High-impact Educational
Practices: What are they?
Evelyn Waiwaiole
Program Manager,
High-Impact Practices
Jeff Crumpley
Associate Director
CCCSE
Center for Community College
Student Engagement
Identifying and Promoting High-Impact
Educational Practices in Community Colleges
 3 Year Initiative
 Funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
and Lumina Foundation
 Analyze data from four surveys
 Focus groups
 Institutes
 National Reports
 Initiative ends August, 2014
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CCCSE: Collecting Data from Many
Perspectives
Four surveys that complement one another:
 CCSSE
 CCFSSE
 SENSE
 CCIS
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CCCSE: Collecting Data from Many
Perspectives
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CCCSE: Collecting Data from Many
Perspectives
 Qualitative and quantitative data
 Surveys provide quantitative data.
 Focus groups from the Initiative on Student
Success and High-Impact Practice Initiative
provide qualitative data.
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CCCSE: Collecting Data from Many
Perspectives
Core surveys and special-focus items
 Core surveys are the same from year to year.
 Special-focus items examine a specific area and
change from year to year.
 Special-focus items for the 2011 and 2012 surveys
address promising practices for promoting student
success and completion.
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CCSSE High Impact
Practices Early Results
Promising Practices for Community
College Student Success
 Planning for Success: Assessment and Placement,
Orientation, Academic Goal Setting and Planning, and
Registration before Classes Begin
 Initiating Success: Accelerated or Fast-Track
Developmental Education, First-Year Experience, Student
Success Course, and Learning Community
 Sustaining Success: Class Attendance, Alert and
Intervention, Experiential Learning beyond the Classroom,
Tutoring, and Supplemental Instruction
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CCFSSE High Impact
Practices
CCFSSE Promising Practice Items combined
with Student responses
 11% of CCSSE respondents reported that they
registered for class after the first class session has
started.
 Yet, 62% of faculty responders say that at least
one student registered late for a class
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SENSE High Impact
Practices
SENSE Promising Practice Items
 Entering students and class attendance
All Instructors
Explain Class
Attendance
Policy
Class Attendance In
The First Three
Weeks
26%
23%
Not
Skipped
Skipped
YES
NO
77%
74%
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What students say about skipping class
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CCIS High Impact
Practices
CCIS, CCSSE, CCFSSE Promising Practices
Promising
Practice
Colleges
That Report
Having It
Students
Who Report
Doing It
Full-Time Faculty
Who Teach or
Facilitate
Orientation
96%
58%
13%
Student Success
Course
83%
24%
12%
First-Year
Experience
58%
26%
17%
Learning
Community
56%
13%
16%
Accelerated
Developmental
Education
42%
26%
14%
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Students are not always well-informed
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Supplemental Instruction
• Students who use it
19%
• Faculty who make it available
44%
• Colleges that offer it
87%
• New Trend?? - 14% of CCIS colleges
report mandatory SI for all developmental
education students
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A Student Speaks about SI
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CCIS High Impact
Practices
How does student
participation in these
promising practices show
up in CCSSE benchmark
scores?
2011 CCSSE Benchmark Scores by Registration –
Promising Practice Item #1
50.5
49.6
Active and
Collaborative
Learning
51.1
50.1
47.9
Student Effort
Registered for all
courses before the
first day of class
50.1 49.2
47.1
Academic
Challenge
Student-Faculty
Interaction
50.0
48.1
Support for
Learners
Registered late
Sources: 2011 CCSSE data
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2011 CCSSE Benchmark Scores by Orientation –
Promising Practice Item #2
52.3
52.8
52.3
47.8
47.2
53.4
52.7
47.8
47.7
45.7
Active and
Collaborative
Learning
Student Effort
Participated in
Orientation
Academic
Challenge
Student-Faculty
Interaction
Support for
Learners
Did not Participate
in Orientation
Sources: 2011 CCSSE data
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Views of Orientation
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2011 CCSSE Benchmark Scores by FYE –
Promising Practice Item #3
54.8
55.7
54.8
48.8
Active and
Collaborative
Learning
57.1
53.5
48.7
Student Effort
Participated in
First Year
Experience
49.7
Academic
Challenge
48.7
Student-Faculty
Interaction
47.6
Support for
Learners
Did not participate
in First Year
Experience
Sources: 2011 CCSSE data
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2011 CCSSE Benchmark Scores by Learning Comm. –
Promising Practice Item #4
59.1
58.6
59.4
56.8
54.6
49.0
Active and
Collaborative
Learning
49.3
Student Effort
Participated in
Learning
Community
50.0
Academic
Challenge
49.3
Student-Faculty
Interaction
48.7
Support for
Learners
Did not Participate
in Learning
Community
Sources: 2011 CCSSE data
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Impression of a first year learning community
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2011 CCSSE Benchmark Scores by SSC –
Promising Practice Item #5
57.8
56.1
54.9
55.9
53.9
48.9
Active and
Collaborative
Learning
48.5
Student Effort
Participated in
Student Success
Course
49.7
Academic
Challenge
48.8
Student-Faculty
Interaction
47.7
Support for
Learners
Did not Participate
in Student Success
Course
Sources: 2011 CCSSE data
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Student Success Courses
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High Impact Practices:
What comes next?
CCIS High Impact Practices:
Next steps
 Analysis of components inside of
each promising practice
 Analysis of the relationship
between each promising practice
and self-reported GPA
 Analysis of the relationship
between each promising practice
and student records
 Deeper looks at college specific
programs with successful results
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Questions ?
Visit Booth #209 in the
Exhibit Hall
Center for Community
College Student
Engagement
3316 Grandview Street
Austin, Texas 78705
Phone: 512-471-6687
www.ccsse.org