1. Increasing Student Transition and Success: Where the Rubber Meets the Road

2. What is Cal-PASS?  Creates regional partnerships  Links primary, secondary and post-secondary institutions on a regional basis  Tracks students from one segment to the next  Includes over 2,000 K-12 schools, community colleges and universities throughout California

4. Cal-PASS Principles  Collaboration  Discovery  Alignment  Innovation  Evaluation  Expansion

5. Cal-PASS Benefits  Increase communication among systems  Inform and document the K-16 pipeline  Improve articulation and student preparation  Empower faculty to improve instruction  Facilitate student learning  Assess the effectiveness of interventions

6. What Kinds of Data are Collected? Student identifiers (encrypted) Student file  Demographic information  Attendance Course file  Enrollment information  Course performance Student test file  STAR  HS exit exam Award file  Diplomas, degrees, certificates Optional files  Information collected on interventions Data are anonymous – personal identifier information is removed or encrypted

7. Making Cal-PASS Work: The Faculty Councils  English  Mathematics  Counseling  ELL/ESL  Tech Prep  Science

8. Math Council Activities  Focused on Algebra 1 ( Beginning)  Includes K-8, HS, CC  Working on reviewing standards  Identify common strands in Algebra curriculum  Deconstructing curriculum Identifying best practices  All web-based access

9. English Council Activities  Middle School, HS, CC, and Univ.  Developed common curriculum areas  Staff development training  Adopting a High School  Integrating with current CSU expertise  Mirroring a CSU/CC CAN English 1 module

10. ELL/ESL Council Activities  Summer Bridge

11. Science Council Activities  Early Planning

12. Tech Prep Council Activities HS and GCCCD Changed procedures  Electronic A&R transfer and upload  Web Site developed  Work with teacher

13. Cal-PASS Research  Action Research Paradigm  Faculty, administrators, and local researchers are active participants  Iterative process to refine analysis  Common questions become standard reports or web based queries produced by Cal-PASS staff  Locally unique questions handled by local researchers with assistance from Cal-PASS staff

14. Overall success rates declined from 65% to 64

15. Percent of Community College transfer cohort earning Alpha State degree by Community College GPA and time N=1,829 students from 3 local CC’s. 44% of cohort earned degree in 6 years. Each GPA category contains an approximately equal number of students.

16. How to Contact Us Brad Phillips, Executive Director bphillips@calpass.org (619) 252-8503 Michelle Kalina, Associate Director mkalina@calpass.org (916) 759-2486 Mary Kay Patton, Database Administrator mkpatton@calpass.org (916) 995-3183 Shelly Valdez, Regional Coordinator svaldez@calpass.org (619) 732-5663 Terrence Willett, Director of Research twillett@calpass.org (831) 277-2690 www.calpass.org