News:
02/29/2012:
Standardized Tests That Fail, by Paul Fain, Inside Higher Ed
01/19/2012:
Online Course Provider, StraighterLine, to Offer
Critical-Thinking Tests to Students, by Jeff Selingo, The
Chronicle of Higher Education, Wired Campus
01/10/2012:
Blackboard Opens Field Trial for Learning Analytics Solution,
PR Newswire, Reuters
12/01/2011:
Community Colleges Take Major Step in Defining Role,
Effectiveness, American Association of
Community Colleges (AACC)
10/17/2011:
EDUCAUSE Announces New Initiative to Advance Analytics at U.S.
Colleges and Universities, EDUCAUSE
10/17/2011:
WCET Predictive Analytics Reporting (PAR) Framework Project
Delivers Millions of Course Records for Review and Analysis,
PRWeb
10/03/2011:
AAC&U Launches Initiative on College Assessment, Completion,
by Matthew K. Tabor, Education News
09/15/2011:
SAT Scores Drop, Scott Jaschik, Inside Higher Ed
08/11/2011:
Elimination of California Agency Could Limit Access to Student
Data, by Josh Keller, The Chronicle of Higher Education,
Wired Campus
08/03/2011:
'Uneducated Guesses', by Scott Jaschik,
Inside Higher Ed
07/06/2011:
Maintenance Over Management: A Survey of Business Officers,
by Doug Lederman, Inside Higher Ed
06/15/2011:
FEBP Website Now Includes Higher Education Data for Every State
and Institution, by Jennifer Cohen, New America Foundation
05/16/2011:
WCET Awarded Bill & Melinda Gates Grant on Predictive Analytics,
by Russ Poulin, WCET Learn – Frontiers
05/08/2011:
The Rise of Teaching Machines, by Josh Fischman, The Digital
Campus
04/28/2011:
Reassess Assessment in America's Community Colleges, by
Katherine Hughes and Judith Scott-Clayton, Statesmen.com
03/08/2011:
Colleges Achieve Success with Achieving the Dream, by Robert
G. Templin, Jr. in Letter to the Editor, The Chronicle of Higher
Education
03/11/2011:
30 Community Colleges, including Entire L.A. Community College
District, Commit to Rigorous Student Success and Completion,
Achieving the Dream
02/09/2011: 'Achieving
the Dream' Produces Little Change at Community Colleges, by
Jennifer Gonzalez, The Chronicle of Higher Education
01/19/2011:
Complex Measures of Success, by David Moltz, Inside Higher Ed
01/11/2011:
Community Colleges in 29 States to Pilot New Accountability
System, American Association of Community Colleges
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Reports &
Articles:
National Institute for Outcomes Assessment Toolkit:
Providing Evidence of Student Learning: A Transparency
Framework
Assessment Examples & Tools,
Designed by Carnegie Mellon Faculty, Eberly Center for Teaching
Excellence, Carnegie Mellon Assessment Task Force
2010-2013:
Changing the Equation: Redesigning Developmental Math,
funded by the Gates Foundation, NCAT
04/15/2012:
Colleges Are Pressured to Open Up Student Data, by Nick
DeSantis, The Chronicle of Higher Education, Technology
04/12/2012:
IR is the Lynchpin in Demand for More Data, by Tabitha
Whissemore, Community College Times
04/07/2012:
Trying to Find a Measure for How Well Colleges Do, by
Richard Pérez-Peña, The New York Times
04/02/2012:
Measure Twice – Cut Once: Getting it Right with Assessment and
Placement, by Bruce Vandal, Getting Past Go
04/2012:
Institute Occasional Paper 14: An Essential Partner: The
Librarian’s Role in Student Learning Assessment, by Debra
Gilchrist and Megan Oakleaf, National Institute for Learning
Outcomes Assessment (NILOA)
03/29/2012:
Getting Ready for Online Assessment, by Tom Vander Ark,
HuffPost, Education
03/27/2012:
How Data Analysis Changed Our Recruitment Efforts, by Jim
