Faculty Said/Students Said

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Faculty Said/Students Said

• Community College Survey of Student Engagement
  2005 Findings

Presenters LaSylvia Pugh Pamela G. Senegal
February 17, 2006
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Workshop Goals

• Identify faculty/student gaps in practices,
  programs services
• Active and Collaborative Learning
• Student-Faculty interaction
• Support for Learners
• Academic Challenge
• Learn about best practices from peer
  institutions
• Begin thought process about intentionality to
  achieve our Vision for a Learning College
• Note todays presentation is one slice of
  this rich data. We will continue to parse it in
  different ways over the next year, as we refine
  our QEP topic, broadly implement some facets of
  our ATD plan.

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What is CCSSE?

• A tool that helps us
• assess quality in community collegeeducation
• identify and learn from good educational
  practice practice that promotes high levels of
  student learning and persistence and
• identify areas in which we can improve programs
  and services for students.

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What is CCFSSE?

• The Community College Faculty Survey of Student
  Engagement is
• Web-based Instrument
• Designed to mirror CCSSE to
  facilitate comparisons between
  student and faculty responses

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CCSSE Data Collection Process

• A total of 679 credit students in 68 curriculum
  courses at the Main campus, NDC, and the OCSDC
  were surveyed in the spring of 2005.
• A random sample of 68 courses was
  selected based on class start time
• Excluded Courses Noncredit courses Distance
  learning courses Lower-level Developmental
  courses Independent study courses Dual-enrollmen
  t courses - Huskins Bill classes -
  Dual-enrollment students under 18

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CCFSSE Data Collection Process

• A total of 169 full-time and part-time faculty
  members completed the CCFSSE in the spring of
  2005
• Only faculty members teaching a course
  in the spring of 2005 were invited to
  participate
• Faculty members received an e-mail
  invitation directly from CCSSE
  facilitators in March

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Comparison of CCFSSE CCSSE

• CCFSSE asks faculty members to respond
  based on a SPECIFIC COURSE they were teaching
  in the spring of 2005
• CCSSE asks students to respond based on
  experiences at THIS college during THIS
  (2004-2005) academic year

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• Study Findings

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Profile of Student Participants

• 61 Female
• 39 Male
• 43 White, Non- Hispanic
• 36 African American
• 42 Between the ages of 18 24

• 53 Enrolled full- time
• 47 Enrolled part- time
• 50 Started college at DTCC
• 51 Work more than 30 hours per week
• 40 First generation college students

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Profile of Faculty Participants

• 62 Female
• 38 Male
• 72 White, Non- Hispanic
• 18 African American
• 10 First year teaching

• 49 Have 1 to 9 years of teaching
  experience
• 63 Masters degree
• 14 Doctoral degree
• 50 Full-Time Faculty
• 50 Part-Time Faculty

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Question Active Collaborative
Learning

• CCFSSE (Faculty)
• How often do students in your selected course
  section make a class presentation?
• CCSSE (Student)
• In your experiences at this college during the
  current year, about how often have you made a
  class presentation?

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Class Presentation?
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Question Active Collaborative
Learning

• CCFSSE (Faculty)
• How often do students in your selected course
  section work with classmates outside of class to
  prepare class assignments?
• CCSSE (Student)
• In your experiences at this college during the
  current year, about how often have you worked
  with classmates outside of class to prepare class
  assignments?

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...Worked with classmates outside of class?
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Active Collaborative Learning

• Best Practices

James. A. Rhodes State College (OH) Santa Fe
Community College (FL)
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Best Practices Active Collaborative
Learning

• James. A. Rhodes State College (OH) the early
  childhood education program students select and
  work with local community organizations that
  assist families. Working in small groups, the
  students interview the organizations employees
  and undertake projects that benefit their
  selected organizations. This volunteer work is
  completed outside of the regularly scheduled
  class time.
• Santa Fe Community College (FL) to promote
  meaningful student-faculty-interaction outside
  the classroom, faculty offices are in
  interdisciplinary units that combine private
  offices with comfortably furnished common areas
  that become sites for review sessions,
  information advising, and intellectual
  discussions.

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Question Student-Faculty
Interaction

• CCFSSE (Faculty)
• How often do students in your selected course
  section discuss grades or assignments with you?
• CCSSE (Student)
• In your experiences at this college during the
  current year, about how often have you discussed
  grades or assignments with an instructor?

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Discuss grades or assignments?
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Question Student-Faculty
Interaction

• CCFSSE (Faculty)
• How often do students in your selected course
  section discuss ideas from their readings or
  classes with you outside of class?
• CCSSE (Student)
• In your experiences at this college during the
  current year, about how often have you discussed
  ideas from your readings or classes with
  instructors outside of class?

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Discuss ideas or readings outside of class?
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Question Student-Faculty
Interaction

• CCFSSE (Faculty)
• How often do students in your selected course
  section talk about career plans with you?
• CCSSE (Student)
• In your experiences at this college during the
  current year, about how often have you talked
  about career plans with an instructor or an
  advisor?

