Community College Survey of Student Engagement

JIM Meeting Presentation

January 20, 2009

Jerome Ward

Director, Institutional Research

Cochise College

Committing to Student Engagement at Cochise College

2008 Findings

Research shows that the more actively

engaged students are – with faculty and

staff, with other students – the more likely

they are to learn, to stick with their studies,

and to attain their academic goals.

Why CCSSE ?Why CCSSE ?

CCSSE:CCSSE: A Tool for Improvement A Tool for Improvement

• CCSSE helps us:– Assess quality in community college

education– Identify and learn from good educational

practices– Identify areas in which we can improve

CCSSE:CCSSE: A Tool for Accountability A Tool for Accountability

• CCSSE:– Provides reliable data on issues

that matter– Reports data publicly– Is committed to using data for

improvement

• CCSSE opposes using its data to rank

colleges.ranking

CCSSE:CCSSE: A Tool for Community A Tool for Community CollegesColleges

• CCSSE data analyses include a three-year cohort of participating colleges.

– The 2008 CCSSE Cohort includes almost 344,000 community college students from 585 institutions in 48 states, Canada, and the Marshall Islands.

CCSSE Benchmarks

CCSSE CCSSE Benchmarks for Effective Benchmarks for Effective Educational PracticeEducational Practice

• There are five CCSSE benchmarks:

– Active and Collaborative Learning– Student Effort– Academic Challenge– Student-Faculty Interaction– Support for Learners

CCSSE CCSSE Benchmarks for Effective Benchmarks for Effective Educational PracticeEducational Practice

Benchmark ScoresBenchmark Scores

Academic ChallengeAcademic Challenge

Benchmark Scores Benchmark Scores Full-time vs. Part-time

Student Satisfaction•96% of all students indicated that they would recommend Cochise College to a friend or family member.•89% of all students rated their educational experience at Cochise College as good or excellent.

Student Support•80% of all students indicated that their friends were quite a bit or extremely supportive of them attending Cochise, while 90% indicated that their families were.

Taking classes elsewhere•17% of all students indicated that they were taking between one to more than four classes at schools besides at Cochise.

Student TrendsStudent Trends

Barriers to PersistenceBarriers to Persistence

Student-Faculty InteractionsStudent-Faculty Interactions

2008 CCFSSE Findings

2008 2008 CCFSSE CCFSSE FindingsFindings

• CCFSSE:

– Elicits information from faculty about their teaching practices, the ways they spend their professional time both in and out of class, and their perceptions regarding students’ educational experiences

– Is aligned with CCSSE to allow colleges to contrast student and faculty perceptions

Effective Educational Practices:Effective Educational Practices:Student and Faculty ResponsesStudent and Faculty Responses

How Faculty Members How Faculty Members Use Class TimeUse Class Time

• 82% of faculty say they spend less than half of their class time lecturing

• 53% of faculty allocate less than 10% of their classes to small group activities

• 88% of faculty report spending less than 20% of their class time on in-class writing

• Compared nationally, Cochise faculty are twice as likely to devote more than half the class time to hands-on practice

How Faculty Members How Faculty Members Use Class TimeUse Class Time

•In your selected course section, on average, what percentage of class time is spent on each of these activities?

0% 1–19% 20–49% 50–74% 75–100%

Lecture 4% 39% 40% 10% 8%

Teacher-led discussion 3% 45% 37% 11% 3%

Teacher-student shared responsibility 17% 45% 28% 6% 4%

Small group activities 20% 51% 23% 4% 1%

Student presentations 28% 56% 11% 3% 3%

In-class writing 51% 37% 10% 1% 1%

Experiential 64% 24% 7% 5% 1%

Hands-on practice 18% 32% 21% 14% 16%

Note: Percentages may not total 100% due to rounding.

Community College Survey of Student Engagement

For more information visit:

CCSSE online:www.ccsse.org

And Institutional Research online:http://www.cochise.edu/deptsdirs/institutionalresrc/index.asp