1. Toward Multiple Measures for Math Placement at Mid Michigan Community College
Peter Velguth, Ph. D.
Scott Mertes, Brandon Kish, jessie Gordon, Brent Mishler, Emma Gunu, Kim Oren

2. Mid Michigan Community College
Rural setting in Harrison MI
Second campus Mt Pleasant
Student body ~ 4,300 headcount – Full and part time
About 25% dual enrollees
Range of programs, both career centered and transfer
More than half of CC students take developmental math
Various legislatures question paying for math twice
High stakes placement tests – students may be placed 1, 2, or 3 levels below transfer level math
Placement at MMcC at the start of this work
Accuplacer primarily
SAT, ACT

3. Prior Research (CCRC) Hughes and Scott Clayton (2011)
Assessing Developmental Assessment in Community Colleges
Scott Clayton (2011)
Do High-Stakes Placement Exams Predict College Success? 
Belfield and Crosta (2012)
Predicting Success in College: The Importance of Placement Tests and High School Transcripts
Prior Research (CCRC)

4. 2012 Placement Accuplacer or ACT - based cutoffs
Origin – Math faculty and student services

5. Data, methods, personnel
Data – First Time Freshmen from Fall Terms 2012, 2013, 2014
Analysis – Predict course success (“C” or Better) with transcript data: courses, grades, cumulative GPA, ACT
Coding of courses
Logistic regression
Data, methods, personnel

6. Example HS Math course taxonomies
Courses “binned” into categories

7. Significant variables
101 Basic Mathematics Geometry, Accounting
104 Basic Algebra HSGPA, Accuplacer
105 Intermediate Algebra HSGPA
Predictive model from logistic regression based on HSGPA alone.
Acceptable to all stakeholders?

8. Example analysis

9. Research since study inception
Peter Bahr and MCCA (2017)

10. Formulas to Implementation

11. Example HS Math course taxonomies
Courses “binned” into categories

12. Future Preliminary result of new placement Culture of placement
Placement rates –
decreased developmental
Increased college level
Grades analysis pending after fall term complete
Culture of placement IT
Student services/ admissions
Math faculty
English faculty