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...Talk about career plans?
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Question Student Faculty
Interaction

• CCFSSE (Faculty)
• How often do students in your selected course
  section receive prompt feedback (written or oral)
  from you about their performance?
• CCSSE (Student)
• In your experiences at this college during the
  current year, about how often have you received
  prompt feedback (written or oral) from
  instructors on your performance?

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...Receive prompt feedback about performance?
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Student-Faculty Interaction

• Best Practices

Tallahassee Community College (FL) Valencia
Community College (FL)
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Best Practices Student-Faculty
Interaction

• Tallahassee Community College (FL) focusing on
  early engagement with students, faculty receive
  electronic rosters that include student photos.
  Additionally, each student receives a TCC e-mail
  address, and faculty are given student e-mail
  groups for each section they teach.
• Valencia Community College (FL) has a
  creativity course in which the instructor invites
  inspiring leaders to talk with students about
  channeling creativity into educational, career
  and life choices. In this course, the college
  president, for example, talked with students
  about using his own poetry and music in his quest
  for balance between life and work.

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Question Support for
Learners

• CCFSSE (Faculty)
• How much does this college emphasize helping
  students cope with their non-academic
  responsibilities (work, family, etc.)?
• CCSSE (Student)
• How much does this college emphasize helping you
  cope with your non-academic responsibilities
  (work, family, etc.)?

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...Emphasize help with non-academic
responsibilities?
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Question Support for
Learners

• CCFSSE (Faculty)
• How much does this college emphasize providing
  students the support they need to thrive
  socially?
• CCSSE (Student)
• How much does this college emphasize providing
  the support you need to thrive socially?

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...Provide the support to thrive socially?
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Question Support for
Learners

• CCFSSE (Faculty)
• How much does this college emphasize providing
  the financial support students need to afford
  their education?
• CCSSE (Student)
• How much does this college emphasize providing
  the financial support you need to afford your
  education?

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...Provide the financial support to afford
education?
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Question Support for
Learners

• CCFSSE (Faculty)
• How important do you believe academic
  advising/planning is to students at this college?
• CCSSE (Student)
• How important is academic advising/planning to
  you at this college?

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...Importance of academic advising/planning?
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Question Support for
Learners

• CCFSSE (Faculty)
• How often do you refer students to academic
  advising/planning?
• CCSSE (Student)
• How often do you use academic advising/planning?

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Refer to (Use) academic advising/planning?
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Question Support for
Learners

• CCFSSE (Faculty)
• How important do you believe career counseling is
  to students at this college?
• CCSSE (Student)
• How important is career counseling to you at this
  college?

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...Importance of career counseling?
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Question Support for
Learners

• CCFSSE (Faculty)
• How often do you refer students to career
  counseling?
• CCSSE (Student)
• How often do you use career counseling?

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Refer to (Use) career counseling?
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Support for Learners

• Best Practices

Housatonic Community College (CT) Sinclair
Community College (OH)
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Best Practices Support
for Learners

• Housatonic Community College (CT) academic
  advising is mandatory students advisor must
  approve their course selections before they can
  register.
• Sinclair Community College (OH) serves many
  first-generation students who have trouble
  navigating the college system. All FT employees
  within student services attend 16 hours of
  customer service training per year. (Part-time
  staff members attend slightly less training).

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Question Academic
Challenge

• CCFSSE (Faculty)
• To what extent do students experiences in your
  selected course section contribute to their
  knowledge, skills, and personal development in
  acquiring job or work-related knowledge and
  skills?
• CCSSE (Student)
• How much has your experience at this college
  contributed to your knowledge, skills, and
  personal development in acquiring job or
  work-related skills?

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Contribute to acquiring job or work-related
skills?
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Question Academic
Challenge

• CCFSSE (Faculty)
• To what extent do students experiences in your
  selected course section contribute to their
  knowledge, skills, and personal development in
  thinking critically and analytically?
• CCSSE (Student)
• How much has your experience at this college
  contributed to your knowledge, skills, and
  personal development in thinking critically and
  analytically?

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Contribute to thinking critically and
analytically?
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Question Academic
Challenge

• CCFSSE (Faculty)
• How important do you believe skill labs (writing,
  math, etc.) are to students at this college?
• CCSSE (Student)
• How important are skill labs (writing, math,
  etc.) to you at this college?

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...Importance of skill labs?
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Question
Academic Challenge

• CCFSSE (Faculty)
• How often do you refer students to skill labs
  (writing, math, etc.)?
• CCSSE (Student)
• How often do you use skill labs (writing, math,
  etc.)?

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.Refer to (Use) skill labs?
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Academic Challenge

• Best Practices

Wor-Wic Community College (MD) Prince Georges
Community College (MD)
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Best Practices Academic
Challenge

• Wor-Wic Community College (MD) all courses
  require at least one writing assignment and one
  electronic library assignment.
• Prince Georges Community College (MD) has a
  98 graduation rate at its Honors Academy.
  Academy graduates success rate at four-year
  institutions is equally high. The Honors Academy
  includes demanding courses, community service and
  leadership requirements, one-on-one mentoring,
  full scholarships, and seamless transfer to
  four-year institutions where financial help is
  also provided.

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• Questions?

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Coming Soon

• QEP Kickoff
• National CCSSE/CCFSSE Results
• Benchmark Reports

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• Thank you for your participation!