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Promoting Student Success in College: Lessons Learned Student success occurs one class at a time Student momentum matters ➤ Completion requires timely completion of many classes over time.TRANSCRIPT
A Matter of Degrees:Promising Practices and College Completion
2012 Annual Workshop - NISODAustin, TX
May 29, 2012
Vincent TintoSyracuse University
(315) [email protected]
Promoting Student Success in College:Lessons Learned
• Student success occurs one class at a time➤ Classrooms as nexus of institutional action for student success
Promoting Student Success in College:Lessons Learned
• Student success occurs one class at a time
• Student momentum matters➤ Completion requires timely completion of many classes over time.
Promoting Student Success in College:Lessons Learned
• Student success occurs one class at a time
• Student momentum matters
• Student success requires going beyond
vaccines➤ One shot interventions are not enough
Promoting Student Success in College:Lessons Learned
• Student success occurs one class at a time
• Student momentum matters
• Student success requires going beyond
vaccines• It is one thing to start a program, another to
sustain it and scale it up over time➤ To many programs start and stop and even when effective
rarely scale up across campus
Building Successful Classrooms
• Expectations➤ Clear, consistent, accurate information➤ High expectations
Building Successful Classrooms
• Expectations• Support
➤ Academic Support➤ Social Support
Building Successful Classrooms
• Expectations• Support• Assessment and Feedback
➤ Entry assessment and placement➤ Institutional monitoring of progress➤ Classroom assessment of performance
Building Successful Classrooms
• Expectations• Support• Assessment and Feedback• Engagement
➤ Contact with students, faculty, and staff➤ Active engagement in learning with others➤ Intensity / time-on-task
Establishing Clear Expectations
• Mandatory first-year advising
• On-line advising (e.g. Saddleback College)
• Peer Mentoring
Providing Academic Support
• Getting an Early Start ➤ Summer Bridge programs
Providing Academic Support
• Getting an Early Start ➤ Summer Bridge programs
• Contextualization of academic support➤ Student success courses
➤ Supplemental instruction (e.g. El Camino College)
➤ Embedded academic support (e.g. I-Best)
➤ Basic skills learning communities (e.g. LaGuardia CC)
LaGuardia CC - ESL Linked Courses
ESL Developmental English
Accounting
“The relationship between accounting and ESL is helping a lot because the accounting professor is teaching us to answer questions in complete sentences, to write better. And we are more motivated to learn vocabulary because it is accounting vocabulary, something we want to learn about anyway. I am learning accounting better by learning the accounting language better.”
Providing Assessment and Feedback
• Assessing student classroom performance for student success➤ Early warning systems (e.g. Signals, EARS)
➤ Automated feedback systems (e.g. clickers)
➤ One-minute papers
Promoting Student Engagement
• Pedagogies of Engagement➤ Cooperative learning
➤ Problem-based / Project-based learning
➤ Service learning
“You know, the more I talk to other people about our class stuff, the homework, the tests, the more I’m actually learning... and the more I learn not only about other people, but also about the subject because my brain is getting more, because I’m getting more involved with the other students in the class. I’m getting more involved with the class even after class.”
Promoting Student Engagement
• Pedagogies of Engagement• Learning Communities
➤ Living-Learning communities
Promoting Student Engagement
• Pedagogies of Engagement• Learning Communities• Service Learning
Promoting Classroom Success
• Faculty as key to student success➤ Not leaving faculty development to chance
(e.g. Richland College, Valencia College)
• Identifying roadblocks➤ Fixing courses with high failure rates
Student Momentum Matters
• Identifying roadblocks
• Identifying momentum points➤ State of Washington momentum point analysis
Student Momentum Matters
• Identifying roadblocks
• Identifying momentum points
• Building structured pathways to college completion➤ Completion By Design (Florida, North Carolina, Ohio, Texas)
Student Momentum Matters
Going Beyond Vaccines
• Student success requires extended support➤ ASAP (Borough of Manhattan, Kingsborough, LaGuardia)
Going Beyond Start-Ups
• Sustaining institutional action➤ Scaling up takes time➤ Importance of assessment to prove and improve
Going Beyond Start-Ups
• Sustaining institutional action
• Scaling up institutional action➤ Sharing ownership
Program Growth Curve
Promising Practices
• Structured First-Year Programs➤ http://www.fyfoundations.org/
• Mathways Project➤ www.utdanacenter.org/mathways.edu
Closing Thoughts
• Student success does not arise by chance ➤ It requires intentional, structured, and proactive
action that is systematic in nature and coordinated in application
Closing Thoughts
• Student success does not arise by chance ➤ It requires intentional, structured, and proactive
action that is systematic in nature and coordinated in application
➤ “Students should not do optional” - McClenney