The Students Said pt.2

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The Students Said (pt.2)

• Community College Survey of Student Engagement
  2005 Findings

Presenter LaSylvia Pugh August 29, 2006
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What is CCSSE?

• A tool that helps us
• assess quality in community collegeeducation
• identify and learn from good educational
  practice practice that promotes high levels of
  student learning and persistence and
• identify areas in which we can improve programs
  and services for students.

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Community College Survey of Student Engagement
(CCSSE)

• The 38-item Community College Survey of Student
  Engagement (CCSSE) is used to assess the
  following five benchmarks of effective
  educational practice
• Active Collaborative Learning
• Student Effort
• Academic Challenge
• Student Faculty Interaction
• Support for Learners

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CCSSE Data Collection Process

• A total of 679 credit students in 68 curriculum
  courses at the Main campus, NDC, and the OCSDC
  were surveyed in the spring of 2005.
• A random sample of 68 courses was
  selected based on class start time
• Excluded Courses Noncredit courses Distance
  learning courses Lower-level Developmental
  courses Independent study courses Dual-enrollmen
  t courses - Huskins Bill classes -
  Dual-enrollment students under 18

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Presentation Purpose

• Share results of the Community College
  Survey of Student Engagement (CCSSE)
• Compare and contrast Part-time and Full-time
  students responses to CCSSE
• How do we compare?

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How do we compare?

• 2005 North Carolina Consortia includes 11
  community colleges (5,806 students)
  Caldwell, Cape Fear, Durham, Guilford, Martin,
  Mayland, Southwestern, Surry, Tri-County,
  Wayne, Western Piedmont
• The means (arithmetic average) of DTCC
  student responses were compared to the 10 other
  schools in the NC Consortia
• () indicate responses above the mean (-)
  indicate responses below the mean

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• Study Findings

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Part-time Student Demographics

• 47 of participants are part-time
• 46 Started college at DTCC
• 66 Female 34 Male
• 71 Age 25 or older
• 46 White, Non-Hispanic
• 40 Black or African American
• 35 Earned 1 to 14 credits at DTCC
• 61 Not Married

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Full-time Student Demographics

• 53 of participants are full-time
• 39 Started college at DTCC
• 56 Female 44 Male
• 54 Between ages of 18 to 24
• 42 White, Non-Hispanic
• 40 Black or African American
• 33 Earned 1 to 14 credits at DTCC
• 75 Not Married

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Question Active Collaborative
Learning

• In your experiences at this college during the
  current year, about how often have you made a
  class presentation?

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Class Presentation?
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Question Active Collaborative
Learning

• In your experiences at this college during the
  current year, about how often have you worked
  with other students on projects during class?

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...Worked with other students during class? (-)
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Question Active Collaborative
Learning

• In your experiences at this college during the
  current year, about how often have you worked
  with classmates outside of class to prepare class
  assignments?

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...Worked with classmates outside of class? (-)
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Question
Student Effort

• During the current school year, about how much
  reading and writing have you done at this
  college?
• Number of books read on your own for personal
  enjoyment or academic enrichment

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Number of books read?
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Student Effort

• About how many hours do you spend in a typical
  7-day week preparing for class (studying,
  reading, writing, rehearsing,doing homework, or
  other activities related to your program)?

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Hours preparing for class?
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Question
Student Effort

• How often do you use peer or other tutoring
  services at this college?

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Use peer or other tutoring?
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Question
Student Effort

• How often do you use skill labs (writing, math,
  etc.) at this college?

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Use skill labs? (-)
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Question Academic
Challenge

• During the current school year, about how much
  reading and writing have you done at this
  college?
• Number of assigned textbooks, manuals, books, or
  book-length packs of course readings

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Number of assigned books?
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Question Academic
Challenge

• During the current school year, about how much
  reading and writing have you done at this
  college?
• Number of written papers or reports at any length

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Number of written assignments? (-)
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Question Academic
Challenge

• Using a scale of 1 to 7, with 1 being Extremely
  Easy and 7 being Extremely Challenging, to what
  extent have your examinations during the current
  school year challenged you to do your best work
  at this college?

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Challenging exams?
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Question Academic
Challenge

• How much does this college emphasize encouraging
  you to spend significant amounts of time
  studying?

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...Emphasize spending time studying?
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Question Student Faculty
Interaction

• In your experiences at this college during the
  current year, about how often have you used
  e-mail to communicate with an instructor?

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Used e-mail to communicate? ()
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Question Student Faculty
Interaction

• In your experiences at this college during the
  current year, about how often have you talked
  about career plans with an instructor or advisor?

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Talked about career plans? (-)
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Question Student Faculty
Interaction

• In your experiences at this college during the
  current year, about how often have you worked
  with instructors on activities other than
  coursework?

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Worked with instructors? (-)
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Question Student Faculty
Interaction

• In your experiences at this college during the
  current year, about how often have you discussed
  ideas from your readings or classes with
  instructors outside of class?

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Discussed ideas outside of class?
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Question Support for
Learners

• How much does this college emphasize providing
  the support you need to help you succeed at this
  college?

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...Provide the support to succeed?
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Question Support for
Learners

• How much does this college emphasize helping you
  cope with your non-academic responsibilities
  (work, family, etc.)?

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Help with non-academic responsibilities?
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Question Support for
Learners

• How much does this college emphasize providing
  the financial support you need to afford your
  education?

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Provide the financial support to afford
education? (-)
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• To Be Continued!

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• Questions?

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Additional Student Data Sources

• TLC Community College Faculty Survey of
  Student Engagement (CCFSSE) L. Pugh
  September 14, 2006 at 2pm Collins 286
• TLC Non-returning AtD Student Survey
  Update S. Healey September 20, 2006 at 2pm
  Collins 261
• Evaluation Research section of the
  intranet Enrollment reports Achieving the
  Dream data Other survey results

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• Thank you for your participation!