ARCC

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ARCC

• Report to the Board of Trustees
• Cuesta College
• 03/05/08

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Prerequisites for tonight
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What is ARCC?

• Accountability Reporting for the Community
  Colleges (ARCC) established by AB 1417 (Pacheco)
• Consists of 7 college level indicators of
  effectiveness
• Very public data second year of reporting

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What are the indicators?

• Student progress and achievement (degrees,
  transfers, etc.)
• Percentage of students who earn at least 30 units
• Persistence rate (fall to fall)
• Annual successful course completion rate for
  credit vocational courses (A,B,C, CR)
• Annual successful course completion rate for
  basic skills courses (A,B,C,CR)
• Improvement rate for credit basic skills courses
• Credit ESL improvement rate

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Student Progress and Achievement Rate
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Percent of students who earned at least 30 units
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Fall to Fall persistence rate
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Vocational course success rate (A,B,C,CR)
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Basic skills course success rate (A, B, C, CR)
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Basic skills and ESL improvement rates
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Peer group construction

• First, regression equations were constructed,
  using variables out of the control of colleges,
  to predict performance on each indicator
• Second, colleges were clustered into peer
  groups based upon their similarities in the array
  of significant predictors for each indicator
• Because each indicator has a different set of
  significant predictor variables, a different peer
  group exists for each variable.

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How do we compare to our peer groups?
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Whats next?

• Each college is required to respond to the final
  report
• Each college must submit a copy of board minutes
  showing the interaction with the report
• Questions?