Outstanding Project
Tips for Using the Basic Skills Progress Tracker
Craig Hayward, Cabrillo College; and Myrna Huffman, Vinod Verma & Tom Nobert, California Community Colleges Chancellor's Office, with support from Katie Hern, Lynn Wright & Myra Snell, 3CSN
Planning - Project of the Year Award
The Basic Skills Progress Tracker (or Progress Tracker, for short) tracks cohorts of students in four general areas: English reading, English writing, ESL, and math. ESL may be subdivided into four related areas (integrated, reading, writing, & listening)depending on the curriculum of the college(s) included in the query. The ProgressTracker establishes cohorts of students by looking at the first basic skills course ever taken by a student in a basic skills subject area. This starting cohort will be in a yellow highlighted cell in the final report. Basic skills courses in the four major basic skills areas are identified by TOP code and by CB21 code (COURSE-PRIOR-TO-COLLEGELEVEL).