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Taking Student Success Seriously:Focusing on the College Classroom
Academic Senate for California Community CollegeApril 14, 2011
Vincent Tinto
Syracuse University
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Student Success in Community College
The classroom is the pivot point for institutional
action to enhance student success in college.
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Moving from Teaching to Learning
Focusing on the conditions in classrooms that
enhance student success.
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Conditions for Classroom Success
Expectations Clear, consistent expectations High expectations
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Conditions for Classroom Success
Expectations Support
Academic support Social support
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Conditions for Classroom Success
Expectations Support Assessment / Feedback
Early warning systems Classroom assessment and feedback
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Conditions for Classroom Success
Expectations Support Feedback Engagement
Active involvement in learning with others Intensity / Time-on-task
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Students will get more involved in learning, spend
more time learning, and in turn learn more when they
are placed in supportive educational classrooms that
hold clear and high expectations for their learning,
assess and provide frequent feedback about their
learning, and require them to share the experience of
learning with others.
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Building Classrooms for Student Success
What can community colleges do to construct
classrooms that enhance student success?
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Strategies to Enhance Student Success
• Expectations Knowing the pathway to college/program success Knowing the path to classroom success
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Strategies to Enhance Student Success
• Expectations• Support
Academic support services to connect and/or integrate support within the classroom (e.g. supplemental instruction, accelerated learning, basic skills learning communities, IBest)
Mentoring (e.g. faculty, staff, peer) Personal support / assistance (culture of support)
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Strategies to Enhance Student Success
• Expectations• Support• Feedback
Entry assessment and placement Early warning Classroom assessment (e.g. one-minute paper)
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Strategies to Enhance Student Success
• Expectations• Support• Feedback• Involvement
Pedagogies of engagement– Cooperative learning– Problem-based / Project-based learning
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Strategies to Enhance Student Success
• Expectations
• Support
• Feedback
• Involvement Pedagogies of engagement Learning communities
– Curricular and developmental/basic skills
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Promising Practices
• Statway: Rethinking Development Math
• Signals: Automating Classroom Assessment, Feedback, and Early Warning
• New Faculty Development: Taking Teaching Seriously
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Closing Thoughts
• Student success does not arise by chance.
• Successful programs require the collaborative efforts of faculty and staff across the campus.
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Resources: Successful Programs
L. Muraskin and J. Lee, Raising the Graduation Rates of Low-Income College Students. (Washington D.C., The Pell Institute for the Study of Opportunity in Higher Education, 2004)
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Resources: Supplemental Instruction
El Camino Community College
http://www.elcamino.edu/studentservices/fye/si/
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Resources: Cooperative Learning
Barbara Millis 2010. Cooperative Learning in Higher
Education. (Sterling, VA: Stylus Publishing).
Barkley, E, K.P. Cross, and C. Howell-Major. 2004. Collaborative Learning Techniques: A Handbook for College Faculty. (San Francisco: Jossey-Bass).
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Resources: Problem-Based Learning
University of Delaware: Institute for Problem-Based Learning (http://www.udel.edu/pb)
Maricopa Center for Learning & Instruction, Maricopa Community Colleges (http://www.mcli.dist.maricopa.edu/pbl)
Jose Amador (2006), The Practice of Problem-Based Learning: A Guide to Implementing PBL in the College Classroom. Anker Publishing.
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Resources: Learning Communities
The Learning Community Commons
The Washington Center for Undergraduate Education, The Evergreen State College
http://learningcommons.evergreen.edu
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The Learning Community ListservEvergreen State College
Gillies Malnarich and Emily Lardner
Co-Directors, The Washington Center
Resources: Learning Communities
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Resources: Basic Skills Instruction
Integrated Basic Skills
IBEST-Highline Community College
http://flightline.highline.edu/ibest/
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Resources: Basic Skills Instruction
Strengthening Pre-Collegiate Education in Community Colleges (SPECC)
http://www.carnegiefoundation.org/programs/
index.asp?key=26
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Resources: Statway
Statistics Pathway: Focusing on statistics, data analysis and quantitative reasoning
http://www.carnegiefoundation.org/statway
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Resources: Signals
Signals: Data Mining with Predictive Modeling to Identify at-risk students
http://www.itap.purdue.edu/studio/signals/
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Resources: Classroom Assessment
Thomas Angelo and Patricia Cross, 1993. Classroom Assessment Techniques: A Handbook for College Teachers (2nd Edition, San Francisco: Jossey-Bass)
Huba, M. and J. Freed. 1999. Learner-Centered Assessment on College Campuses: Shifting Focus from Teaching to Learning (New York: Allyn & Bacon)
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Resources: First Year of College
Foundations of Excellence
In the First Year of College
http://www.fyfoundations.org/