LACCD Student Success Initiative Steering Committee,
Achieving the Dream, & L.A. Southwest College Present:
Summit #1
Placement for Success: Implementing Multiple Measures
Los Angeles Southwest College
October 30, 2015
9:00am-3:00pm
KEYNOTE: JOHN HETTS, SENIOR DIRECTOR OF DATA SCIENCE AT
EDUCATIONAL RESULTS PARTNERSHIP
CAMPUS DISCUSSION: L.A. VALLEY COLLEGE & L.A. SOUTHWEST COLLEGE
Welcome!
Mission
Develop leaders in California community colleges who
have the capacity to facilitate networks of faculty, staff,
and students for curricular and institutional redesigns in
support of increased student access, success, equity,
and completion.
Theory of Change
If we provide training on
networking and we use action
research methodologies, community
college professionals will transform
their environments and identities to
create communities of practice that
will produce powerful learning and
working across campuses. This will
lead to greater student success.
Building Networks that Work
•Identifying a Shared Problem
•Creating a Shared Vision of the Possible
for Addressing It
•Building a Sustained Community of
Practitioners Focusing on This Problem
California Community Colleges’ Success Network
Ice Breaker Activity (handout)
1. What brings you here today to the Placement for
Success summit?
2. What do you hope to learn about these programs?
3. What do you want people on your campus to learn or
understand about multiple measures?
4. In what ways are you connected to professional learning on
your campus?
• Briefly describe your campus’s current Assessment and
Placement program(s) goals for this academic year?
• What role does professional leaning play in your goals for
this year?
Pair & Share!
•Meet someone new and share your
responses, including your goals for this
year
•Introduce your colleagues & share out
one “take away” you heard from someone
else
Goals for the Day
• Gain an understanding of the recent research on the
effects of assessment and placement practices on
community college students
• Learn about the experiences of those campuses that are
piloting multiple measures and what that means
• Develop a plan to take back to your campus to either
start or further the discussion of using multiple
measures
• What else?
Read Together Activity
“Community colleges sending too many into
remedial math” San Francisco Chronicle
By Eloy Ortiz Oakley and Pamela Burdman,
May 29, 2015
Think, Pair, Share
•Read: Read the op-ed piece
•Pair: With one other person
•Share: Share your thoughts on the reading and
discuss the reading questions
–a) Initial thoughts about the “under placement” of
community college students into remedial level
courses?
–b) What are the concerns you or others may have
about considering students’ high school
grades/transcripts?
BREAK-10 min
Spotlight Presentation:
John Hetts, Ph.D.
Senior Director of Data Science at
Educational Results Partnership
Take a moment to get some
LUNCH!!
Panel Discussion:
Irvine Valley College
L.A. Southwest College
L.A. Valley College
Saddleback College
Panel Discussion:
•What initial steps did you take in implementing
the MMAP design (is the campus pilot for math
and/or English)
•Who was part of this implementation, i.e.
committees, departments, etc.?
•What challenges have you encountered so far?
•What benefits have you seen so far?
Synthesis Activity: Survey Results
 There were 22 participants in the survey
 Majority were faculty members: 65%
 Results from questions regarding changes on
campus, participant’s perceptions around multiple
measures in assessment/placement, and the role
of professional development will be displayed.
 Thank you to those who completed survey!
Survey Results: Campus changes
Survey Results: Types of Campus
Changes
• Refresher Courses
• Writing sample
• Retaking
assessment
• Lowered cut scores
• Accuplacer
• Self-Reporting
• Self-placing (pilot
phase)
• Embedded noncognitive factors
Survey Results: Discussions on
Assessment/Placement
Academic Senate: 25%
Student Services Department: 50%
SSSP committee: 65%
Equity committee: 40%
Basic Skills committee: 65%
Special committee: 10%
English Department meetings: 65%
Math Department meetings: 70%
I am not sure: 15%
Survey Results: Perceptions
• “(Students) feel it is inaccurate because it is only
one criteria assessed one time.”
• “I think that there should be multiple measures
but no more than 3 so that students have a
chance to better represent their skills.”
• “Multiple measures would look at high school
GPA and grade in senior English class.”
Synthesis Activity Worksheet
1. Use your worksheet
to reflect on the
results of the
participant survey &
presentations
2. Find a new partner
and share your
thoughts
3. Large group discussion
-Please turn in the activity sheet
Team Time: Dreaming and
Planning
 Get together with your campus colleagues
 Take 10 minutes to discuss: How can we change
our practice? Where would we start?
 Campuses fill out the “who/what mapping”
Looking ahead
 Take-away(s) from the group
 Next Steps: How can we keep the dialogue
going?
 What are possible events/trainings and
professional learning events would you like to
see?
 November 20th –Summit#2 Welcoming Students
to your campus: Innovations in SSSP & Equity
Wrap-up, Feedback, and Evaluations
•Any feedback to share? Or questions?
•Upcoming Los Angeles area 3CSN
events
•Don’t forget your Evaluations!!
THANK YOU
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