November 13, 2013

Contra Costa Community College District

Board Review Achievement Gap Report

&College Scorecards

District Strategic Plan

Goal #1: Student Learning & Success

Significantly improve the success of our diverse student body in pursuit of their educational and career goals with special emphasis on closing the student achievement gap.

District Strategic Plan

Goal #1 Objectives

1.1 Increase the percentage of students who transfer to a variety of four-year institutions while narrowing the transfer gap across subgroups.

1.2 Increase the percentage of students who receive relevant and timely training for the workplace while narrowing the achievement gap across subgroups.

1.3 Increase the number of degrees by 50% and the number of certificates by 100% by 2015.

1.4 Increase the percentage of Limited English Proficient students who become proficient in the English language.

1.5 Increase the percentage of students who are proficient in Basic Skills while narrowing the proficiency gap across subgroups.

Achievement Gap Report

Note that the Achievement Gap Report wasn’t designed explicitly to track each of our strategic goals. It does however provide a window through which we can gauge our progress in closing the achievement gap.

Achievement Gap Table

Let’s walk through a quick illustration of what these symbols represent ….

55%

60%

65%

70%

75%

80%

85%

90%

95%

100%

Base Year

Current Year

50%

Overall Average

70%

Overall Average

77%

Success by Cohort (Base year & Current year)

An illustration(not actual data)

+7%

+7%

+7%

+7%

+7%

+7% Gap Exists

Overall Improvement

Parity

55%

60%

65%

70%

75%

80%

85%

90%

95%

100%

Base Year

Current Year

50%

Average70%

Average70%

Success by Cohort

An illustration(not actual data)

-9%

-4%

-3%

0%

+5%

+7%

Gap Exists – Some Improvement

No Overall Improvement

55%

60%

65%

70%

75%

80%

85%

90%

95%

100%

Base Year

Current Year

50%

Average70%

Average82%

Success by Cohort

An illustration(not actual data)

+6%

+5%

+7%

+21%

+16%

+24%Gap Exists – Some

Improvement

Overall Improvement

Improvement -Closed Gap

Goal #1 Objectives

1.1 Increase the percentage of students who transfer to a variety of four-year institutions while narrowing the transfer gap across subgroups.

Goal #1 Objectives

1.2 Increase the percentage of students who receive relevant and timely training for the workplace while narrowing the achievement gap across subgroups.

CTE Completion overall percentages 2008/09 = 55%

2011/12 = 53% (page 4)

Goal #1 Objectives

1.3 Increase the number of degrees by 50% and the number of certificates by 100% by 2015.

Let’s look at our progress to date …

2008/09 2011/12 2014/150

500

1000

1500

2000

2500

1,496

1,902

2,244

992

1,614

1,984

Goal #1 Objectives

1.3 Increase the number of degrees by 50% (from 1,496 to 2,244) and the number of certificates by 100% (from 992 to 1,984) by 2015.

Degrees Certificates

81%

At the half way point, how close are we to hitting our goal?

86%

Goal #1 Objectives

1.4 Increase the percentage of Limited English Proficient students who become proficient in the English language.

ESL Progress overall percentages 2008/09 = 13%

2011/12 = 20% (page 5)

Goal #1 Objectives

1.5 Increase the percentage of students who are proficient in Basic Skills while narrowing the proficiency gap across subgroups.

Basic Skills Progress overall percentages 2008/09 = 14%

2011/12 = 24%

Math

2008/09 = 29%

2011/12 = 31%

English

(pages 4 &5)

Achievement Gap Report

Any questions?

College Scorecards

State Chancellor’s Office Student Success Scorecards

Education Code, Section 84754.5(d)

Each community college district board of trustees shall review the Scorecard annually. The District will have one year from the release of the Scorecard report to submit the board minutes to the Chancellor’s Office as part of a regularly scheduled and noticed public meeting.

Transitional YearThis year the data in our Achievement Gap report and the State’s Scorecard do not match perfectly.

Next year our Achievement Gap report will be using data from the Scorecard

College Scorecards• Four broad domains

• One outcome measure • Three intermediate

progress indicators

• Two cohort tracks• Prepared• Unprepared

• Three cohort groups• Gender• Age Group• Ethnicity

When reviewing Scorecard data

2. Know your denominator

3. Know the base year for the cohort

4. Don’t compare colleges; look at trends for a single college over time

1. Read the definitions carefully

Persistence

30 Units

Completion

Basic Skills Remediation

CTE Completion

Contra Costa Community College District

State Average

English

Math

ESL

58.9% 65.8%

67.4% 66.4%

54.7% 49.2%

31.0% 38.1%

23.7% 25.9%

19.5% 23.6%

53.3% 55.0%

2002/03 2003/04 2004/05 2005/06 2006/070%

10%

20%

30%

40%

50%

60%

70%

61.3%

54.7%52.3%

49.2%

CCCCD District Colleges

State Community College Average

Five Year Trend in Overall Completion Rates

Three College Scorecards

College Scorecards

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