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Southwest Texas Junior College
Presentation for
AtD Strategy Institute Workshop
February 6-7, 2008
Dick Whipple
Dr. Blaine Bennett
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Southwest Texas Junior College
Is A “Round One” AtD College
Our New Mantra Is
“As an AtD college, we seek to be data driven in our decision making.”
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Being “Data Driven” Means
• Collecting and analyzing data
• Reporting and interpreting results
• Making decisions supported by the data
• Getting buy-in from constituencies
• Making changes to processes
• Repeating and tracking improvement
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Cohort Analysis
• Cohort analysis is a basic tool in data-driven decision making
• Working definition: Cohort analysis is the time-based study of an outcome based on some common characteristic of cohort membership.
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Cohort Analysis Components
1. A criteria to select the cohort from a larger group
2. A completion or “success” criteria
3. A time over which to conduct the study
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IPEDS Graduation Rate
1. Selection criteria: FTIC, full-time, degree seeking students
2. Completion criteria: Degree
3. Time: 150% of expected degree completion time.
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SWTJC Graduation Rate
1. Selection: FTIC 2002, full-time, degree seeking
2. Completion: Associate Degree
3. Time: Three years
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Gatekeeper Cohort
1. Selection criteria: Enrolled Fall 2003, Enrolled developmental MATH 0303 (Level 3 of 3)
2. Completion criteria: MATH 1314 College Algebra (Gatekeeper)
3. Time: Three years
Enrolled
Fall 2003
EnrolledMATH 0303
CompletedMATH 1314
4734 252 85
“Larger Group” “Cohort” “Success in three years”
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Digging Deeper
• 34% of the cohort completed the gatekeeper course in three years
• A good baseline measure for evaluating improvement strategies
• But is there more information lying beneath the surface?
• Do we need to dig a little deeper?
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Estudias – Data Warehouse
• SWTJC uses a commercial product called Estudias as a data warehousing tool
• Estudias provides a number of custom reporting options
• One of these graphically displays cohort tracking results
• We utilized this to “dig deeper” into our math developmental cohort
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Completion Point Analysis
• Graphically depicts “completion vs. time”
• Reveals a problematic delay between completing the developmental sequence and completing the gatekeeper
• Raises further questions about the effect of the delay on success in the gatekeeper
• Graphically then, what do we want to see?
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Ideal Curve
More Success...Sooner!
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Cumulative Completion Analysis
• Graphically depicts “cumulative completions vs. time”
• The same data is depicted in a different way
• Consider the gateway completion example above
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Cumulative Completion Analysis
• As before, there is an “ideal curve” we want to achieve
• It would rise quickly to level off at a desired value
• Again, let’s look at the gateway completion example above
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More Success...Sooner!
Ideal Curve
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AtD Initiative – Math Linking
• Lets look at a specific example showing how this use of data lead to an Atd initiative
• Recall the earlier “Completion Point Analysis” math gatekeeper completion
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Suggests that students are waiting too long after completing the developmental sequence to take college algebra, a gatekeeper course.
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AtD Initiative – Math Linking
• Hold that thought for a second and consider this additional piece of data
• Let’s study the time to graduation for students completing our three gatekeeper courses (College Algebra, Comp I, and U. S. History I)
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Suggests that students completing college algebra are more likely to graduate.
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AtD Initiative – Math Linking
• The data would suggest that we should close the gap between when students complete the math developmental sequence and take college algebra
• For the last two years, as an AtD initiative we have linked the highest level of developmental math and College Algebra into a single semester format.
• Let’s take a look at the results so far.
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AtD Initiative – Math Linking
• The data clearly demonstrates that math linking is having the desired effect.
• This spring we will further evaluate the linking initiative and plan for its future.
• We are looking at other linking options including MATH 0302 to MATH 0303.
• Let’s test drive Estudias and see it work.