College of San Mateo Delivery Mode Course Comparison (02/23/2012)
Distance Education vs. Traditional Mode
Student Success Indicators: Fall 2008, Fall 2009, Fall 2010
READ 830 College and Career Reading (3.0 Units), Online Mode
Part I—Summary: Enrollment and Student Outcomes
# Sections
#Enrollments
% Success
% Retention
Fall 2008
Distance
Traditional
0
4
0
112
74.1
78.6
Fall 2009
Distance
Traditional
1
3
27
79
63
74.1
88.9
77.2
Fall 2010
Distance
Traditional
1
3
25
83
68
77.1
68
84.3
Total
Distance
2
52
65.4
78.8
Traditional
10
274
71.2
79.9
Part II—Demographic Profile: Enrollment and Student Outcomes
Distance
Demographic
Variable
Traditional
Distance
Traditional
Count
%
Count
%
Success
Retention
%
Success
%
Retention
Success
Retention
%
Success
%
Retention
Ethnicity
Asian
Black
Filipino
Hispanic
Native Am
Pac Islander
White
Other
Unrecorded
Total
9
3
1
17
0
2
16
2
2
52
17.3
5.8
1.9
32.7
0.0
3.8
30.8
3.8
3.8
100
34
12
22
104
2
10
45
14
31
274
12.4
4.4
8
38
0.7
3.6
16.4
5.1
11.3
100
9
3
1
10
0
0
9
1
1
34
9
3
1
14
0
1
11
1
1
41
100.0
100.0
100.0
58.8
0.0
0.0
56.2
50.0
50.0
65.4
100.0
100.0
100.0
82.4
0.0
50.0
68.7
50.0
50.0
78.8
24
9
13
69
2
8
36
10
24
195
27
11
14
80
2
9
38
13
25
219
70.6
75.0
59.1
66.3
100.0
80.0
80.0
71.4
77.4
71.2
79.4
91.7
63.6
76.9
100.0
90.0
84.4
92.9
80.6
79.9
Gender
Female
Male
Unrecorded
Total
38
12
2
52
73.1
23.1
3.8
100
144
115
15
274
52.6
42
5.5
100
25
9
0
34
30
11
0
41
65.8
75.0
0.0
65.4
78.9
91.7
0.0
78.8
103
80
12
195
115
90
14
219
71.5
69.6
80.0
71.2
79.9
78.3
93.3
79.9
Age
19 or less
20-24
25-29
30-34
35-39
40-49
50+
Unrecorded
Total
15
10
14
7
2
3
1
0
52
28.8
19.2
26.9
13.5
3.8
5.8
1.9
0.0
100
126
54
29
15
14
17
8
11
274
46
19.7
10.6
5.5
5.1
6.2
2.9
4
100
9
6
9
5
2
3
0
0
34
11
7
12
6
2
3
0
0
41
60.0
60.0
64.3
71.4
100.0
100.0
0.0
0.0
65.4
73.3
70.0
85.7
85.7
100.0
100.0
0.0
0.0
78.8
85
34
25
8
13
13
7
10
195
95
42
28
10
13
14
7
10
219
67.5
63.0
86.2
53.3
92.9
76.5
87.5
90.9
71.2
75.4
77.8
96.6
66.7
92.9
82.4
87.5
90.9
79.9
DEFINITIONS AND NOTES:
Distance course not offered Fall
2008.
Overview of Data: This is a
delivery-mode comparison of
student success in online courses
with their traditional mode
counterparts, if offered.
The comparison spans Fall
semesters only: F08, F’09, F’10.
Part I: Enrollment & Student
Outcomes
Displays summary data of total
enrollment, numbers of sections
offered, retention, and success.
Part II: Demographic Profile
Displays comparative
demographic data aggregated
with retention and success data.
This includes totals for all Fall
semesters combined.
Enrollments: Indicates a
duplicated headcount that is the
sum of end-of-term enrollments.
Retention %: The percentage of
enrollments with a grade of A, B,
C, D, F, P, NP, I, at end-of-term.
(Only excludes W’s.)
Success %: Also known as
“successful course completion.”
The percentage of enrollments
with a grade of A, B, C, P at endof-term.”
(*) Indicates no distance course
offered and no comparison
Prepared by the Office of Planning,
Research, and Institutional
Effectiveness (PRIE)
collegeofsanmateo.edu/prie
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