Transcript CB21-ARCC-CDCP: Showing Success Marcy Alancraig, Cabrillo

CB21-ARCC-CDCP: Showing Success
Marcy Alancraig, Cabrillo College
Janet Fulks, ASCCC
Asking Relevant Questions
• Consider the “Stimulus Package” and the
tarp bailout funds. Should the people
receiving the money be required to
account for how they spend it?
• If you went back to college to work on
another degree and spent $10-15,000 per
year, what expectations would you have
for that investment?
The Puzzle of Accountability
• This is accountability.
• BUT just reporting numbers is only
part of the puzzle
– Numbers may measure what you
want – or may not
– Numbers without context are
misleading
– Numbers don’t correct problems
Why Does Accountability
Matter?
Why Does Accountability
Matter?
• What comes to mind when you hear
accountability in education?
• What comes to mind when you hear
“accountability in non-credit”?
What Happens When
Accountability Goes Wrong?
No Child Left Behind
• Based on Faculty performance of
objectives
• Detailed and non productive
• Focuses on content
• Limits reporting to statistical data
• No dialogue
• No direction for interventions
No Child Left Behind is
Unhealthy Accountability
• Should be based on higher level
outcomes
• Should help improve practice
• Should be based on authentic
student proficiencies
• Should indicate potential
interventions and improvement
Healthy and Responsible
Accountability
So How Does Healthy
Accountability Work?
• Define what student should be able to do
• Identify a way to assess it
• Collect the accurate and relevant data
based on your assessment
• Analyze and discuss the data
• Change what you do because of the
results
• You have always done this!!!
In Credit Education How Have
We Defined Accountability?
Previously
• Credit attached to units
• Grades
• Degrees, certificates
Now – What are students able to do?
• Student learning outcomes
Student Success
• Turn to the person next to you and share
about a successful student you had.
• How did you know the student was
successful?
• How did the student show you that he or
she was successful?
• How did the student know she or he was
successful?
Accountability Metrics in
Noncredit
• Three annual accountability reports
1. Focus on Results: Accountability Reporting for
the California Community Colleges (ARCC)
2. Career Development and College Preparation
in the State: Supplement to the ARCC Report
3. Basic Skills Accountability Framework
• “report cards” on a variety of measures
Why Noncredit Accountability?
• Three significant bills passed in
California Legislature
Where there is money – there must
be accountability!
This is credit and noncredit too!
Enhanced Noncredit Funding
• Noncredit gets funded less per FTES
than credit
• SB 361 increased noncredit funding
from $2,626 per FTES to $3,092 per
FTES
• Applies to students enrolled in a
sequence of courses leading to
career development or college
preparation (CDCP certificates)
Focus on Results: ARCC
Report
• System- wide statistics
• College-level statistics
• 1 noncredit performance
indicator – CDCP Progress and
Achievement Rate
Statewide Indicators
Sample College Level Indicators
CDCP Progress and
Achievement Rate Specific to
Noncredit
• Cohort
– Students taking courses for the first time
at any CCC
– Did not enroll in any credit courses
during the first term they enrolled in
CDCP
– Must have completed 8 or more positive
attendance hours in CDCP courses
within their 1st two terms of attendance
– Only System-level data
CDCP Progress and
Achievement Rate
• Performance indicators – achieved any of the
following within 3 years of entry
– Completed at least 1 degree-applicable credit
course
– Earned a CDCP certificate
– Achieved “transfer-directed” status
– Achieved “transfer-prepared” status
– Earned an AA, AS, and/or credit certificate
– Transferred to a 4-year institution
Persistence Indicators
What Would Healthy
Accountability Look Like In
Noncredit?
• Think back to the student you discussed
earlier.
• What would indicate success?
• What would you need to know to improve
your teaching and contribute to that
student success?