2014 day of vision evaluation summary report...

2014 Day of Vision Evaluation Summary Report

December 4, 2014 Institutional Research and Assessment

Tulsa Community College

T C C I n s t i t u t i o n a l R e s e a r c h a n d A s s e s s m e n t , D e c e m b e r 2 0 1 4

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Fall 2014 Day of Vision Evaluation

Executive Summary Results of the November 1, 2014, Day of Vision evaluations are presented below. The evaluation

instrument consisted of one survey with three sections—first section for all to complete, second section

for students to complete, and third section for parents to complete. The survey included three

demographic questions, two yes/no items, four event evaluation items, using a four-point Likert-type

scale, and one open-ended question to allow for comments. Additionally, respondents were provided a

list of sessions for session attendance identification with a blank line to record the session they found

most useful (copy of survey attached in Appendix). Responses include 219 students and 174 parents.

Findings indicated the following:

Respondents were highly satisfied with the overall experience. More than 90% of respondents

(91% students, 99% parents) reported they either “Liked it” (55% students, 65% parents) or

“Loved it” (36% students, 34% parents). Of those who provided a response to each question,

98% of student respondents and 100% of parent respondents indicated that they would

recommend the program to others, while 97% of students and 99% of parents indicated that the

program met their expectations.

A majority of respondents indicated satisfaction with the break-out sessions. The student

sessions were well-regarded, with 83% of student respondents indicating they either liked (57%)

or loved (26%) these sessions. Parents were very pleased with their sessions, with 97%

indicating they either liked (64%) or loved (33%) the session offerings. Parents rated the

financial aid information at 97%, with respondents indicating they either liked (67%) or loved

(30%) this session.

With regard to the Tables of Interest, 71% of students either liked (54%) or loved (17%) the

information provided. Parents responded slightly higher with 73% indicating they liked (59%) or

loved (14%) the information provided.

Students made up 56% of the combined respondent pool. Among students, attendance was

primarily older students with the following breakdown: 9th graders (12%), 10th graders (16%),

11th graders (34%), and 12th graders (35%), with another 4% that selected “other.” These

included a 7th grader, five 8th graders, and one in college.


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A majority of student respondents were female (55%). Males made up 45% of the respondent

pool. The parent group was comprised of 69% female respondents compared to 30% for males.

One percent elected not to respond.

Two sessions were repeatedly listed by student respondents as the most useful: Show Me the

Money – Scholarship Essay and ACT – Test Preparation. The parent respondents selected Tulsa

Achieves as the most useful session, followed by Preparing Your Child for College. A number of

students and parents indicated that they enjoyed both sessions that they attended.

As to suggestions for improvement, several student respondents gave some variation of “It

great how it is,” “It was a wonderful learning experience,” or “Nothing, honestly, really

enjoyable” as a response. The word “more” appeared in a number of responses: as in, “More

sessions,” “More time in class,” “More tables of interest” and other responses generally

indicating a desire for more exposure to the Day of Vision material. Student respondents also

expressed an interest in financial advice. Some participants suggested interactive or hands-on

activities, better navigation on campus, and having counselors to talk to.

Parent respondents made comments such as, “Very informative, I learned a lot,” “Everything is

perfect” and “Nothing, very well organized.” The word “more” appeared in the parent section as

well, as in “More tables of interest,” “Would like to attend more sessions,” and “More time in

break-out sessions.” Some participants suggested information on concurrent enrollment for

students, handouts with bullet points, and one-on-one Q&A time.

Results of the student and parent Day of Vision surveys are depicted in the following tables and graphs.


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Student Results

Results of Fall 2014 Day of Vision Evaluation Total STUDENT Respondents (N=219)

Rating Item Didn’t Attend

Didn’t Like It

So-So Liked It Loved

It No

Response

Student Break-out Sessions 15% 0% 14% 47% 22% 2%

Tables of Interest 19% 4% 18% 40% 13% 6%

Financial Aid Information 40% 0% 12% 32% 13% 3%

Overall Experience 3% 1% 8% 53% 34% 1%

NOTE: Rows may not sum to 100% due to rounding.

Results of Fall 2014 Day of Vision STUDENT Evaluation - Adjusted Results*

Rating Item Didn’t Like It

So-So Liked It Loved

It

Student Break-out Sessions 0% 17% 57% 26%

Tables of Interest 5% 24% 54% 17%

Financial Aid Information 0% 21% 57% 22%

Overall Experience 1% 9% 55% 36%

NOTE: Rows may not sum to 100% due to rounding. * Adjusted results exclude “No Response” and “Didn’t Attend.”

NOTE: Numbers may not sum to 100% due to rounding.

