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

Putting Learning at the Center: Looking Ahead to the Next Decade of Community College Reform

Community College of Baltimore County Symposium for Developmental Education/General Education
August 22, 2019
Baltimore, MD

In this talk, CCRC's Susan Bickerstaff invited faculty to consider the strides the field has made over the last decade in its thinking on developmental education. Ten years ago, the problem of a multi-course sequence was only recently identified, the best solutions were not obvious, and scaling up promising practices was a major preoccupation. Today, the field has coalesced around a set of best practices—including co-requisite remediation, mathematics pathways, and placement reform—and in many contexts, those approaches are being implemented at scale. Bickerstaff argued that the great challenge in the next decade of reform will be to put learning at the center of our institutional improvement efforts. This will require institutional commitment to an assessment process that yields usable information for faculty, strong curricular materials aligned with student learning goals and evidence-based instructional practices, and a multi-faceted support system that helps faculty evaluate and improve their teaching. Bickerstaff drew on examples from K–12 and CCRC research to imagine what the community college reform landscape might look like 10 years in the future.

Participants

Senior Research Associate
Community College Research Center