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It's Time to Complete Community College
Student Outcome Studies Show What It Takes to Succeed
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eBook - ePub
It's Time to Complete Community College
Student Outcome Studies Show What It Takes to Succeed
About this book
Earning a college degree improves health and economic wellbeing. Thus, American taxpayers subsidize a majority of the cost of public colleges. At least half of all college students in the U.S. today attend two-year colleges; yet, fewer than half of these students achieve their educational goals. This book, written by an experienced community college teacher summarizes specific evidence-based methods to improve student learning and completion.
This book summarizes:
student characteristics including socio-economic status, academic background, work/family commitments;instructional methods of work-pace, grading procedures, student practice opportunities, and feedback to students;institutional policies such as course scheduling, teaching loads, teacher training, availability of student services, commitment of administrators to using assessment to improve student learning outcomes.If you are a college student/parent of a college student, college teacher/administrator, or concerned taxpayer; you are invited to read this book and join this discussion. It is unlikely that college completion rates will significantly improve without informed communities demanding institutional action.
This book summarizes:
student characteristics including socio-economic status, academic background, work/family commitments;instructional methods of work-pace, grading procedures, student practice opportunities, and feedback to students;institutional policies such as course scheduling, teaching loads, teacher training, availability of student services, commitment of administrators to using assessment to improve student learning outcomes.If you are a college student/parent of a college student, college teacher/administrator, or concerned taxpayer; you are invited to read this book and join this discussion. It is unlikely that college completion rates will significantly improve without informed communities demanding institutional action.
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Table of contents
- Contents
- Foreword
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Part I: Community College Completion: Concern or Crisis?
- Chapter 1: The Value of Two-Year Colleges
- Chapter 2: Measuring Student Learning
- Chapter 3: Academic Inputs and Student Learning Outcomes
- Chapter 4: Instructional and Institutional Practices and Student Outcomes
- Part II: How Do Instructional Practices Influence Student Outcomes?
- Chapter 5: A Study of Student Outcomes in a Gateway Course
- Chapter 6: Course Grading Practices and Work-Pace
- Chapter 7: Instructional Practices That Support Student Outcomes
- Part III: Does Increasing Student Access Improve Student Success?
- Chapter 8: The Continuum of Instructional Course Designs
- Chapter 9: Patterns of Student Enrollment across Course Designs
- Chapter 10: Improving Student Access and Learning Outcomes
- Appendix A: Systems Used to Determine Student Ability
- Appendix B1: Criterion-Referenced, Work-Pace 1 Syllabus
- Appendix B2: Norm-Referenced, Work-Pace 2 Syllabus
- Appendix B3: Criterion-Referenced, Work-Pace 3 Syllabus
- Appendix B4: Norm-Referenced, Work-Pace 4 Syllabus
- Appendix C: Instructional Practices and Student Outcome Statistical Discussion and Tables
- Appendix D1: Example of a Face-to-Face Paper Rubric
- Appendix D2: Online Essay and Essay Response Rubrics
- Appendix D3: Course Design and Student Outcome Statistical Discussion and Tables
- References
- About the Author