PreCollegiate Basic Skills

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(Pre-Collegiate) Basic Skills

• Why study it?
• Alexander Astin Providing effective remedial
  education would do more to alleviate our most
  serious social and economic problems than almost
  any other action we could take.

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(Pre-Collegiate) Basic Skills

• Statewide picture
• 37 failed writing test at UC
• 47 failed in English placement tests at CSU
• Community colleges mission
• Basic Skills One (basic basic)
• Basic Skills Two (all other courses)
• Individual students stories

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Designs of Studies

• Traditional (single semester success retention)
• Tracking
• Cohorts (SRTK model)
• PFE (long-distance race)
• Impact Studies (course choice, income, degree
  attainment)
• Clusters, Profiling
• Gateway, English 290, Focus Group...

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Participation in PBS by All Students
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Participation in PBS by Graduates
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Three Research Questions

• What kind of basic skills courses did former
  graduates take?
• by degree types
• Who were the ones that took the courses?
• by demographics (age, gender, race)
• by high school origin
• What are the success and retention rates for
  these courses?

Jing Luan, Cabrillo College
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Participation in PBS by Degree Types
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Success Rates Compared
CG, DS, LS, SPCOM
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Other Basic Skills Study Ideas

• Longitudinal Cohort Tracking
• Selection of all students enrolled in Semester A
  with a course enroll record in (pre-collegiate)
  basic skills course.
• Separate the students into English, Reading,
  Math.
• Match students ssns with records from Semesters
  B, C, D by course type.

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Other Basic Skills Study Ideas

• English 290
• Enroll basic skill students in English 290. Ghost
  Class concept. Innovative Design with lots of
  web-based learning and individual tutoring.
• Research - tracking the outcome of higher level
  courses taken.

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Other Basic Skills Study Ideas

• GATEWAY
• Working with students who have been assessed into
  three basic skills courses in peer support
  groups.
• Research - compared the outcome with comparison
  groups and outcomes of higher level courses.

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Other Basic Skills Study Ideas

• Focus Groups
• Datawarehousing those who were assessed into
  combinations of two basic skills courses.
• Monitoring demographic changes in relation to
  basic skills
• Partnering with local high schools

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Locate Cabrillo OIR in the Wonderful Weightless
World (WWW)

• http//www.cabrillo.cc.ca.us/pres/pres/jluan
• or
• Office of Institutional Research
• 6500 Soquel Drive
• Aptos, California 95003
• 831.477.5656
• jing_at_cabrillo.cc.ca.us