Chabot College
Course Success and Withdrawal Rates
Students with and without Learning Connection tutoring in same course*
Fall 2009 through Spring 2011
Selected high-enrollment courses across the curriculum
Students who used Learning Connection tutoring services in the last few years have had higher success rates
and lower withdrawal rates than students in the same course who did not use these services. The table below
shows higher success rates for many of the major high-enrollment basic skills and general education courses.
The Learning Connection includes the following lab centers that provide direct tutoring to students: Peer,
Academic Tutoring Help (PATH) Center, the Writing and Reading Across the Curriculum (WRAC) Center,
the Math Lab, the Language Center, and the World Languages Center. Students could have received
tutoring in any of the centers, and they were compared to students in the same section who had not received
any tutoring. Higher success rates mean that more students can go on to the next course rather than repeating
the course and preventing others from taking it. This increases the number of students that Chabot can serve
as well as the number of students who can succeed, persist, graduate, and transfer.
ANATOMY
1
BIOLOGY
31
BUSINESS
1A
CHEMISTRY
31
COMM ST
1
ENGLISH
101B
ENGLISH
102
ENGLISH
1A
HEALTH
1
GEOGRAPHY 1
HISTORY
7
MATH
103
MATH
40
MATH
43
MATH
1
PSYCH
1
SOCIOLOGY 1
TOTAL
Learning Connection tutoring
No tutoring
Learning Connection tutoring
No tutoring
Learning Connection tutoring
No tutoring
Learning Connection tutoring
No tutoring
Learning Connection tutoring
No tutoring
Learning Connection tutoring
No tutoring
Learning Connection tutoring
No tutoring
Learning Connection tutoring
No tutoring
Learning Connection tutoring
No tutoring
Learning Connection tutoring
No tutoring
Learning Connection tutoring
No tutoring
Learning Connection tutoring
No tutoring
Learning Connection tutoring
No tutoring
Learning Connection tutoring
No tutoring
Learning Connection tutoring
No tutoring
Learning Connection tutoring
No tutoring
Learning Connection tutoring
No tutoring
Learning Connection tutoring
No tutoring
Success
Pct
80%
74%
53%
48%
67%
51%
68%
59%
94%
71%
72%
63%
73%
63%
74%
66%
79%
70%
89%
66%
68%
53%
58%
32%
69%
53%
61%
54%
53%
48%
78%
67%
87%
69%
Non-success Withdrawal
Pct
Pct
13%
7%
9%
17%
38%
9%
24%
27%
16%
17%
15%
35%
21%
11%
17%
24%
6%
0%
16%
13%
19%
9%
21%
16%
18%
9%
20%
17%
13%
13%
16%
18%
18%
3%
18%
12%
7%
5%
23%
11%
24%
8%
20%
27%
31%
11%
40%
28%
9%
23%
21%
26%
18%
21%
19%
27%
21%
25%
21%
30%
19%
4%
21%
12%
4%
9%
17%
14%
Num
145
363
47
623
58
775
38
257
79
639
58
597
133
1,801
168
2,075
34
1,579
61
894
66
1,348
36
134
35
188
476
961
161
205
54
1,181
23
772
1,672
14,392
*Learning Connection tutoring could take place in any center (PATH, WRAC, Math, Language, or World Languages Lab)
NOTE: Spring 11 Tutoring data includes only WRAC, Language Lab, and World Language Lab tutoring.
*Success rates are from sections that had both students who were and were not tutored. **May not add to 100% due to rounding
*Success = a grade of 'A', 'B', 'C', 'CR', or 'P' ; Non-success = a grade of 'D', 'F', 'I', 'NC', or 'NP'; Withdrawal= 'W' or 'MW'.
Chabot College Office of Institutional Research
Total
Pct**
100%
100%
100%
99%
100%
101%
100%
100%
100%
100%
100%
100%
100%
100%
100%
100%
100%
100%
101%
100%
100%
100%
100%
100%
101%
100%
100%
100%
99%
99%
100%
100%
100%
100%