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Download full textMcCormick, Alexander C.; Kinzie, Jillian; Korkmaz, Ali – Online Submission, 2011
This paper uses time series data from a widely used assessment to identify colleges and universities that demonstrate positive trends on a range of educational effectiveness measures, describe observed patterns of improvement, and examine informants' accounts of factors that contributed to the improvements. This study informs broad questions about…
Descriptors: Learner Engagement, Evidence, Educational Improvement, School Effectiveness
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Direct linkBaldwin, Christopher; Bensimon, Estela Mara; Dowd, Alicia C.; Kleiman, Lisa – New Directions for Community Colleges, 2011
Student success is at the heart of both institutional effectiveness and the community college mission, yet measuring such success at community colleges is problematic. This article highlights three efforts to grapple with this problem--a multistate work group of system- and state-level policymakers to create an improved set of student success…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Institutional Evaluation, Measurement, Measurement Techniques
Roueche, John E.; And Others – 1997
Focusing on efforts at community colleges to demonstrate institutional effectiveness, this monograph presents findings from a survey of 147 colleges regarding accountability practices and showcases seven colleges with effective accountability programs. The first chapter, "Focusing on the Problem: Accountability and Effectiveness in the Community…
Descriptors: Accountability, College Outcomes Assessment, Community Colleges, Educational Practices
Bowyer, Karen A. – Southern Association of Community, Junior, and Technical Colleges (SACJTC) Occasional Paper, 1990
In 1988, the American College Testing Program, together with the National Council of Instructional Administrators and the National Council for Student Development, initiated Project Cooperation (PC) to examine outcomes assessment strategies and measures of institutional effectiveness among two-year colleges. The first initiative of PC was a survey…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, College Outcomes Assessment, Community Colleges, Educational Assessment
Walleri, R. Dan; Stoering, Juliette M. – New Directions for Higher Education, 1997
The evolution of the Mt. Hood Community College (Oregon) effort to analyze institutional policies affecting high-risk students is chronicled from the early 1980s to the present, from the initial findings of program ineffectiveness to program improvement. Chronicle includes successes and limitations of several early-change strategies, and factors…
Descriptors: Change Strategies, College Outcomes Assessment, Community Colleges, Educational Trends
Leas, David; Lillibridge, Fred – 1993
In 1992, Alamogordo Branch Community College (ABCC), a branch campus of New Mexico State University, developed and implemented the Institutional Assessment and Strategic Planning (IASP) process, an integrated process designed to assess both student academic achievement and institutional effectiveness. Each year, the IASP process begins when…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, College Faculty, College Outcomes Assessment, College Planning
