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Basic Skills Summer Institute
August 2008
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BSI Success Rates
Do you know how many basic skills
students succeed in basic skills
classes?
 And why should we care?
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First Time Students
Basic Skills
Students
Non-Basic Skills
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BSI CCC Statistics
Performance Indicator
from the ARCC data
State Rate
Basic Skills Course
Completion
60.5%
ESL Course
Improvement
44.7
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Progression
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Each year between 500,000 and 700,000
students take a basic skills course.
How many move on?
2002-2003 to
2004-2005
Number of 126,307
Students
2003-2004 to
2005-2006
2004-2005 to
2006-2007
122,880
123,682
The number of students completing coursework at least one
level above their prior basic skills enrollment within the threeyear cohort period.
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Who Are Basic Skills Students?
 55%
female, 45 % male
 55% are citizens;18% are not
citizens (others unknown)
 45% are 21 or younger; 41% are
over 26
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Ethnicity
Ethnicity
% of Total
Headcount
% of Total
Enrollment in
Credit Basic
Skills & ESL
% of
Enrollment in
Non-credit
Basic Skills &
ESL
African American
7.49%
11.24%
6.23%
Asian/ Filipino/Pac
Islander
16.40%
17.00%
19.39%
Hispanic/Latino
28.79%
41.40%
43.72%
Native American
0.86%
0.92%
0.54%
White
35.40%
22.57%
18.69%
Total
100%
100%
100%
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How Many Are Enrolled in
Basic Skills Classes?
 70-85%
assess into basic skills
 27.4% take basic skills classes
 Where
are the rest?
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The Latina/o California Community College Pipeline, 2002-03
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Latina/o First Time
College Students
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University of
California
75
California
Community College
17
California State
University
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Transfer
1
University of California
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California State University
Source: California Postsecondary Education Commission 2004; see also Omelas and Solorzano 2004.
From Martha A. Rivas, Jeanette Perez, Chrystal R. Alvarez, and Daniel G. Solorzano, An
Examination of Latino/a Transfer Students in California’s Postsecondary Institutions, CSRC
Latino Policy and Issues Brief No. 16 (Los Angeles: UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center
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Press, 2007). Reproduced with permission.
BSI Knowledge Quiz
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Who Are You?
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How many came to last year’s BSI
training?
How many are on your BSI committee?
How many have read the Basic Skills as a
Foundation for Success in CCC’s Literature
Review?
How many teach a basic skills course?
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General Knowledge about
California Community Colleges,
Basic Skills Students, and Yourself
A note about answering these
questions:
 This is anonymous.
 Answer honestly. No one is looking.
 This is self-assessment.
 For each question, please select the
best answer.
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1. Approximately what percent of
California Community College students
place into one or more basic skills
courses in Reading, Writing, ESL or
Mathematics?
A. 0%
B. 25%
C. 35%
D. 50%
E. Over 70%
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100%
95%
non-basic skills
90%
basic skills
85%
80%
75%
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2. What percent of the students in
your class probably require
additional pre-collegiate training in
order to be successful in collegelevel course work?
A. 10%
B. 20%
C. 40%
D. 60%
E. Over 70%
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Need to think about this one
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3. The definition of Basic Skills is:
“Those foundational skills necessary
for students to succeed in college-level
work in
A. Reading
B. Writing
C. Math
D. English as a Second
Language (ESL)
E. Any of the disciplines above
as well as learning and study
skills
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4. How many students who start 3 or
more levels below college-level
actually make it to a college-level
course?
A. Less than 10%
B. 15- 30%
C. Approximately 40%
D. Over 60%
E. 80% or more
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How many succeed?
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5. What is the AVERAGE number of
hours our CCC students work per
week? (as reported by the CCCCO)
A. 8 hours/week
B. 16 hours per week
C. 24 hours per week
D. 28 hours per week
E. 32 hours per week
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6. Which of the following is true of
students with basic skills needs in
California community colleges?
A. They generally assess uniformly low on placement
tests in all areas; reading, writing, math, and ESL
B. They may assess low on placement tests in one discipline
while testing at college-level in other areas (i.e. a
college level writer but require additional work in math)
C. They are easily identifiable in our classes by sex,
age, or ethnicity.
D. They usually have the learning and study skills
necessary to succeed in college-level work.
E. They are found only in the community colleges and
are only rarely found at the UC and CSU campuses.
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7. Which of the following is true
about student success in basic
skills courses?
A. The success rate in basic skill classes is the
same as other college class success rates.
B. Ethnic diversity has no effect on student
success in basic skills.
C. There are obvious and very different success
patterns in basic skills courses according to
ethnicity.
D. Students that take basic skills classes always
do better in college level classes.
E. The majority of basic skills students complete
the entire basic skills class sequence.
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8. Latina/o students represent the fastest growing
population of community college students
(averaging 27% of CCC students statewide but up
to 85% at some individual colleges). Approximately
what percent of Latina/o students and parents were
unable to name even ONE source of financial aid
funding?
A. 5-15%
B. 15-30%
C. 30-45%
D. 45-50%
E. 50-65%
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Do you help direct students
to financial aid?
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9. What proportion of tenure track
and temporary faculty are in the
CCCs?
A. 75% tenure-track & 25% temporary
B. 60% tenure-track & 40% temporary
C. 50% tenure-track & 50% temporary
D. 40% tenure-track & 60% temporary
E. 25% tenure-track & 75% temport
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10. Of the total FTE (Full-time equivalent)
faculty in the CCCs, what proportion are
tenure track and what propportion are
temporary?
A. 45% tenure track FTE; 55% temporary FTE
B. 55% tenure track FTE; 45% temporary FTE
C. 60% tenure track FTE; 40% temporary FTE
D. 65% tenure track FTE; 35% temporary FTE
E. 75% tenure track FTE; 25% temporary FTE
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Tenure Track
Faculty Number
17,840
Temporary
Faculty Number
42,949
Tenure Track
Faculty FTE
19,723
Temporary
Faculty FTE
16,149
Total faculty in the CCC’s
60, 789
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11. What percent of basic skills
classes are taught by adjunct
faculty?
A. 25 - 40% of all basic skills classes
B. 35 – 50% of all basic skills classes
C. 45 – 60% of all basic skills classes
D. 55 – 70% of all basic skills classes
E. 90 - 100% of all basic skills classes
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Self-Assessment Questions
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Look in the handbook in Chapter 3 on
pages 4 & 5 and complete the selfassessment questions.
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Self-Assessment Rubric
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In Chapter 3 on pages 8-11 are rubrics of
practice based on 50 years of research.
Color coded as handouts
 Student Services practitioner
 Instructional Faculty
 Some may be both (like librarians or
counselors)
 Piloting Administrative rubric as
handout only now
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