Meeting the Challenge: The Cal-PASS Initiative

1. Meeting the Challenge: The Cal-PASS Initiative California Partnership for Achieving Student Success www.calpass.org “Success at Every Level”

2. The Challenge • “…the coursework between high school and college is not connected; students graduate from high school under one set of standards and, three months later, are required to meet a whole new set of standards in college.” Venezia, Kirst, & Antonio, 2002 • “… an unacceptable number of college students must take costly remedial classes. Moreover there is a troubling and persistent gap between the college attendance and graduation rates of low-income Americans and their more affluent peers.” Spellings, September 2006 • “Education has been unable to systematically document what happens to students leaving K-12. This inability has serious implications for policy formation, foundation investment, etc” Tessa Carmen DeRoy, The Rosalinde and Arthur Gilbert Foundation, 2006 “Success at Every Level”

4. The California Partnership for Achieving Student Success (Cal-PASS) • - Began in 1998 in response to disconnects in CA among the K-12, community college, and four-year degree granting segments • - Includes K-12 schools, colleges and universities • All UC, all but five CSU, many private universities • All 110 community colleges • Over 7000 K-12 schools • - Is regionally based with 27 consortia, statewide • - Over 330 million student records • - Funded by the state and private entities • - 73 Professional Learning Communities (PLC) • - Empower PLCs to innovate “Success at Every Level”

5. Student Data: What Kinds of Data are Collected? Student identifier (Pseudonumber) Student file Demographic information County, District, School Course file Enrollment information Course performance Test file CST CAHSEE Award file Diplomas, degrees, certificates Custom file Linked to either student or course information “Success at Every Level”

6. Data Security FERPA compliant Data are anonymous – personal identifier information is removed or encrypted Locally run program encrypts and validates data prior to transmission Servers in secure, Level IV data center with firewall and controlled access Security document available atwww.calpass.org “Success at Every Level”

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8. Making Cal-PASS Work: Intersegmental Professional Learning Councils • English • Mathematics • Science • Career Tech Ed • Counseling • ELL/ESL “Success at Every Level”

9. Data Develop &ImplementInnovation ProblemIdentification FacultyWisdom EvaluateInnovation AbandonReviseScale-up Making Cal-PASS Work: Professional Learning Councils “Success at Every Level”

10. Cal-PASS Research Action Research Paradigm Faculty, administrators, and local researchers are active participants Iterative process to refine analysis Common questions become standard reports or web based queries produced by Cal-PASS staff Locally unique questions handled by local researchers with assistance from Cal-PASS staff

11. Level of first math attempted at a community college relative to last math class passed in high school with a grade of C or better from available Cal-PASS member schools. N=46,847.

12. Relation between last math passed at Alpha High School and first math attempted at Beta College Red = attempted class in college lower than that already passed in high school Gold = attempted class in college equal to that already passed in high school Green = attempted class in college higher than that already passed in high school “Success at Every Level”

13. Reporting Issues Remain… • How to drill down further? • How to avoid having to request research reports? • from Cal-PASS • from local institutional researchers • How to ensure access to data is useable and useful? “Success at Every Level”

14. The Solution StandardizedMetrics forAnalysis, Reporting,and Tracking The SMART Tool™ “Success at Every Level”

15. The SMART Tool™ • Web-based access • Access controlled • Customizable • Question driven “Success at Every Level”

16. The SMART Tool™ Demonstration andPlay Time “Success at Every Level”

17. The SMART Tool™ Logging on: • my.calpass.org “Success at Every Level”

18. The SMART Tool™ “Success at Every Level”

19. The SMART Tool™ Logging on: • my.calpass.org • first initial and last name (jhorowitz) • c@lp@ss1 “Success at Every Level”

20. Meeting the Challenge: The Cal-PASS Initiative California Partnership for Achieving Student Success www.calpass.org “Success at Every Level”