Yes 95%

No 3%

No Response

2%

My expectations for the program were met (students)

Yes 95%

No 2%

No Response

3%

I would recommend TCC's Day of Vision to others (students)


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Student Demographics

Student Year in High School (self-reported)

NOTE: Columns may not sum to 100% due to rounding.

Student Gender

Number Percent

Male 99 45%

Female 120 55%

Total Respondents 219 100% NOTE: Columns may not sum to 100% due to rounding.

Number Percent

9th Grade 26 12%

10th Grade 35 16%

11th Grade 74 34%

12th Grade 76 35%

Other 8 4%

Total Respondents 219 100%

9th Grade 10thGrade

11thGrade

12thGrade

Other

12%

16%

34% 35%

4%

Male 45%

Female 55%


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Student Ethnicity

Number Percent American Indian or Alaska Native 16 7%

Asian 11 5%

Black or African American 30 14%

Hispanic/Latino 34 16%

Native Hawaiian or other Pacific Islander 0 0%

White 103 47%

Two or more races 25 11%


Which break-out sessions did you (student) attend?

Session Title (in alphabetical order) Attendance

(up to two per student)

Percentage

1. ACT - Test Preparation 64 16%

2. Advice to Prepare You to Have a Successful Academic Life 22 5%

3. Career Choice: It’s a Major Decision 24 6%

4. Careers with Kids 17 4%

5. Destiny for the Many Sides of Me 8 2%

6. Fast Forward – Now You’re in College! 9 2%

7. Financial Aid: How and When Do I Apply for Financial Aid? 50 12%

8. Health Professions: Educating Future Caregivers 11 3%

9. I Doubt It: How to Spot Questionable Quotes on Social Media 0 0%

10. Media Careers in the Digital Age 17 4%

11. Myths about College Reading 3 1%

12. Preparing for College Mathematics 14 3%

13. Show Me the Money – Scholarship Essay 36 9%

14. STEM Diversity (Science, Tech, Engrg & Math) 35 9%

15. Success in Learning a Foreign Language 14 3%

16. Stress Management: How to Handle College 21 5%

17. TCC’s Sign Language Interpreting Program 7 2%

18. Tips for Taking the College Placement Test 2 < 0%

19. What You Don’t Know Yet About College 26 6%

20. Writing for Success in College 27 7%

Total Sessions Indicated 407 100% NOTE: Columns may not sum to 100% due to rounding.

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Which sessions did you (student) find most useful?

Show Me the Money – Scholarship Essay (20)

ACT - Test Preparation (19)

STEM Diversity (Science, Tech, Engrg & Math) (9)

What You Don’t Know Yet About College (8)

Writing for Success in College (8)

Success in Learning a Foreign Language (7)

Career Choice: It’s a Major Decision (6)

Advice to Prepare You to Have a Successful Academic Life (5)

Financial Aid: How and When Do I Apply for Financial Aid? (5)

Careers with Kids (4)

Stress Management: How to Handle College (4)

Preparing for College Mathematics (3)

Health Professions: Educating Future Caregivers (2)

TCC’s Sign Language Interpreting Program (2)

Destiny for the Many Sides of Me (1)

Fast Forward – Now You’re in College! (1)

Media Careers in the Digital Age (1)

Myths about College Reading (1)

Tips for Taking the College Placement Test (1)

I Doubt It: How to Spot Questionable Quotes on Social Media


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What would improve this event? (student perspective)

A bit longer sessions ACT Study Guides and more detailed course descriptions-I wanted Digital Media, I got

journalism

Added more sessions

Be able to attend 3 or 4 sessions

Being able to attend more than two sessions

Consider adding programs showing student what classes offer arts or broaden selection.

Directions during the STEM session, have the speaker talk more of the technology side of it (ex.

Computer Science)

Enthusiastic, awesome teachers like [name removed] who made her session easy and fun!

Everything was great!

Explaining

Explaining scholarships for careers

Fine the way it is now

Food

Getting to know the people who attended

Having more and enough room for everybody in every class or session.

Having more counselors to talk to

Having say first or second year TCC students give insight on how the first year is

helping us sign up for financial aid

I believe that everyone did a good job! I wish I could've seen more presentations

I did understand but it was a little hard

I didn't arrive with any expectations, so I was not disappointed. :) It was fun.

I don't know

I think kids need a bigger variety of places to go

I thought it was all great.

