Transcript Big Idea #1

BIG IDEA #1
Transforming
Developmental
Education
TODAY
The charge for transforming developmental
education
 National and state data
 Innovations in dev ed delivery in the nation and
in the state
 The recommendations, awaiting feedback from
faculty and final approval from the academic
officers and presidents, on how the NJCCs can
innovate and recreate
 Presidents’ response and Q&A
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SEPT. 2011: CHARGE TO ACADEMIC
OFFICERS FOR BI#1
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Common framework of levels of remedial need
Retesting policies for each college
Developmental education success rates (Student
Success Model) and goals for improvement in the
success rate of students in developmental English and
math
Current practices that have demonstrated higher
success rate of students in developmental English and
math.
Statewide meeting for English faculty, statewide
meeting for math faculty to share these practices.
Summer institute to provide opportunities for in-depth
work by developmental educators statewide.
Statewide meeting for ESL faculty to determine best
practices in ESL, including workforce preparation as well
as preparation for further academic study.
Common definition of ability to benefit from
developmental education programs.
ALL REQUIRE DATA, DISCUSSION, DECISIONS
AT STATE AND INSTITUTIONAL LEVELS
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Student Success Model
Data on current initiatives
Impact
 Scalability
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Parameters of what’s possible
PHASE ONE, PART ONE
DRAFT Report on national and state
initiatives in English and math, with key
principles and recommendations for further
action—
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Distributed next week
Academic officers’ and presidents’ approval in May
DRAFT Report on national and state
initiatives in ESL, with key principles and
recommendations for further action
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Distributed last week to ESL faculty
Academic officers’ and presidents’ approval in
June
PHASE ONE, PART TWO
WORKING INSTITUTE FOR DEV ED AND ESL
November 9-10 at Mercer County CC
 National speakers
 NJCC faculty and staff: Pilots and Programs
with Positive Potential
 College work groups
 Working sessions for three tracks:
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English
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Math
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ESL
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KEY PRINCIPLES
The Academic Officers at the nineteen community colleges in
New Jersey:
 agree that every initiative must start with the student;
 commit to using a data-driven process, using, as one measure of
common effort, the information provided in the Student Success
Model;
 agree that all initiatives related to transforming developmental
education should be carefully measured for student outcomes and
the results widely shared;
 recognize that each institution has the right to offer curricula and
support programs that meet the unique needs of its student body
and agree that there is no mandatory model for the state;
 commit to institution-specific efforts to improve support programs
and pedagogy related to developmental education;
 embrace the notion of collaborating across the sector and defining
common outcomes;
 commit to scalability;
 value a process of inclusion.
WHY?
THE NATIONAL PICTURE
4 million community college students enroll in
some form of developmental coursework each
year
 Less than 40% of them will complete the required
developmental education sequence
 Only about 15% will enroll in college-level
gatekeeper courses
 Completion rates for
these students are
in single digits
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COMPLETE COLLEGE AMERICA: HE’S
BRIDGE TO NOWHERE
Just released—available online
 Self-reported information from 33 states
 Highlights:
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4/10 remedial students in community colleges never
complete their remedial courses
 Not even a quarter of remedial community college
students ultimately complete college-level English
and math courses
 Graduation rates for these students are “deplorable”:
fewer than 1/10 graduate within 150% of time
 Graduation rates for students enrolling in dev ed
range from 2.7% in Louisiana to 23.2% in Nevada
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THE NEW JERSEY PICTURE
Of the 15 colleges where the data are clear on the
New Jersey Commission on Higher Education
Public College & University 2008 Institutional
Profiles site, 66.4% of the 2007 cohort (included
FTFT only) tested into at least one area of
developmental education.
 Placement of FTFT students into developmental
courses ranged from 52% in one county to 88.9%
in another.
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THE NEW JERSEY PICTURE, PART 2
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Early iteration of the Student Success Model
2002 cohort, 6 year-study—29,436 students
 First-time, degree-seeking freshman (both FT and
PT)
 Data on students enrolled in developmental
education courses not disaggregated
 47.2% of cohort achieved at least one success outcome
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Earned a degree or certificate
 Transferred without an award
 Earned 30 degree credits with
GPA of 2.0 or higher
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53% of cohort did not achieve even one of the
success outcomes
 4,836 never accumulated one degree credit
(16.4% of total cohort)
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Future iterations of success model will track
developmental education placement and
progression. This iteration did not.
