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

Understanding the Ecosystem of Institutional Change: How Colleges are Leveraging Technology to Provide Holistic Student Support

Association of American Colleges & Universities Annual Meeting
January 25, 2019
Atlanta, GA

The drive to increase completion rates is nearly universal on college campuses today. But the kinds of improvements necessary to significantly impact completion rates often require widespread institutional change. Comprehensive reforms to advising and student support that leverage technologies such as degree planning tools, early alert systems, and case management platforms have the potential to spur this type of change, but a number of factors can hinder their successful adoption. Using ecological systems theory to explore how change occurs from the macro-level—shaping the broad political and cultural environment in which colleges operate—all the way down to micro-level interactions between professors, advisors, and students, this session presented case studies of two community colleges and two broad-access universities undertaking technology-mediated advising reforms. The session also provided an opportunity for participants to discuss implications for understanding barriers to and facilitators of change at their own institutions.

Associated Papers

Participants

Research Associate
Community College Research Center
Lauren Pellegrino
Senior Research Associate
Community College Research Center

Associated Project(s)