McCarthy and Mary Sinibaldi, Northampton Community College
02/29/2012:
Fostering a Culture of Evidence, by Mary Grush, Campus
Technology
02/25/2012:
Do High-Stakes Placement Exams Predict College Success? (CCRC
Working Paper No. 41), by Judith Scott-Clayton,
Community College Research Center
02/03/2012:
A Framework for Evaluating the Technical Quality of Multiple
Measures Used in California Community College Placement, by
Rachel Lagunoff, Hillary Michaels, Patricia Morris, and Pamela
Yeagley, Chancellor’s Office, California Community Colleges
02/01/2012:
Big Data's Arrival, by Paul Fain, Inside Higher Ed
02/2012:
Predicting Success in College: The Importance of Placement Tests
and High School Transcripts (CCRC Working Paper No. 42) , by
Clive Belfield & Peter M. Crosta, Community College Research
Center
02/2012:
Do High-Stakes Placement Exams Predict College Success? (CCRC
Working Paper No. 41) , by Judith Scott-Clayton, Community
College Research Center
01/31/2012:
Are College Students Learning? ,by Jonathan Zimmerman, Los
Angeles Times, Opinion
01/23/2012:
Building Institutional Capacity for Data-Informed Decision
Making, Achieving the Dream, Public Agenda
01/09/2012:
Committing to Quality: Guidelines for Assessment and
Accountability in Higher Education, New Leadership Alliance
for Student Learning and Accountability
01/2012:
From Denial to Acceptance: The Stages of Assessment, by
Margaret A. Miller, (NILOA Occasional Paper No.13) University
for Illinois and Indiana University, National Institute for
Learning Outcomes Assessment
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CCRC
Assessment of Evidence Series
02/2011: Accelerating the
Academic Achievement of Students Referred to
Developmental Education, by
Nikki Edgecombe,
CCRC Working Paper No. 30
and 05/2011:
CCRC Brief No. 55
02/2011: Facilitating Student Learning Through
Contextualization, by Dolores Perin,
CCRC Working Paper No. 29 and 04/2011:
CCRC Brief No. 53
02/2011: Toward a New Understanding of Non-Academic
Student Support: Four Mechanisms Encouraging Positive
Student Outcomes in the Community College, by Melinda
Mechur Karp,
CCRC Working Paper No. 28 and
04/2011: How Non-Academic Supports Work: Four
Mechanisms for Improving Student Outcomes,
CCRC Brief No. 54
02/2011: Reforming Mathematics Classroom Pedagogy:
Evidence-Based Findings and Recommendations for the
Developmental Math Classroom, by
Michelle Hodara,
CCRC Working Paper No. 27 and Improving Pedagogy in
the Developmental Mathematics Classroom
CCRC Brief No. 51
02/2011: Assessing Developmental Assessment in Community
Colleges, by Katherine L. Hughes & Judith Scott-Clayton,
CCRC Working Paper No. 19 and
CCRC Brief No. 50
02/2011:
Introduction to the CCRC Assessment of Evidence Series,
by Thomas Bailey,
Shanna Smith Jaggars & Davis Jenkins
01/2011: Online Learning: Does It Help Low-Income and
Underprepared Students?, by
Shanna Smith Jaggars,
CCRC Working Paper No. 26 and 03/2011:
CCRC Brief No. 52
01/2011: The
Shapeless River: Does a Lack of Structure Inhibit
Students' Progress at Community Colleges?, by
Judith Scott-Clayton,
CCRC Working Paper No. 25
and The
Structure of Student Decision-Making at Community
Colleges
CCRC Brief No. 49
01/2011: Redesigning Community Colleges for Completion:
Lessons from Research on High-Performance Organizations,
by Davis Jenkins,
CCRC Working Paper No.24 and
CCRC Brief No. 48
01/20/2011: Press Release:
Strategies for Increasing Community College Student
Success Highlighted in New Series of Papers,
by Shanna Jaggars
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