 There is no reason to believe New Jersey is much
different from the rest of the country in serving
dev ed students
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TRADITIONAL
PARADIGM
multiple
levels
of
remediation
over
multiple
semesters
THE NATIONAL PICTURE: VIRGINIA
PRECOLLEGE MATH PATHWAYS BY
PROGRAMS OF STUDY
Placement and
Diagnostic Tests
STEM &
Business
Administration
Pre-college units
1-5
Liberal Arts
Pre-college
Units 1-5
Career
Technical
Education
CurriculumSpecific
Precollege Units
Precollege Units
6-9
CurriculumSpecific
Credit
Courses
THE NATIONAL PICTURE: CALIFORNIA’S STATESUPPORTED ACCELERATION PROJECT
3 Key strategies in state-supported effort to hasten
remediation:
 a) acceleration
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b) contextualization
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Eliminate exit points, use academically challenging
tasks, have high expectations, and provide academic
practice and support);
Employ instructional techniques that connect skills
to other contexts; skills>content>skills; support in
texts of the discipline; and
c) in-class support
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immediate and relevant; addresses student’s life
circumstances and affective needs
THE NATIONAL PICTURE: MARYLAND,
TENNESSEE, CONNECTICUT, WASHINGTON
Maryland: CCBC—acceleration in English and
math
 Tennessee: Math Emporium
 Connecticut: Eliminate dev ed courses and add
support structures in college-level courses
 Washington: I-BEST
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Integrated Basic Education Skills and Training
(Contextualized) for basic skills and ESL students
THE NATIONAL PICTURE
Before college enrollment, the goal should be
developmental education avoidance.
 As students enroll, there is a need to improve
assessment and placement.
 For students placed into developmental
education, there is a need to accelerate,
contextualize, improve pedagogy, and provide
support structures that will ensure success.
~Katherine Hughes
Researcher, CCRC
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“Research shows that students who
skip their remedial assignments do
just as well in gateway courses as
those who took remediation first.”
~Complete College America
Remediation: Higher Education’s Bridge
to Nowhere
DEV ED REFORM STRATEGIES
IMPLEMENTED & UNDER REVIEW BY
NJCCS
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Testing/Placement/Prep
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Supplemental Instruction
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Classroom Instruction/Curriculum
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Student Advising
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Student Success Course
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Learning Communities
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Professional Development
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Assessment
RECOMMENDATIONS
14 recommendations to help guide county
colleges as they design a developmental
education model that meets the unique needs of
their students.
 The key requirements:
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start with the student & think creatively & keep data
DETERMINATION AND AFFIRMATION OF
COLLEGE READINESS
1.1 Work with feeder school districts to diagnose
and improve college readiness, especially in math
 1.2 Reevaluate placement and testing policies
 1.3 Offer intensive summer bridge programs,
with the possibility of advancing out of
developmental placement
 1.4 Require orientation for both full- and parttime students
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EDUCATIONAL SEQUENCING, INSTRUCTIONAL
STRATEGIES AND SUPPORT STRUCTURES
2.1 Align SLOs for seamless transition between
sequenced courses
 2.2 Offer options/alternative strategies to
remediate, based on student skills and goals, and
closely assess the success of those options
 2.3 Offer appropriate support services
 2.4 Offer support structures, programs and
schedules for a diverse student body
 2.5 Offer appropriate and ongoing professional
development for faculty
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POLICY REVIEW AND DATA TRACKING
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3.1 Review policies regarding placement and student schedules
3.2 Review the percentage of developmental courses taught by
part-time faculty members, and the preparation of these faculty
members to teach those courses
3.3 Use the Student Success Model to track the progress of
entering students in developmental education, collect data about
the percentage of students who successfully complete these
courses and sequences as well as college-level gateway courses,
and widely share and discuss this data
3.4 Track the progress of students in alternative–strategy
developmental courses and the success of these strategies as
students move to completion
3.5 Work sector-wide to develop a comprehensive strategy for
addressing basic skills education in NJ that results in a system
that provides all adults with the access to basic skills courses in
math and English, not designed for college entrance standards. In
addition, the state should develop a comparable strategy for
addressing the needs of adults for courses in English as a Second
Language (ESL).
NEXT STEPS
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Distribution of English and math, and ESL
recommendations to faculty for feedback/discussion
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Approval of English and math recommendations by
Academic Officers & CC Presidents
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June
Sector-wide working institute
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May
Approval of ESL recommendations by Academic
Officers & Presidents
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April
November 9-10
Follow-up collection of data/research
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Retesting policies
Placement criteria and outcomes of dev ed courses
Pilot data with Student Success Model
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