Presentations from the 2010 Strengthening Student Success Conference

PowerPoint showcasing how new technologies and tutoring is used in an ESL Writing Workshop.

PowerPoint addressing a study regarding key junctures where students encounter problems in receiving financial aid.

PowerPoint addressing how instructors, service providers, and students can apply an individually-tailored assessment loop for a course or service from the beginning to the end of a learning sequence, including how collaborative program-level reports can be segued into a program review document. 

Focused on placement tests, this PowerPoint presentation reflects student perspectives and investigates the correlation of Accuplacer scores to student performance.

PowerPoint highlighting key activities, trends, and findings from colleges receiving technical assistance to strengthen the use of data and information.

PowerPoint examining ways that faculty members and institutional research offices have collaborated to improve student success. 

PowerPoint highlighting student and faculty perspectives on contextualized teaching and learning, including presentations by faculty regarding how career and technical education programs can integrate math and English instruction. 

Tools for systematic program planning and evaluation, in the context of basic skills that can be used to clarify goals and systematically provide evidence that activities and programs are leading to greater student success.

PowerPoint describing various strategies that the Grossmont College mathematics department experimented with to improve student achievement for developmental students and their impact.

PowerPoint describing how faculty modified content and pedagogy, and how they addressed rigor and relationship-building in an effort to improve student success, for a program that helps disadvantaged students transition from high school to college.

Description of a curriculum of monthly workshops on various topics used to assist new faculty with developing effective teaching practices and also identify challenges.

Description of a Faculty Transfer Advisor Program and strategies that have been used by faculty to inform student about transfer options and requirements.

PowerPoint addressing authentic and sustainable models for GE outcomes assessment and how these methods give rise to insightful dialogue about data.

PowerPoint addressing Lane Community College's first-year strategies including an extended orientation program, first-year Learning Communities, enhancing curriculum across disciplines with student success strategies, and improved communication systems.

PowerPoint from a session addressing integrated leadership at every level of the institution by focusing on two colleges that made significant strides in a student success initiative by addressing the structural needs for leadership and leadership development for a student-centered culture. 

Presentation features findings from a study on  policies and practices that shape assessment and placement in California’s community colleges and students’ experiences preparing for and navigating within those assessment and placement policies and practices. 

Description of a new math curriculum delivery system including an Algebra immersion program, an individualized, modular curriculum, and an Intermediate Algebra curriculum that includes directed learning activities.

A presentation offering a simple rubric to examine existing SLOs at your college to find out what message they are sending and to help you write new ones if needed.

Drawing on work of faculty and administrators engaged in a range of initiatives, this PowerPoint addresses student outcomes, program evaluation and research to explore what’s proving effective in moving students towards their career goals.

PowerPoint offering practical, research-driven approaches to strengthen that partnership and integrate learning objectives across the disciplines including directed learning activities, classroom syllabi, and assessment models.

PowerPoint, based on work at Butte College, on how to develop academic support SLOs, learn an organized process for maintaining your SLO cycle, and, most importantly, assist you in developing successful interventions. 

PowerPoint describing Mendocino College's approach to developing professional development activities for the college and it has brought together full- and part-time faculty from across disciplines and levels. 

PowerPoint addressing how to use Tk20, an electronic system for student learning outcomes, outcomes-based assessments, and the measurement of institutional effectiveness.

Presentations by Scantron clients regarding how they are managing outcomes based assessment from both an instructional and support perspective.