I would make sure to have a volunteer for each program

If they catered more to the top of the class and not the bottom

It was a wonderful learning experience

It was amazing? Nothing

It's great how it is

Later in the day (2)

Learning more about what we need to do to be college ready

Less talking more showing

Longer sessions Make break-out sessions more hands on. There needs to be less lecturing and more

interaction

Maybe a practice ACT for the ACT prep

Maybe the tables of interest they weren't really that interesting

More / [?] teachers about engineering

More food (2)

More fun

More information (3) More or just hands on activity. I am very hands on therefore I was very fidgety throughout

the lecture.

More people allowed to come and enjoy the experience

More resources about financial aid and after college life.

More session opportunities

More sessions (2)


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More sessions to choose from

More specialized classes; numbers permitting

More specialized information on STEM areas

More summarized info in physical form (paper)

More supervisors per event

More tables of interest (3)

More talking less joking around. More important topics

more time in class / smaller classes

More time in each session

More time in the classes

More time in the sessions

More variations of the "tables of interest"

n/a

None (2)

Nothing (3)

Nothing :)

Nothing everything is great! :)

Nothing honestly; really enjoyable

Nothing really

Nothing that I have seen so far needs improving

Nothing, I enjoyed everything each class had to say

Presenters should interact more with students

Psychology, neuroscience, etc.

Shorter breakouts with the opportunity to take 3 sessions for only 20-30 minutes

Signs on how to get to the next section

Sorry I don't know

Start it later in the day. Otherwise the information is pretty good.

Talk more about scholarships

Talk to people to figure out your future field

Telling student about what frat houses there are.

That it is a learning experience for everyone

The only thing is less of a scare of trying to find places.

The start you didn't have anything to do

Three break-out sessions instead of 2.

Timing

Tour of facilities

Websites with more information or helpful tools pertaining to the class


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Parent Results

Results of Fall 2014 Day of Vision Evaluation Total PARENT Respondents (N=174)

Rating Item Didn’t Attend

Didn’t Like It

So-So Liked

It Loved

It No

Response

Parent Break-out Sessions 6% 0% 2% 56% 29% 6%

Financial Aid Information 36% 0% 2% 41% 18% 3%

Tables of Interest 20% 1% 19% 43% 10% 8%

Overall Experience 0% 0% 1% 62% 32% 5%

NOTE: Rows may not sum to 100% due to rounding.

Results of Fall 2014 Day of Vision PARENT Evaluation - Adjusted Results*

Rating Item Didn’t Like it

So-So Liked

It Loved

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Parent Break-out Sessions 0% 3% 64% 33%

Financial Aid Information 0% 3% 67% 30%

Tables of Interest 1% 26% 59% 14%

Overall Experience 0% 1% 65% 34%

NOTE: Rows may not sum to 100% due to rounding. * Adjusted results exclude “No Response” and “Didn’t Attend”

NOTE: Numbers may not sum to 100% due to rounding.

Yes 95%

No 1%

No Response

5%

My expectations for the program were met (parents)

Yes 92%

No Response

8%

I would recommend TCC's Day of Vision to others (parents)


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Parent Demographics

Person Attending with Student

Number Percent

Parent 167 96%

Other (aunt, grandma, grandpa, guardian, sister) 7 4%

No Response 0 0%


Parent/Other Adult Gender

Number Percent

Male 52 30%

Female 120 69%

No Response 2 1%


Parent/Other Adult Ethnicity

Number Percent

American Indian or Alaska Native 11 6%

Asian 7 4%

Black or African American 11 6%

Hispanic/Latino 9 5%

Native Hawaiian or other Pacific Islander 0 0%

White 117 67%

Two or more races 14 8%

No Response 5 3%


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Which break-out sessions did you (parent) attend?

Session Title (in alphabetical order) Attendance (up to two per

person)

Percentage

Financial Aid – Understanding the Basics 51 16%

Financial Aid – I’ve Completed the FAFSA, Now what? 24 8%

Dear Mom & Dad, You Can Go to College, too! 2 1%

Getting Ready to Learn at the College Level 17 5%

Health Professionals: Family Support of Future Caregivers 11 3%

Navigating the Enrollment Process 22 7%

New Role for Parent of College Students with Disabilities 12 4%

Orientacion en Espanol - Parts 1 and 2 0 0%

Preparing Your Child for College 97 30%

Tulsa Achieves 84 26%

Total Sessions Indicated 320 100% NOTE: Columns may not sum to 100% due to rounding.

Which sessions did you (parent) find most useful?

1. Tulsa Achieves (34)

2. “Both” (30)

3. Preparing Your Child for College (19)

4. Financial Aid – Understanding the Basics (5)

5. New Role for Parent of College Students with Disabilities (4)

6. Financial Aid – I’ve Completed the FAFSA, Now what? (3)

7. Navigating the Enrollment Process (3)

8. Getting Ready to Learn at the College Level (1)

9. Health Professionals: Family Support of Future Caregivers (1)

What would improve this event? (parent perspective)

Ability to attend more than 2 classes for students

Allow more time for questions and answers

Breakfast :)-<

Encouraging

Everything done well

Everything is perfect!!!

