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Direct linkBaldwin, Christopher; Bensimon, Estela Mara; Dowd, Alicia C.; Kleiman, Lisa – New Directions for Community Colleges, 2011
Student success is at the heart of both institutional effectiveness and the community college mission, yet measuring such success at community colleges is problematic. This article highlights three efforts to grapple with this problem--a multistate work group of system- and state-level policymakers to create an improved set of student success…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Institutional Evaluation, Measurement, Measurement Techniques
Hoffman, Allan M., Ed.; Spangehl, Stephen D., Ed. – Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., 2011
Rising costs and increasing global competition press institutions to do more with less. At the same time, deep budget cuts and a general social and political impatience have revived calls for reform in educational affordability, curriculum, and outcome measurement. Yet within this environment, a myriad of success stories are being forged among…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Higher Education, Pilot Projects, Colleges
Hoven, Debra; Palalas, Agnieszka – CALICO Journal, 2011
An exploratory study conducted at George Brown College in Toronto, Canada between 2007 and 2009 investigated language learning with mobile devices as an approach to augmenting ESP learning by taking learning outside the classroom into the real-world context. In common with findings at other community colleges, this study identified inadequate…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Constructivism (Learning), Listening Skills, Immigrants
Manning, Terri M.; Bostian, Brad – New Directions for Community Colleges, 2006
This chapter discusses how Central Piedmont Community College (CPCC) has used data from the National Community College Benchmark Project. Analysis of project benchmark data led to a review of high course-withdrawal rates and CPCC withdrawal policies as well as their effects on student program completion and within-term retention. As a result, the…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Data Analysis, Organizational Change, Community Colleges
