Upcoming Presentations

2024 CSCC Annual Conference

April 18–20, 2024
Pittsburgh, PA

Developing Self-Directed Learning Skills in the Online Classroom: Importance and Strategies

April 19, 8:00–9:15 AM

Self-directed learning (SDL) skills and mindsets like self-efficacy, help seeking, and goal-setting are considered malleable factors for learning. Drawing on survey data and faculty interviews, we present evidence about their predictive validity with academic outcomes and strategies for promoting the development of these skills in online courses in community colleges.

Presenters

Jorge Mahecha, Research Associate, CCRC

Ellen Wasserman, Research Associate, CCRC

Access to Success: Insights and Strategies in Implementing Multiple Measures Assessment

April 20, 12:30–1:45 PM

CAPR, with support from Ascendium Education Group, are assisting colleges and states nationwide in the adoption and implementation of MMA practices that place more students, and allow more students to be successful, in college-level courses. This presentation summarizes insights derived from this work, focusing on the adoption of multiple measures assessment in open-access colleges in Arkansas and Texas. During the presentation, researchers will present cost analysis findings, explore supporting factors for implementation, and delve into specific strategies used by colleges to tackle common implementation challenges.

Presenters

Elizabeth Kopko, Senior Research Associate, CCRC

Dan Cullinan, Senior Associate, MDRC

Early College as a Postsecondary Success Strategy

April 24
Webinar

Emerging Student Assessment and Placement Systems

February 22, 2018
Nashville, TN

Researchers from CCRC and MDRC, who co-lead the Center for the Analysis of Postsecondary Readiness, are currently investigating the effects of alternative assessment and placement strategies on students’ academic performance, persistence, and progress toward college degrees using randomized control studies.

In this session, the presenters first explained why there is a need to change assessment and placement practices and shared information on approaches to developing and testing alternative strategies based on data analytics. Next, the presenters asked participants to engage in and discuss a short self-assessment of the conditions at their college that would support or hinder the implementation of an alternative assessment and placement system. Finally, representatives of two colleges discussed the way their institutions arrived at a decision to participate in these projects as well as their initial impressions of how the new assessment and placement systems have been experienced by college personnel and students.

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Participants

Senior Research Scholar Emeritus
Community College Research Center
Dan Cullinan
Research Associate
MDRC
Andrew Nesset
Dean of English, English for Speakers of Other Languages, Reading, Student Success, Mathematics, Education, and Career Studies
Century College
Naomi Stewart
Program Coordinator
Onondaga Community College

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