CB21-ARCC-CDCP: Showing Success

Marcy Alancraig, Cabrillo CollegeJanet Fulks, ASCCC

• Consider the “Stimulus Package” and the tarp bailout funds. Should the people receiving the money be required to account for how they spend it?

• If you went back to college to work on another degree and spent $10-15,000 per year, what expectations would you have for that investment?

Asking Relevant Questions

• This is accountability.

• BUT just reporting numbers is only part of the puzzle

– Numbers may measure what you want – or may not

– Numbers without context are misleading

– Numbers don’t correct problems

The Puzzle of Accountability

Why Does Accountability Matter?

• What comes to mind when you hear accountability in education?

• What comes to mind when you hear “accountability in non-credit”?

Why Does Accountability Matter?

What Happens When Accountability Goes Wrong?

• Based on Faculty performance of objectives

• Detailed and non productive

• Focuses on content

• Limits reporting to statistical data

• No dialogue

• No direction for interventions

No Child Left Behind

• Should be based on higher level outcomes

• Should help improve practice

• Should be based on authentic student proficiencies

• Should indicate potential interventions and improvement

No Child Left Behind is Unhealthy Accountability

Healthy and Responsible Accountability

• Define what student should be able to do• Identify a way to assess it • Collect the accurate and relevant data

based on your assessment• Analyze and discuss the data• Change what you do because of the

results

• You have always done this!!!

So How Does Healthy Accountability Work?

Previously

• Credit attached to units

• Grades

• Degrees, certificates

Now – What are students able to do?

• Student learning outcomes

In Credit Education How Have We Defined Accountability?

• Turn to the person next to you and share about a successful student you had.

• How did you know the student was successful?

• How did the student show you that he or she was successful?

• How did the student know she or he was successful?

Student Success

Accountability Metrics in Noncredit

• Three annual accountability reports1. Focus on Results: Accountability Reporting for

the California Community Colleges (ARCC)2. Career Development and College Preparation

in the State: Supplement to the ARCC Report3. Basic Skills Accountability Framework

• “report cards” on a variety of measures

Why Noncredit Accountability?

• Three significant bills passed in California Legislature

Where there is money – there must be accountability!

This is credit and noncredit too!

Enhanced Noncredit Funding

• Noncredit gets funded less per FTES than credit

• SB 361 increased noncredit funding from $2,626 per FTES to $3,092 per FTES

• Applies to students enrolled in a sequence of courses leading to career development or college preparation (CDCP certificates)

Focus on Results: ARCC Report

• System- wide statistics

• College-level statistics

• 1 noncredit performance indicator – CDCP Progress and Achievement Rate

Statewide Indicators

Sample College Level Indicators

CDCP Progress and Achievement Rate Specific to Noncredit

• Cohort

– Students taking courses for the first time at any CCC

– Did not enroll in any credit courses during the first term they enrolled in CDCP

– Must have completed 8 or more positive attendance hours in CDCP courses within their 1st two terms of attendance

– Only System-level data

CDCP Progress and Achievement Rate

• Performance indicators – achieved any of the following within 3 years of entry– Completed at least 1 degree-applicable credit

course– Earned a CDCP certificate– Achieved “transfer-directed” status– Achieved “transfer-prepared” status– Earned an AA, AS, and/or credit certificate– Transferred to a 4-year institution

Persistence Indicators

What Would Healthy Accountability Look Like In Noncredit?

• Think back to the student you discussed earlier.

• What would indicate success?• What would you need to know to improve

your teaching and contribute to that student success?