Conference Strands and Audiences

Topic Strands

Accreditation & Institutional Effectiveness - implementing an integrated planning, assessment, and improvement cycle, as well as processes and practices developed by colleges that leverage the ACCJC’s requirements

Basic Skills & English Language Learning - pre-collegiate math, English, reading, and ESL learning and assessment practices for diverse students, and the integration of basic skills in student learning throughout the curriculum and service delivery in noncredit and credit programs

Career Technical Education - successful CTE program, learning, and assessment strategies that contribute to student success, the integration of CTE, basic skills, ESL, and general education, and facilitating the transition of students across these programs

Equity - practices, interventions, and structural reforms that strengthen equity for all groups of students including outreach, access, basic skills, course success, progress through the educational sequence, completion of goals, certificates, and degrees, and transfer

Instructional Practices - learning initiatives that build on and transform traditional teaching, learning, and program delivery such as cross-curricular learning, acceleration, professional learning, use of technology, metacognition, and learning theory

Student Learning Outcomes Assessment - methods that measure SLOs at various levels, as well as strengthen connections between faculty and research, are sustainable, utlize equity data, link to program review, and address student progress

Student Services - strategies for implementing the planning, assessment, and improvement cycle within counseling, DSPS, EOPS, library, and other services programs and integration with the delivery of basic skills, curriculum, and other programs

Supporting Collaborative Inquiry - how information has been used to improve practices, programs, and student success and how colleges have enhanced the utility of evidence by maximizing connections among researchers, practitioners, and college structures

Transition to College & Transfer - successful practices and assessment strategies related to enhancing student preparation, progress and completion through the K-16 sequence, including partnerships with other institutions, effective use of support services, and system-wide efforts

Audiences

College leadership and practitioners of student learning and assessment, including:
• Faculty
• Deans and program directors
• Senior administrators and managers
• Student services professionals
• Professional development leadership
• Researchers and planners
• Student leaders