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Sarah Taylor, MSW, PhD, Nidhi Khosla, MPH, PhD, & the Pioneers for Hope Learning Framework Team at California State University, East Bay
International Consortium for Social Development, 21st Biennial International ConferenceYogyakarta, Indonesia * July 16-19, 2019
Goal Attainment in College StudentsListed in the program as: Goal Attainment in College Students from Underprivileged Backgrounds
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Presenters & Co-AuthorsSarah Taylor, MSW, PhD, Associate Professor of Social WorkNidhi Khosla, PhD, MPH, PGDRM, Assistant Professor, Health Sciences Ryan Gamba, PhD, MPH, Assistant Professor, Health SciencesLael Adediji, EdD, Program Coordinator, Renaissance ScholarsShelby Bergeron, Undergraduate Research AssistantJoel Bovey, MSW Candidate, Graduate Student Research AssistantAlina Engelman, DrPH, MPH Assistant Professor, Health SciencesDarice Ingram, MPA Candidate, Program Coordinator, Pioneers for HOPE Ali Jones-Bey, MA, Program Coordinator, Pioneers for HOPE Learning FrameworkTsz Kwan Lan, MSW Candidate, Graduate Student Research AssistantAlicia Lindfors, Research AssistantMaureen Scharberg, PhD, Dean of Academic Programs and ServicesEdward S. Inch, PhD, Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs
Overview of Today’s Talk
● Our university● Connection with ICSD themes &
Sustainable Development Goals● Project overview● Collaborative, participatory,
team-based approach● Goal attainment scaling● Brief findings● Discussion
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Mission: Cal State East Bay welcomes and supports a diverse student body with academically rich, culturally relevant learning experiences which prepare students to apply their education to meaningful lifework, and to be socially responsible contributors to society. Through its educational programs and activities, the university strives to meet the educational needs and to contribute to the vitality of the East Bay, the state, the nation, and global communities.
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Motto: Per Aspera Ad Astra Through Adversity to the Stars
Cal State East Bay is among the top 10 campuses in the country for social mobility: http://socialmobilityindex.org/
From: https://www.csueastbay.edu/about/facts.html
68% of students receive financial aid.
41% received Pell Grants in 2017-2018.*
Over 60% of students are the first in their families to go to college.
CSU East Bay Call to Action
Graduation rates for CSUEB2 are approximately:
● 48% of incoming first-year students graduate in 6 years● 75% of transfer students graduate in 4 years
A 2016 survey of CSUEB students1 (n=770) found:
● About half reported experiencing food insecurity● Close to 1 in 5 had experienced an episode of homelessness in the past year
Sources: 1. http://asd.calstate.edu/dashboard/graduation-success.html 2. Internal campus report prepared by the CSU Basic Needs Initiative (https://www2.calstate.edu/impact-of-the-csu/student-success/basic-needs-initiative/Pages/default.aspx)
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Connection with ICSD Themes & UN SDGs● Developed countries such as the US have significant degree of relative
poverty and income disparities● College education correlates with higher economic opportunity, breaking the
cycle of poverty, addressing historical injustices, and supporting sustainable prosperity.
From: https://sustainabledevelopment.un.org/sdgs
Project Overview
In Year One, the focus was on needs assessment to answer the following questions:
● What are the needs of our students?● How to enhance our support for students?● How can we raise awareness and educate the
campus community?
In Year Two, we are implementing a pilot intervention based on what we learned.
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Goal: To identify strategies that support underserved and under‐resourced students to make academic progress and complete their degrees.
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● Team includes faculty, administrators, staff, and students from about 10 different departments/units on campus.
● Weekly team meetings● Ongoing, hands-on collaboration
using web-based software designed for teams: Google docs, Zotero, and Dedoose
● Engagement with other on- and off-campus partners
Interdisciplinary, Collaborative, Team-Based Approach
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Strategy Sessions & Hackathon Recap
● Open to the campus community● Four sessions: Nov 2017 & June 2018 ● 24 people attended the strategy sessions,
37 people attended the hackathon; a mix of students, faculty, staff, and administrators.
● Strategy Sessions: brainstormed about how we define student success as well as the barriers and facilitators of it.
● Hackathons: shared preliminary findings and brainstormed about Year 2 interventions
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Methods Overview● Exploratory, participatory,
longitudinal, mixed methods study
● Purposive recruitment ● Data collection from
January-July 2018● Four waves of
open-ended, semi-structured interviews and surveys (n=53 at Wave 1; n=48 at Wave 4)
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Goal Attainment Scaling*“Let’s take a few minutes to talk about your academic goals this year - things you hope to do by June. We are going to think about your goals on a continuum, from an outcome that would be fantastic, to one that would not be desirable for you.
Thinking about your academic goals, tell me what would be a wonderful achievement for you by June - something that is possible, but would be a reach?
Next tell me about what you think you could achieve that is still good, but less of a reach.
Finally, tell me about what it would look like if you did not achieve your academic goal -- that is, an outcome you would not be happy with.” *Kiresuk, T. (Ed.), Smith, A. (Ed.), Cardillo, J. (Ed.). (1994). Goal
Attainment Scaling. New York: Psychology Press.
Goal Setting Interview ExampleInterviewer: OK so thinking of that. What do you think for academically would be at the top of the mountain?
Student: The top is for me to have--graduate with my Bachelors Degree. That's, I mean, by June, that's I want. Now. I realize that if I don't, if I just made it to like the [middle], because the WST [Writing Skills Test] is hanging over me. So if I don't pass that, then the WST is going to be in my way. Now I could I could walk possibly but not get it, my degree. That would be a good achievement. But I'd still have to do the WST...So I'd still have that. I completed my courses but I didn't do that. So that would be hanging over head. So that's undesirable to me. And then an undesirable outcome is that I don't complete my courses. That I am not able to navigate myself through this and I just give in to all the negative voices that I grew up with.
Goal Examples
Reach: Get accepted into grad school
Acceptable outcome: Get BA in Spring
Undesirable outcome: Not an option
Reach : Figure out & enroll in classes Acceptable outcome: Pass my classes
Undesirable outcome: Not to be able to enroll in classes
Reach: Grades of B or higher
Acceptable outcome: C or higher
Undesirable outcome: Ds or Fs
Reach: Get straight As
Acceptable outcome: Bs
Undesirable outcome: Cs or below
Findings Highlights
Attainment Number %
1 (undesirable outcome) 5 10.4
2 (progress toward mid-range goal) 2 4.2
3 (mid-range goal attained) 15 31.3
4 (progress toward the reach goal) 5 10.4
5 (reach goal attained) 19 39.6
Missing/could not extract 2 4.2
TOTAL 48 100
Lessons Learned
● A radically open approach to team building with flexible opportunities for participation successfully engaged a diverse group of stakeholders
● We learned a great deal about our students - their strengths, adaptive coping, and intersecting challenges
● Goal attainment scaling was an easy to use, valuable tool for learning about and measuring students’ goals and interests
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Contact Information
Sarah Taylor: [email protected]
Nidhi Khosla: [email protected]
To download a copy of these slides, go to: http://www.csueastbay.edu/learningframework/updates.html