Multiple Approaches to Multiple Measures: Four Three Approaches to Improving Student Achievement Through More Holistic, Evidence-Based Multiple Measures Assessment and Placement RP Conference April 8, 2015

Janet Fulks Dean of Student Success & Precollegiate Director of Making it Happen, Bakersfield College Erik Cooper Dean, Planning, Research, and Resource DevelopmentSierra College Andrew Fuenmayor Senior Research Analyst, Long Beach City College John Hetts Senior Director of Data Science, Educational Results Partnership and CalPASS Plus

Student transitions to CC Community colleges rely nearly entirely on standardized assessment Increasingly, students placed below college-level Significant barrier (Bailey, Jeong, and Cho, 2010) First interaction Imply that most students are not ready for college and are likely to fail Convinces many, including our students Multiple measures (esp. GPA) hold substantial promise for fairer and more accurate predictor of college performance/graduation Challenges to implementation, ROI, second order effects

Four reimaginations of that front- door interaction in CCCs Bakersfield College Sierra College Long Beach City College Rio Hondo College

Bakersfield College

Overview of Intervention Multiple measures placement Testing changes: test and location Student Support Mentors Summer Bridge Convocation Ceremony Classroom Interventionists

Key Data Issues for BC Completion Data Basic Skills Progress Data CCSSE – Perceptio n Data Equity Data SSSP- Student Service Data

Goals of MIH Make a difference in the number of students who succeed By connecting earlier in the pipeline Providing timely information and guidance at BC Increase Student engagement classroom interventions, SARS, Habits of the Mind and mentors Decrease Student time to completion Better placement –multiple measures, new placement test Faster remediation 2 years to complete the degree - when college ready Assess Learning outcomes (Think, Communicate, Demonstrate, Engage) Pilot with 500; Scale up to all students

Achieving the Dream Summit

School Multiple Measured up AcceleratedCompressedNot Moved SuccessNoSuccessNoSuccessNoSuccessNo HS# HS# HS# HS# HS# HS# HS# HS# HS# HS# HS# Total Treatment success rate 61%56%71%57% Treatment Results and Success Data by High School

12 What we have learned from the data GPA and Unit ceiling???????

13 What we have learned from the data MIH Group Math (college- wide) English (college- wide) Reading (college- wide) Total students enrolled from each cohort % (50.5%) 57% (57.4%) 62% (59.3%) % (52.7%) 64% (61%) 75% (60.8%) % (53.1%) 61% (61.8%) 59% (61.6%) %60%62%326

English 1A Transfer, Degree and Certificate 29% placed ENGLISH PLACEMENT 7323 STUDENTS PLACED % 29% Potential UNITS Cost to get all to English 1A $1,677,552 3 semesters 10 units Potential UNITS Cost to get all to English 1A $1,677,552 3 semesters 10 units Potential UNITS Cost to get all to English 1A $1,084,682 2 semesters 6 units Potential UNITS Cost to get all to English 1A $1,084,682 2 semesters 6 units Potential UNITS Cost to get all to English 1A $208,851 1 semester 4 units Potential UNITS Cost to get all to English 1A $208,851 1 semester 4 units

Negative Positive 1.Correction of institutional barriers 2.A learning institution (president & classified) 3.Analysis of this group compared to overall 4.Equity insights 5.Improvements to bridge and summer 6.Improvements to other support services and instruction 7. Partners – high schools, community groups, CalPASS, CalSOAP 1.Inability to use many college services 2.Problems with communicating through – address – Not using – texting – No computers 3.Messaging and culture (financial aid & early alert) 4.Overall Math + English + Reading units were too much all together 5.Learned about unit ceiling for this cohort Lessons Learned and Unintended Consequences

Our president and her mentee

Sierra College

Long Beach City College