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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