Community College Survey of Student Engagement JIM Meeting Presentation January 20, 2009 Jerome Ward Director, Institutional Research Cochise College

Committing to Student Engagement at Cochise College 2008 Findings

Research shows that the more actively engaged students are – with faculty and staff, with other students – the more likely they are to learn, to stick with their studies, and to attain their academic goals. Why CCSSE ?

CCSSE: A Tool for Improvement CCSSE helps us: –Assess quality in community college education –Identify and learn from good educational practices –Identify areas in which we can improve

CCSSE: A Tool for Accountability CCSSE: –Provides reliable data on issues that matter –Reports data publicly –Is committed to using data for improvement CCSSE opposes using its data to rank colleges. ranking

CCSSE: A Tool for Community Colleges CCSSE data analyses include a three-year cohort of participating colleges. –The 2008 CCSSE Cohort includes almost 344,000 community college students from 585 institutions in 48 states, Canada, and the Marshall Islands.

CCSSE Benchmarks

CCSSE Benchmarks for Effective Educational Practice There are five CCSSE benchmarks: –Active and Collaborative Learning –Student Effort –Academic Challenge –Student-Faculty Interaction –Support for Learners

CCSSE Benchmarks for Effective Educational Practice

Benchmark Scores

Academic Challenge

Benchmark Scores Benchmark Scores Full-time vs. Part-time

Student Satisfaction 96% of all students indicated that they would recommend Cochise College to a friend or family member. 89% of all students rated their educational experience at Cochise College as good or excellent. Student Support 80% of all students indicated that their friends were quite a bit or extremely supportive of them attending Cochise, while 90% indicated that their families were. Taking classes elsewhere 17% of all students indicated that they were taking between one to more than four classes at schools besides at Cochise. Student Trends

Barriers to Persistence

Student-Faculty Interactions

2008 CCFSSE Findings

CCFSSE: –Elicits information from faculty about their teaching practices, the ways they spend their professional time both in and out of class, and their perceptions regarding students’ educational experiences –Is aligned with CCSSE to allow colleges to contrast student and faculty perceptions

Effective Educational Practices: Student and Faculty Responses

How Faculty Members Use Class Time 82% of faculty say they spend less than half of their class time lecturing 53% of faculty allocate less than 10% of their classes to small group activities 88% of faculty report spending less than 20% of their class time on in-class writing Compared nationally, Cochise faculty are twice as likely to devote more than half the class time to hands-on practice

How Faculty Members Use Class Time In your selected course section, on average, what percentage of class time is spent on each of these activities? 0%1–19%20–49%50–74%75–100% Lecture4%39%40%10%8% Teacher-led discussion3%45%37%11%3% Teacher-student shared responsibility17%45%28%6%4% Small group activities20%51%23%4%1% Student presentations28%56%11%3% In-class writing51%37%10%1% Experiential64%24%7%5%1% Hands-on practice18%32%21%14%16% Note: Percentages may not total 100% due to rounding.

Community College Survey of Student Engagement For more information visit: CCSSE online: And Institutional Research online: