| In a 90 minute Roundtable session, the first
rotation uses the first 45 minutes and the second rotation uses the last 45 minutes. |
| Roundtable Rotation I:
California Partnership for Achieving Student Success (Cal-PASS): Data-driven Faculty Decision Making to Improve Transitions Across Segments |
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Roundtable Presentation 750 to be held in Jefferson Room on Saturday, November 10, 10:30 AM to 12:00 PM
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| Presenter(s):
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| Jordan Horowitz,
California Partnership for Achieving Student Success,
jhorowitz@calpass.org
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| Abstract:
The California Partnership for Achieving Student Success is the only informational resource that creates regional partnerships among K-12 schools, community colleges, and universities through the sharing of student transcripts and performance information. Educators develop continuity and align curricula to make instructional improvements that better prepare students as they move from kindergarten to the university. Since 1998, over 2,500 educational institutions across California joined Cal-PASS.
Cal-PASS has established 37 Regional Consortia to keep the focus local. Professional Learning Councils of faculty, within discipline and across segments, operate within each to identify student achievement and transition issues, implement action plans, and assess effects. PLCs have been established in mathematics, English, English learners, science, and counseling.
Interested institutions sign data sharing agreements within their consortium. They submit student-level data to a central, FERPA compliant Cal-PASS database. Each student receives an encrypted, unique identification number in the system to track student groups across segments.
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| Roundtable Rotation II:
Evaluating the Retention of First Generation Students in a Community College: A Collaborative Approach |
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Roundtable Presentation 750 to be held in Jefferson Room on Saturday, November 10, 10:30 AM to 12:00 PM
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| Presenter(s):
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| Liliana Rodriguez-Campos,
University of South Florida,
lrodriguez@coedu.usf.edu
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| John Hoye,
Western Michigan University,
john.hoye@wmich.edu
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| Maxine Gilling,
Western Michigan University,
maxine.gilling@wmich.edu
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| Abstract:
Collaboration between stakeholders and evaluators is essential for achieving and meeting key goals. This paper describes the strategies used to improve the quality of a retention program, while applying the Model for Collaborative Evaluations (MCE). According to Rodriguez-Campos (2005), the MCE is a comprehensive framework that transforms evaluation into a joint responsibility process. This model guides collaborative evaluations in a precise, realistic, and useful manner. The MCE includes a set of six interactive components that helps establish priorities in order to achieve a supportive evaluation environment. Therefore, this model transforms evaluation into a joint responsibility process where the evaluators examine the role of collaboration to improve the quality of a retention program. In addition, they analyze the attributes that constitute "effective retention" as brought to light by this investigation. The decision for the practitioners to collaborate on the evaluation is aimed to make the evaluation truly learner-centered.
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