Promising Pathways - Placement, Performance, and Progress in Basic Skills and Transfer Level Courses in English and Mathematics

College Research - Project of the Year Award

Assessment: A closer look

New college-wide initiative at LBCC prompted us to lookmore thoroughly at assessment:

• The Promise Pathways is a program designed to provide astreamlined set of prescribed pathways towards meaningfulcertificates, degrees and transfer within 2-3 years.

• Working with our largest K-12 educational partner, wesought to collaborate across institutions to determine howbest to improve student preparation for college-level work.

• First step was to better understand high school courseperformance and assessment and their relation toplacement and performance in college courses.

• The implications of that first step were sufficientlyremarkable to us that we sought to share them with youas well as the method by which we arrived at them

The Method: Predicting placement and performance

This presentation will walk you through the process ofusing an automated tool for acquiring and utilizing abroad array of evidence from students’ high schoolcourse performance and assessment to determinethe key primary predictors of:

• where students are placed in your developmentalsequences and how students are likely to perform in your courses

• This tool is designed such that virtually any IE/IR officethat has Access and SPSS should be able toc omplete the basics of the work easily and efficiently