Setting Students Up for Life Long Success
In the past six years new assessment practices and interventions have helped increase retention rates among Hispanic students. Targeted interventions and programming have benefited our large Hispanic student population. Academic support, counseling, peer group interventions, culturally responsive pedagogy and instructional technologies are an integral part of every SEEK student’s experience. Investment in these supports have resulted in significant student success.
• Increase amount of first year students in good academic standing from 80% in Fall 2015 to 87.9% in Fall 2016.
• Increase first semester average credit accumulation for first year students from 13.3 in Fall 2015 to 14 in Fall 2016.
• First semester retention increased from 86% (Fall 2015 cohort) to 98% (Fall 2016 cohort).
. Second year retention increased from 69.5% in 2010 to 81.1% in 2014
o Four year graduation increased from 9.6 to 23.4.
o Five year graduation increased from 37.7 to 40.4
o Six year graduation increased from 41.6 to 47.1
• Increase total amount of students on good academic standing.
o It increased from 91.6 to 93.7%
Technologies
Digication for ePortfolios-Students are introduced to e-Portfolios during the summer program. Using the Digication platform students complete a weekly assignment related to the theme of the week. The weekly modules have an electronic component and students add a reflective piece to their portfolio online. This introduction to e-Portfolio during the summer sets students for a the successful use of technology during their first semester.
McGraw Hill’s ALEKS program is fully integrated into the math curriculum. Assessment and Learning in Knowledge Spaces is a Web-based, artificially intelligent assessment and learning system. ALEKS uses adaptive questioning to quickly and accurately determine exactly what a student knows and doesn’t know in a course. ALEKS then instructs the student on the topics she is most ready to learn. As a student works through a course, ALEKS periodically reassesses the student to ensure that topics learned are also retained. ALEKS courses are very complete in their topic coverage and ALEKS avoids multiple-choice questions.
The Blackboard Course Management system is used for course content, assignments and online discussions.
Explain project results
Although based on high school GPA and SAT scores, SEEK’s first year students are academically less prepared than non-SEEK students, the increase of first year student retention for SEEK’s Hispanic students at John Jay is significantly higher than non-SEEK students.
SEEK Non-SEEK
2010 82.7 80.5
2011 83.3 78.8
2012 83.9 78.8
2013 84.1 82.1
2014 85.8 75.5
2015 86.2 77.8
Why it should be considered best practice?
The SEEK Program helps mitigate the inequity of educational systems and is committed to access, justice, academic success, inclusion and the development of life-long learners and future leaders. SEEK’s integration of evidence based best practices and targeted interventions produce retention rates for first and second year students higher than non-SEEK students.
Sixty four percent of SEEK students at John Jay College are Hispanic.
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