Student Success
Improving our students success in achieving their academic goals is our primary focus. There are discussions happening at the college level and state level about what is meant by "student success", how we measure it (is it just course completion and retention rates?), how we increase our success rates while maintaining high academic standards, how we increase student engagement so that they'll be motivated to succeed, what resources we need to create or improve to increase student success, how to link those resources to the students who need them, and more! The resources on this page include the statewide efforts and the campuswide efforts.
Statewide Student Success Task Force
Short note from the California Community College chancellor, Jack Scott about the task force's draft of recommendations that will affect us all (they determine state funding priorities!):
As you know, the California Community College Board of Governor’s Student Success Task Force has been working diligently for the past nine months examining how to improve student success at the community colleges. Attached you will find a set of draft recommendations that will be circulated widely for public input and will be posted on our website (www.cccco.edu/studentsuccess). I invite you to review these recommendations and look forward to having a robust discussion with you in the coming weeks and months. Feel free to forward the draft recommendations to anyone who is interested in the work of the Student Success Task Force.
- Final Report of the Student Success Task Force (PDF dated 30 Dec 11)
- Draft recommendations of the California Community Colleges Task Force on Student Success (PDF dated 30 Sept 11)
- Feedback through online dialog until November 1, 2011 (select the link to give your input). The Task Force will meet again on November 9th at which time they will discuss input received in the meetings (conferences, organizational meetings, town halls) and online. After reviewing input, they will make adjustments to the plan as warranted. The proposal will then be forwarded to the BOG for consideration at their January 2012 meeting. It will take time to collate all of the feedback, so the deadline for input is November 1st, not November 9th.
- Face-to-face dialog opportunities (see their calendar of upcoming events and meetings)
College Think Tank on Student Engagement
As announced on Opening Day, The Assessment Committee went through the Assessment Plans for each department last year, looking for themes. One stood out: Lack of Student Engagement. The executive summary of the Community College Survey of Student Engagement taken in Spring 2011 corroborates this.
To tackle this issue, the Assessment Committee is sponsoring Think Tanks for faculty, staff and administrators to discuss and research “Un-engaged Students” with the goal of having an activity or ideas for intervention in the spring. This is a hot topic around the state, with a great deal of research on the issue already.
- Meetings
- October 21, 2011 session (10:30 AM - 12 PM in LEV 40): We will be focusing on student effort and faculty expectations. Can we impact these areas? What are faculty already doing in the classroom that is successful in this area? We are working to produce a project that will impact BC student effort in the spring of 2012. Come to this meeting with either a journal article on effective classroom strategies to impact student effort, or your (or another faculty member's) strategies to get students to do the work necessary to pass our classes.
- October 28, 2011 session (10:15 AM - 11:15 AM in LEV 40): Join your colleagues in a chance to discuss, research, and formulate a plan to improve student engagement in the classroom.
- November 18, 2011 session (10:45 AM - 12 PM in LEV 40): Join your colleagues in a chance to discuss, research, and formulate a plan to improve student engagement in the classroom.
- Accountability's Fine, but It Won't Replace Great Teachers—a literature professor now community college president writes about the downside of the metrics we're using to measure community college success. Discussion after the article is worthwhile reading too. (May 31, 2011)
Community College Survey of Student Engagement (CCSSE)
Extensive research has identified good educational practices that are directly related to retention and other desired student outcomes. The Community College Student Report, CCSSE’s survey instrument, builds on this research and asks students about their college experiences — how they spend their time; what they feel they have gained from their classes; how they assess their relationships and interactions with faculty, counselors, and peers; what kinds of work they are challenged to do; how the college supports their learning; and so on.
- Executive Summary of the survey given to students + faculty in Spring 2011 (prepared by the CCSSE group–PDF)
- Bakersfield College 2011 results on the CCSSE website
- Relationships of CCSSE results and the ACCJC accreditation standards. (PDF)
The components in this file are:
- CCSSE Survey Instrument.pdf
This is a scanned version of the paper instrument we used Spring 2011.
- CCSSE-CCFSSE Crosswalk.pdf
This is a list of similar item from CCSSE and CCFSSE, arranged first by CCSSE benchmark and then by other related items (so you can quickly see which items comprise the benchmarks as well as other items).
- Accreditation Guide_CCSSE_WASC-ACCJC.pdf
This is the updated guide showing the CCSSE mappings to the WASC-ACCJC standards.
- Student Faculty Freq Distn Rep.xls
These are CCSSE and CCFSSE frequency distributions with similar items side-by-side for quick comparison of student and faculty responses. The faculty results are shown for part-time, full-time, and all faculty combined.
- BC CCSSE & CCFSSE Example Item 4a.doc
This is an example that Ann Morgan (our Institutional Researcher) prepared which uses the documents above.
- CCSSE Survey Instrument.pdf
This page was last updated: February 13, 2012
Contact for this page: Nick Strobel
