| In a 90 minute Roundtable session, the first
rotation uses the first 45 minutes and the second rotation uses the last 45 minutes.
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| Roundtable Rotation I:
Value-resonant Evaluation Design Within Community-School Partnerships to Improve College Access |
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Roundtable Presentation 125 to be held in Lido A on Wednesday, Nov 2, 4:30 PM to 6:00 PM
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Sponsored by the College Access Programs TIG
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| Presenter(s):
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| Silvia Swigert, University of California, Irvine, sswigert@uci.edu
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| Amanda Valbuena, University of California, Irvine, avalbuen@uci.edu
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| Abstract:
Building effective community-school partnerships with post-secondary partners to improve college-going rates in low-income schools is one of the goals of GEAR UP, a federal college access program implemented through local partnerships. The participants in these partnerships include school administrators, teachers, and parents, in addition to business, community, and post-secondary partners. Designing a useful evaluation for a parent college access outreach program can be a difficult enterprise for the evaluation team. Conflicting values guiding the decisions about what to study and how to study it can lead to a stalled evaluation of the program processes. This paper describes the context of a parent-to-parent outreach program co-created in 2001 by a post-secondary partner, along with parents in the community surrounding the target schools, entering a new phase of interdependence between partners and requiring a fresh look at whose values will guide the future evaluation of the partnership.
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| Roundtable Rotation II:
The College of 'Best Fit': Evaluating the Whole Student to Increase College Graduation Rates |
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Roundtable Presentation 125 to be held in Lido A on Wednesday, Nov 2, 4:30 PM to 6:00 PM
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Sponsored by the College Access Programs TIG
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| Presenter(s):
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| Ashley Allen, Horizons for Youth, ashley@horizons-for-youth.org
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| Abstract:
College access programs assist in removing the barriers for students to attend college; especially for those in underrepresented populations. These programs must now focus to remove barriers that prevent students from actually graduating from 4-year institutions. A college's ability to meet the financial, academic, emotional and social needs of a student once they are enrolled is a large determining factor on whether they will graduate. For evaluation purposes the college that most closely meets the previously mentioned needs will be referred to as the college of 'Best Fit'. The proposed roundtable will explore best practices in evaluating financial, academic, emotional and social factors in assisting students in college access programs with choosing a college of 'Best Fit'.
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