Well, I'm finally home. The Kellogg experience was extremely informative, fun, and exhausting.
Here's some random tid-bits from Week 4:
Developmental Ed's guru, Dr. Hunter Boylan, lead the discussions this week. The main focus was outcomes assessment and program evaluation, and we were visited by Michael Collins of Jobs for the Future.
- National studies by the Dev. Educ. Initiative show that 33% of students are placed or referred to developmental reading (23% of those are placed in the highest level) and only 44% of students are successful. The numbers for math are worse. Dev. Ed. is not working as it does not appreciably increase student outcomes!
- National studies show that students who place just below the cut score do not benefit from dev. classes, but are successful if they are placed in transfer-level courses with supplemental instruction. So, Betty, this supports what you are investigating (placing students into EN 101S).
- We discussed the American Association of Higher Ed's 9 principles of assessment-I won't list them all here, but we can talk about them at some other time. We should look at intermediate metrics not only summative data to see how we are doing at certain times within a course.
By the way, I'll be doing a congruency comparison for my practicum. I'll attach my practicum prospectus to a future post.
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