1. Getting Placement, Course Success, and Retention Right One Road to Improved Retention Getting Placement, Course Success, and Retention Right One Road to Improved Retention Deborah Anderson Director of Testing Front Range Community College Fort Collins, CO Deborah Anderson Director of Testing Front Range Community College Fort Collins, CO Sharon Jacobsen Testing Center Manager Rock Valley College Rockford, IL Sharon Jacobsen Testing Center Manager Rock Valley College Rockford, IL NCTA Conference 2010 Atlanta, Georgia

2. Session Overview College Readiness Data Retention/Placement Programs Front Range Community College Rock Valley College A+dvancer TM Student Data Survey Results Product Overview Discussion/Questions

3. The Perfect Storm Three forces changing our nation’s future 1. Changing economy 2. Demographic trends 3. Divergent skills sets Dropping literacy rates Dropping graduation rates Growing achievement gap http://www.ets.org/Media/Education_Topics/pdf/ExecSummAmPerfectStorm.pdf

4. Different Demographics Same Great Results with A+dvancer City of Rockford, ILLarimer County Population(city): 150,000Population: 295,000 Race: 68% White 18% Black 10% Hispanic 4% other Race: 91% White 1 % Black 7% Hispanic 1% Other Median income: $38,000Median income: $74,000 Educational attainment: 22% HS drop out 31% HS/GED 27% Some college 20% Bachelor’s degree or higher Educational attainment: 7.3% HS drop out 41.8% HS/GED or some college 50.9% Bachelor’s degree or higher 3 or 4 City of Rockford public high schools are identified as ‘drop out factories’ (Johns Hopkins University)

6. FRCC DATA Percentage of Students Placing into Developmental Courses from Accuplacer 51 72 86 51 70 83 45 72 87

10. STATISTICAL REPORT

11. Where we are using A+dvancer Front Range Community College DVR Partnerships Sun Grant – GED Retest Policy Rock Valley College Retesting H.S. Programs College Readiness, Dual-Credit & Upward Bound Pre-Placement @ Learning Opportunity Center

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20. Thank You Questions/Discussion Questions/Discussion Deborah Anderson Deb.anderson1952@gmail.com Sharon Jacobsen s.jacobsen@rockvalleycollege.edu