Student success in community colleges: a practical guide to developmental education

This book will assist practitioners to develop an informed understanding of practices that are documented to produce desired outcomes to help basic skills students succeed and advance in college. By applying the institutional self-assessment, colleges can identify exactly where their current activities align with known effective practices and can determine strategic directions for improvement in areas where gaps are identified. Drawing on information and examplesfrom the literature review, planning efforts can become more purposeful and focused into directions that are likely to produce results. Actions will be identified that apply at various levels in the institution such that simultaneousattention can be brought to bear in a coordinated and integrated way, unitingfaculty, staff, and administrators in a cooperative effort to affect institutional change. The book will contain a large section highlighting effective instructional and student support practices. From the standpoint of teaching faculty and student affairs professionals, this information will provide practicalways in which teaching and supportive services can be altered by individuals to make an immediate difference in the classroom program. This book will be useful to: Engage executive leadership in addressing administrative structures and obstacles that enhance or impede delivery of exemplary service to basic skills students Help institutions conduct a thorough review of all aspects of thedevelopmental education program and align activities with known effective practices Identify professional development needs and generate staff development programs that will engage faculty and staff in meaningful learning opportunities that will be immediately relevant and applicable to their work Establish a basis for ongoing cross-disciplinary dialogue and development of structures that will continue to support intra-institutional communication and dissemination of ideas Inform development and evaluation of new campus-based initiative tobetter serve basic skills studentsDeborah J. Boroch, recently deceased, was the interim dean of Instructional Services at Mt. San Antonio College and previously served as project coordinator for the college's Title V grant targeting improved student success in developmental mathematics. She also chaired the college's Developmental Education Studies Team. Laura Hope is a professor and the Success Center Coordinator at Chaffey College. She is the cochair of the student learning outcomes initiative at Chaffey and coordinates the instructional program at the CA Institution forWomen at Chino. Bruce M. Smith is dean of the School of Liberal Arts at CCSF.Smith has been the dean of Academic Affairs at Santa Barbara City College andserved on the faculty of Antelope Valley College for 19 years, including 6 asacademic senate president. Robert S. Gabriner is director of the Education Leadership program at San Francisco State University. Pamela M. Mery is a researcher at City College of San Francisco. She has written in-depth and award-winning reports on precollegiate, basic skills. Robert M. Johnstone is vice president of Instruction at Foothill College, where he previously served as the Director of Institutional Research. Johnstone serves as the RP Group Board Representative to the League for Innovation in the Community Colleges, and as a member of the CA Community Colleges Chief Instructional Officers. Rose Asera is a senior scholar at the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching and director of the Strengthening Pre-Collegiate Education in Community Colleges project, which works with eleven CA community colleges.

• ISBN: 978-0-470-45555-5
• Editorial: John Wiley & Sons
• Encuadernacion: Rústica
• Páginas: 272
• Fecha Publicación: 21/04/2010
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés