This is a report on the 2000-2001 admission of students under 18 by Arizona community colleges. The report states that students under 18 may be admitted if they have graduated from high school or have earned a high school graduate equivalency certificate (GED). Arizona community colleges may also admit students under 18 who have scored a 930 or…

This document details the recorded student data from the 48 institutions in the Illinois Community College System. Student data is collected twice during the fiscal year by the colleges--fall opening enrollments and end-of-fiscal-year annual student enrollment and completion figures. Report highlights include: (1) In 2001, Illinois community…

This document presents the results of a study performed in 2001 on student satisfaction at Johnson County Community College (JCCC) (Kansas). A survey was distributed in a sample of credit classes to help assess the Community College's overall effectiveness. A total of 587 student surveys were returned. Results indicate that: (1) most respondents…

This Institutional Effectiveness report for Piedmont Virginia Community College (PVCC) offers statistics comparing PVCC's performance with that of the entire Virginia Community College System (VCCS). Highlights of findings included in the report are: (1) the student advancement rate (those who are still enrolled in PVCC, those who have…

The 1998 High Schools That Work (HSTW) Assessment report contains good news for HSTW sites in the Appalachian Regional Commission area and provides information on specific practices that need improvement. This research brief summarizes the report's findings. Based on 196 schools in 9 Appalachian states, the report shows that school, district, and…

The National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) 1998 Civics Assessment found that 12th-graders who participated in volunteer service had higher scores than those who did not. Furthermore, 12th-graders who worked 6 to 15 hours a week had higher scores than those who either worked longer hours or did not work at all. (Contains two tables and…

This document discusses institutional effectiveness at Florence-Darlington Technical College (FDTC) (South Carolina) for the 2000-2001 academic year. Full and/or interim report summaries are provided for advising procedures, library resources, and for the following departments: Accounting, Automated Office, Office Systems Technology, Health Care…

This document is an overview of the results of the statewide Partnership for Excellence (PFE) program at Cuesta College (California). The PFE program is designed to improve the performance and services of the 108 California community colleges. The PFE program emphasizes five main goals for Cuesta: (1) an increase from 55,149 in 1998-99 to 78,582…

This report presents the 2000-2001 results of Santa Fe Community College's (SFCC) (Florida) annual survey of outgoing students' opinions and perceptions of their educational experiences and institutional services. Responses were received from 2,397 students, all of whom were candidates for graduation in associate and certificate programs. The 10…

Ensuring that language tests for adult English language learners are appropriate, valid, and reliable is a challenge. Performance-based assessments are complex to develop and implement. Yet, because the focus of assessment, both in the National Reporting System for Adult Education (NRS) descriptors and in the Department of Education's definition…

In March 1996, the Consortium on Chicago School Research (CCSR) proposed to evaluate the Chicago Annenberg Challenge's (CAC) newly funded reform efforts in the Chicago public schools. The evaluation aimed to understand how schools involved in CAC efforts developed as organizations and, in turn, how these developments benefited students. The study…

This report, the second in a series published by the National Council on Teacher Quality, examines states' progress in meeting the new federal requirement that by the end of the 2005-2006 school year there will be a "highly qualified teacher" in every classroom in the nation. This new requirement has led to some discomfort in more than a…

In response to a proposal request from the state, Achieve reviewed the draft of Maryland's Pre-K-8 Voluntary State Curriculum (VSC) in Science (dated May 2004). This preliminary report summarizes their findings and also reflects the discussion that followed their presentation to representatives of the Maryland State Department of Education on…

At the request of the Superintendent of the Montgomery County, Maryland, Public School System (MCPS), Achieve conducted an evaluation of the MCPS K-12 Curriculum Frameworks and high school semester exams in English and mathematics. The review was designed to determine how well the MCPS Frameworks and exams align with Maryland state academic…

This report portrays the enrollment, placement, achievement, and persistence of entering students. Thus this report presents first the basic skills needs for the fall 2004 cohort of first-time enrolling students from Colorado public high schools, disaggregated by school district and high school. Second, this report presents two years' data on…