College Transfer Performance: A Methodology for Equitable Measurement and Comparison

Autor/inn/en	Bahr, Peter Riley; Hom, Willard; Perry, Patrick
Titel	College Transfer Performance: A Methodology for Equitable Measurement and Comparison
Quelle	In: Journal of Applied Research in the Community College, 13 (2005) 1, S.73-87 (15 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1068-610X
Schlagwörter	Transfer Rates (College); Community Colleges; Evaluation Methods; California + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Community college; Community College; Kalifornien
Abstract	Accountability in performance is a subject of increasing attention and concern for community colleges. In California, much attention has been focused on student transfers from the community colleges to four-year institutions as a primary facet of institutional performance. This focus often leads to comparisons of transfer rates between colleges with the goal of identifying low performing and high performing colleges. However, comparison of raw rates of transfer ignores important differences in the structural conditions and exogenous variables affecting the performance of each college, leading to inequitable stratification of colleges and inaccurate classification of colleges in terms of transfer performance. To treat this fundamental incomparability of raw transfer rates, a method for equitable comparison of transfer outcomes was developed and implemented in California's community college system. This method involves major enhancements to prior efforts in California to implement transfer comparisons, including a less biased definition of the transfer rate, the use of statistical models to adjust for exogenous variables observed to affect the transfer outcome, the use of multiple student cohorts, and the inclusion of data on student transfers to a wider range of four-year institutions (both private and public, and both in-state and out-of-state). (Author).
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Update	2017/4/10