Associate Degree Nursing Program Data Collection

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Associate Degree Nursing ProgramData Collection

• Assessment Data Reporting Workshop
• Economic Development and Workforce Preparation
  Division
• September 17, 2008

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• Agenda
• Welcome and Introductions
• Background
• SB 1309
• SB139

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• Agenda continued
• Collecting the data and validating assessment
  instruments
• Variable specifications
• Assessment Vendors
• ATI
• Elsevier

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COMPLETION / DUE DATE

• Email Data Sets to me at
• bwhitney_at_cccco.edu
• On
• OCTOBER 15, 2008

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Background

• SB 1309
• For grant funded nursing programs - required
  assessment testing prior to enrolling students in
  the nursing program to determine readiness
• Required remediation for those students who were
  not successful prior to enrollment

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Background continued

• Required the Chancellors Office to
• 1) Identify, in collaboration with community
  college associate degree nursing programs,
  nationally recognized diagnostic assessment
• tools that determine the likelihood of
  academic success in community college
  registered nursing education programs.

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Background continued

• Required the Chancellors Office to
• (2) Establish, in collaboration with community
  college associate degree nursing programs, the
  system wide proficiency level necessary for
  academic success for each diagnostic assessment
  tool.

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Background continued

• Specific reporting requirements
• (1) The number of students enrolled in the
  nursing program.
• (2) The number of students taking diagnostic
  assessments.
• (3) The number of students failing to meet
  proficiency levels as determined by diagnostic
  assessment tools.
• (4) The number of students failing to meet
  proficiency levels that undertake preentry
  preparation classes.

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Background continued

• Specific reporting requirements (cont.)
• (5) The number of students who successfully
  complete preentry preparation coursework.
• (6) The average number of months between
  initial diagnostic assessment, demonstration of
  readiness, and enrollment in the nursing program
  for students failing to meet proficiency
  standards on the initial diagnostic assessment.

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Background continued

• Specific reporting requirements (cont.)
• (7) The average number of months between
  diagnostic assessment and program enrollment
  for students meeting proficiency standards on
  the initial diagnostic assessment.
• (8) The number of students who completed the
  associate degree nursing program and the number
  of students who pass the National Council
  Licensure Examination (NCLEX).

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Background continued

• Specific reporting requirements ( cont.)
• Data reported to the chancellor under this
  article shall be disaggregated by age, gender,
  ethnicity, and language spoken at home.
• The chancellor's office shall compile and provide
  this information to the Legislature and the
  Governor by March 1 of each year.

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Background continued

• SB 139
• Expanded ability to use assessment tools to any
  community college nursing program whether or not
  they participated in grants
• Any community college district, irrespective of
  whether it participates in the program
  established by this article, may use any
  diagnostic assessment tool that is commonly used
  in registered nursing programs and is approved by
  the chancellor.

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Background continued

• Collecting the data and validating assessment
  instruments
• Variable specifications
• Data needed for Chancellors report to
  legislature
• Data needed to validate assessment
  instruments/adjust the composite score

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Background continued

• Collecting the data and validating assessment
  instruments (cont.)
• Variable specifications
• Need hard copy of specifications to complete
  Excel spreadsheets
• May use grant funds to pay for data entry

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Background continued

• Variable specifications (cont.)
• Effective dates for student status
• October 15 (in this case 2007)
• March 15 (in this case 2008)
• Arbitrary dates for a cutoff point
• Student status for the semester as of this date
• Student status after the effective date reported
  for next semester
• Doesnt work for your college/call me

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Review Variable Specifications

• Variables are the same for all vendors
• ATI Variable Specifications will be example for
  review
• ATI variable specifications are color coded
• White ATI is source for data
• Yellow college supplements ATI data, ATI has
  partial data
• Green college enters data/is source for data