Strengthening Student Success Conference October 9-11, 2013

Alice Mecom Division Chair, NCESL

Karen Hamilton Vocational ESL Instructor

Glendale Community College

Participants will identify success indicators within a transitional, basic skills program explore ways to use success indicators to assess program learning outcomes and improve student motivation and retention create a student-friendly pathway model to distribute to students

 Discuss

significance

Describe

importance of success indicators (aka momentum points)

your own student pathway model

Create

 State

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AMERICAS PERFECT STORM

ESL & Immigration

Unprepared H.S. grads

Living Wage Jobs = College Degree

http://www.ets.org/perfect_storm

College Ready 30%

Basic Skills 70%

NC 24%

(40% are ESL)

Credit 76%

BASIC SKILLS POPULATION

ESL COMPRISES 92% of NC BASIC SKILLS POPULATION (FTES)

CCCCO, 2011, 2012

along the path to completion, there are a number of key momentum points associated with an improved probability of success. Each time a student progresses beyond a momentum point, the likelihood of reaching his or her educational goal increases.
Student Success Task Force, 2011, p. 8

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CCCCO, 2012

Desire for Socio-Economic Mobility

AACC CCCCO SSTF BSI ESL Students

Actual Success Rates

ACCC, 2012; CCCRP, 2007; CCCSSTF, 2012; Kim, 2011: Lambert, 2008; Rafzar & Simon, 2011; Ramsey & Robyn, 1992; Zacharakis, 2011

 Program

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Survey Results at the Main Campus (n=356)

Living in the U.S. (27%)

Certificate or Degree (47%)

CalWorks or GAIN (2%) Don't Know (2%)

Job (22%)

Education Job Family Future

Advanced Certificate

Intermediate Certificate

Beginning Certificate

 65

beginning, 33 intermediate, 9 advanced Of the 65 beginning earners, only 5 persisted to intermediate and 2 to advanced 33% of intermediate earners transferred into Credit ESL, while only 18% continued to earn an advanced certificate Intermediate earners were 3x more likely to enter credit ESL as advanced earners One out of every 5 A.S. Degree earners started out in NCESL!
Campus Data, 2010-2012

Invite

students and teachers Pathway speakers

Noncredit

Business Academic Counselor Student Success Center Student Certificate-Earner

 Does

your program have momentum points? What formal or informal markers can be used an indicators of success?

How would you relay these to your students? Can these markers be reframed as pathways?

How

would this model serve students, teachers, program directors, administrators?

Opportunities to show progress Student friendly Shows big picture

 Alice

Mecom

amecom@glendale.edu

Karen

Hamilton

khamil@glendale.edu

Glendale Community College Noncredit ESL