Financial Aid should be a general session!

Go to college and learn more

Great job

If session is full open a second session

Information on concurrent enrollment for current has students


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Little more time in break out session

Make it a full day-I would have liked to attend more sessions.

More interest tables

Move areas of interest My ethnicity is not my daughter's perhaps another question in child's ethnicity would be important for

diversity?

n/a

None (2)

Nothing Nothing very well organized. Loved that it was just 1/2 day. My daughter tried it even though I had to

drag her out of bed.

Offer more session for parents to attend like 4 instead of only 2

One-on-one Q&A time

Possibly a longer day for parent and student to attend more sessions

Preparing Your Child for College needed better structure

Seat cushions :)

Shorter time in between sessions; handouts outlining (bullet points) of session information

Some classes with parent and student

Spanish info more specific

Tables of interest very lacking. All interest should be as big as Nursing. Science wasn't there

Talk more about what's available for student out of country that can't do Tulsa Achieves There should be sign posted throughout the hallways, as well as people directing parents and student

the travel time was chaotic and confusing. It should also start on time. The 2nd session didn't start on time.

Very informative I learned a lot! I am so glad we attended. [Name removed] was awesome. I did not know about FERPA so glad she explained and re-explained that!

Would have much rather chosen Financial Aid for second session. Would love to have that knowledge

Would like to be able to attend more sessions Would like to get the hand out for "Preparing Your Child for College" before the session instead of after.

Instructor can ask at beginning if everyone has one.

Would like to have seen a table for the drama department


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Student/Parent Comparison

Student v. Parent Response Comparison

Item Student Mean

Response

Parent Mean

Response

Financial Aid Information 3.02 3.27

Student and Parent Break-out Sessions 3.09 3.31

Tables of Interest 2.83 2.87

Overall Experience 3.25 3.33

Scale: 4="Loved it;" 3="Liked it;" 2="So-So;" 1="Didn't like it" Note: "Didn't attend/missing data" responses were excluded from the descriptive statistics above.

Gender Response Comparison

Item Male Mean

Response

Female Mean

Response Financial Aid Information 3.07 3.18

Student and Parent Break-out Sessions a 3.08 3.25

Tables of Interest 2.87 2.83

Overall Experience a 3.21 3.34

Expectations were Met a 97% 99%

Would Recommend to Others a 99% 99%

a Student and parent responses were combined for these results.

Scale: 4="Loved it;" 3="Liked it;" 2="So-So;" 1="Didn't like it"

Note: “Didn't attend/missing data" responses were excluded from the descriptive statistics above.


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Attendance Trendline

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Student Year Response Comparison

Item

Mean Response

9th Grade 10th Grade 11th Grade 12th Grade

Financial Aid Information 3.04 2.97 3.15 3.21

Student Break-out Sessions 3.22 3.14 3.14 3.24

Tables of Interest 2.91 2.381 2.80 2.86

Overall Experience 3.26 3.24 3.24 3.35

Expectations were Met 96% 97% 99% 95%

Would Recommend to Others 100% 100% 97% 97%

Scale: 4="Loved it;" 3="Liked it;" 2="So-So;" 1="Didn't like it;" Note: "Didn't attend/missing data" responses were excluded from the descriptive statistics above.

Ethnicity Response Comparison

Item

Mean Response American Indian or

Alaska Native

Asian Black or African

American

Hispanic /Latino

White Two or

more races

Financial Aid 2.94 3.38 2.92 3.07 3.20 3.17

Student/Parent Break-out Sessions

a 3.04 3.07 3.13 3.10 3.25 3.19

Tables of Interest 2.55 3.14 2.92 2.97 2.86 2.62

Overall Experience a 3.42 3.50 3.33 3.18 3.29 3.16

Expectations were Met a 100% 100% 97% 95% 99% 92%

Would Recommend to Others a 100% 100% 100% 100% 99% 95%

a Student and parent responses were combined for these results. Scale: 4="Loved it;" 3="Liked it;" 2="So-So;" 1="Didn't like it;"” Note: Didn't attend/missing data" responses were excluded from the descriptive statistics above.

Survey Respondent Trend

2010 2011 2012 2013 2014

Students 262 359 323 143 219

Parents 164 214 255 158 174

Total Survey Respondents

426 573 578 301 393

Total estimated participants per Office of Diversity and Civic Engagement

900+ (MC)

900+ (SEC)

800+ (WC)

700+ (NEC)

700+ (MC)


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