Transcript Focus on Learning Title III Bill Klinger Project Director Who Are Our Students?  30% of all high school students drop out  40% go.

Focus on Learning
Title III
Bill Klinger
Project Director
Who Are Our Students?
 30% of all high school students drop out
 40% go to college
– Only 20% of these take college preparatory
courses in high school
 78% of RVCC students coming from high
school enroll in one or more developmental
course
Our Title III Goals
1. Developing a student intake and tracking
process
2. Strengthening developmental education
and academic support systems
3. Strengthening faculty/staff development
Focus on Learning
2005 – 2006
Year 2 Projects
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Academic Support Center
Developmental Curriculum Revision
Student Assessment and Placement
Orientation Programs
Faculty Development
$343,000 in Expenditures
Academic Support Center
Goal: Improve quality and level of student support
 28 tutors certified in
reading and credit
courses
 Number of students
increased 11% to 1963
 Number of tutors
increased 16% to 35
Measurable Success
Retention rates:
85% for students using tutoring services
58% for those who do not
Developmental Curriculum Revision
- English Goal: Improve developmental English instruction
 Developed new courses which:
– Integrate developmental reading & writing
– Provide reading & writing support for English I
– Introduce computer lab work
 Have run pilots for three semesters
 Measurable success
– 96 students in pilot courses
– Pilot pass rate
82.6%
– Non-pilot pass rate 75.2%
Developmental Curriculum Revision
- Math Goal: Improve developmental math instruction
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Incorporated study skills into developmental courses
Integrated MyMathLab into developmental courses
‘Piloted’ courses in fall 2006
Measurable success
– 69 students
– Arithmetic Mod I
 73.0% pass rate for those in pilot
 61.6% pass rate for those not in pilot
– Algebra Mod I
 40.6% pass rate for those in pilot
 68.2% pass rate for those not in pilot
Developmental Curriculum Revision
- ESL Goal: Improve ESL instruction
 Re-wrote curriculum for fall 2006
– Designed for consistent levels of proficiency
– Introduction to ESL – 2 courses
– 5 Levels of Reading and Writing
– 5 levels of Grammar
– 5 levels of Speaking and Listening
 Introduced in fall of 2006
Student Assessment and
Placement
Goal: Improve placement of ESL students
 Created ESL placement questionnaire
 Evaluated writing samples
 Measurable success
– 782 students assessed 1/06 – 9/06
– 48% increase over prior year
– 117 students placed differently than placement
scores alone would have indicated
– Result – more students taking courses at
appropriate levels
Orientation Programs and Courses
Goal: Improve student success rates
 Created new ESL orientation program in fall 2006
 Created College Experience course
– Recommended for students in lowest developmental
courses
 Measurable success
– Increased successful ESL course completion rate
 70 students attended ESL orientation
 77% success rate for those taking orientation
 73% success rate for those not taking orientation
– College Experience designed and approved for fall 2007
Faculty Development
Goal: Improve faculty skills, especially in dealing with
developmental students
 Seminars
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Math Success Summit
Learning styles and incorporating study skills into a course
Cognitive Strategies seminar
Workshop in using student portfolios
 In-house sessions
– Brain-Based Pedagogy: Seven Keywords for Igniting Student
Learning
– Arithmetic Across the Curriculum
– It’s Not As Easy as “Just Read It”
– Arithmetic and Algebra orientation
 Measurable success
– 94 faculty attended Title III seminars
Focus on Learning
2006 – 2007
Year 3 Projects
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Budget: $367,000
Individualized Academic Plan
Continuing and refining developmental pilots
Improving our tools and metrics
Title III
The People Who Make It Happen
 Title III staff
– Sheila Cancella
Former Proj. Director
– Marian Eberly
Activities Director
– David Ross
Retention Specialist
– Christine Pipitone
Assessment
– Nicole Roseman
Project Assistant
 Math staff
– Cyndee Geoffroy
– Aditi Patel
 English staff
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Barbara Bretcko
Karen Gaffney
Brock Haussamen
Gwen Kane
Andy Manno
Christine Pipitone
 ESL staff
– Cheryl Bell
– Kevin Hinkle
– Susan Salminen
Title III
Energized people making a difference
Back-up
Developmental Curriculum
Revision
- English  ENGL 050 Introduction to College Reading and Composition I
– Replaces Intro College Reading I, Fundamentals of Writing
– Reduces credit hours from 9 to 6
– Introduces 3 hours of computer lab time
 ENGL 060 Introduction to College Reading and Composition II
– Replaces Intro College Reading II, Basic Composition seminar
– Reduces credit hours from 7 to 4
– Introduces 2 hours of computer lab time
 ENGL 030 Composition Workshop
– Linked to English I
– Provides reading/writing support
– Taught in a computer lab
Developmental Curriculum
Revision
- Math  Created diagnostic tests
– Designed to better understand skill needs of
students
– Tested study skills, learning modality
 Incorporated skill learning into courses
– MATH 013 Arithmetic Mod I – Computation
– MATH 022 Algebra Mod I – Equations & Inequal.
Algebra Mod I Results
 32 students
 40.6% pass rate
 Unusually weak class
– 13 students had previously failed this course
 10 students had multiple failures in Arithmetic mods
– 3 students withdrew from course in prior sem.
– 3 students took course for first time. All failed.
– 1 student was taking course for 5th time
 Results would have probably been worse
without the study skills component