helping your college use data
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Helping Your College Use Data. Tools for Data Conversations. Session Outcomes. Session Outcomes. Equip your (institution’s) utility belt with additional data tools that streamline your work and jumpstart conversations Exchange data tools you currently use - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
Presenters
Priyadarshini Chaplot
Rob Johnstone
Tools for Data Conversations
Helping Your College Use Data
Session Outcomes
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Session Outcomes1. Equip your (institution’s) utility belt with
additional data tools that streamline your work and jumpstart conversations
2. Exchange data tools you currently use
3. Expand our collective resource toolkit
Tools
CCCCO Data Mart• Public website• Online query tool enabling ad hoc queries• Download queries• First file• Reports updated as data are submitted/resubmitted
Link: http://www.cccco.edu/SystemOffice/Divisions/TechResearchInfo/MIS/DataMartandReports/tabid/282/Default.aspx
CCCCO Data Mart
CCCCO Data Mart
Transfer Velocity Cohort Calculator• Includes all first-time freshmen six years after their entry who have completed 12 credit units and attempted a transfer level Math or English course• Age, gender, ethnicity, and special groups• Updated in May, August, and December of each year
Link:http://webprod.cccco.edu/datamarttrans/dmtrnsstucsel.aspx
Full methodological explanation: http://www.ccctransfer.org/TransferReport.pdf
Transfer Velocity Cohort Calculator
Example: Mt. SAC
Cal-PASS SMART Tool• Standardized Metrics for Analysis, Reporting, and Tracking• Developed with funding from Hewlett and Irvine Foundations to support program review• Can be used for grant submissions, project reporting, enrollment management, etc.•Uses OLAP cubes to allow users to ‘point and click’ and ‘drag and drop’ to examine data • Export results: Word, Excel, PowerPoint
Link: https://my.calpass.org
Cal-PASS SMART Tool
CPEC Transfer Pathways• Useful for tracking CC students to individual CSUs and UCs• Also can be used to compare the number of students from different CCs accepted into specific CSUs and/or UCs• A high school component where you can track entering freshmen at CCs by HS – good for comparing where certain HS graduates go
Link:
http://www.cpec.ca.gov/OnLineData/TransferPathway.asp
BRIC Data PowerPoints• Series of PowerPoint presentations• Spanning a variety of topics
• Classroom-Based Researcher
• Research is a Partnership
• Research Design and Assessment Techniques
• What to Do When Your Data Don’t Reveal a Clear Solution
• The Basics of Program Evaluation
• Can be adapted and used at your own institutions• Coming in 2011
Syntax Library
• Central space to house various codes (ex. SPSS, SAS) that execute common functions and reports• Include(s) function as well as the code, comments, considerations, conditions• Provide(s) code and logic to allow for usability
http://www.rpgroup.org/community/forum/syntax-library
Resources
Data Sourceswww.rpgroup.org/sites/default/files/Educational Data Sources.pdf
http://rpgroup.org/resources/national-institutional-research-resources
Data Sources
Other Data Tools• Data on Demand – cohort tracking• ARCC – download individual student records and analyze (e.g. achievement/persistence rate by ethnicity, basic skills success/improvement rates)• Stata
Data Sources
Contact Information
Priyadarshini ChaplotBRIC Project [email protected]
Rob JohnstoneBRIC Project [email protected]
The RP Group: www.rpgroup.org