The California Community Colleges released a “Student Success Scorecard” on Tuesday to allow students and their families to compare colleges in the system based on student data. The scorecard—a recommendation of the system’s Student Success Task Force—provides completion and persistence rates, as well as data on how effectively colleges move students through remedial and career-technical courses on each of the system’s 112 campuses. Each measure is broken down by race, ethnicity, gender, and age. Students and families can also track transfer rates and “momentum points,” such as the percentage of students who complete 30 units—a milestone that is considered to be the halfway mark to transferring to a four-year institution.

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by Allie Bidwell, The Chronicle of Higher Education.

Posted: April 9th, 2013, by: admin. Categories: . Awaiting Comments.