout.pdf "Do Student Success Courses Actually Help Community College Students Succeed?" http://ccrc.tc.columbia.edu/Publication.asp?UID=531 (click on 'view PDF version' button for entire article) Marketing and Enrollment "White Paper: Connecting Enrollment and Fiscal Management". Article in UniversityBusiness. The Noel-Levitz enrollment consulting firm publishes helpful research and articles on its website at https://www.noellevitz.com/Papers+and+Research. Links to two Noel-Levitz articles are provided below. "How to use pertinent decision data in your admissions office to enroll the students you want". "Driving Enrollment Through Research-Based Marketing; 5 Marketing Success Stories."
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