CCSSE 2012 Findings for
Southern Crescent Technical College
Presentation Overview
 CCSSE Overview
 Student Respondent Profile
 CCSSE Benchmarks
 SCTC Standard Report Data
 CCFSSE Overview
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CCSSE Overview
What is Student Engagement?
 …the institutional practices and student behaviors
that are highly correlated with student learning and
retention
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The Community College Survey of
Student Engagement (CCSSE)
CCSSE is designed to capture
student engagement as a
measure of institutional
quality. It provides information
about effective educational
practice in community
colleges and assists
institutions in using that
information to promote
improvements in student
learning and persistence.
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CCSSE: A Tool for Community Colleges
 As a tool for improvement, CCSSE helps us
• Assess quality in community college education
• Identify and learn from good educational practice
• Identify areas in which we can improve
 Basic principles
• Provides reliable data on issues that matter
• Reports data publicly
• Is committed to using data for improvement
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CCSSE: A Tool for Community Colleges
 SCTC is working to help students learn and achieve their
academic goals. CCSSE is a tool that helps us improve student
outcomes by designing engagement strategies geared to our
students, while identifying areas in which we can improve
programs and services for students.
 The CCSSE survey focuses on institutional practices and
student behaviors that promote student engagement — and
are positively correlated with student learning and retention.
The survey is administered directly to students during class
sessions. These classes are selected at random from all credit
classes, excluding distance learning, studio, and lab classes.
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SCTC Student Respondent Profile
CCSSE Cohort
 2012 Cohort = 710 Institutions
 CCSSE data analyses include a three-year cohort of
participating colleges. The 2012 CCSSE Cohort
includes all colleges that participated in CCSSE from
2010 through 2012. If a college participated more
than one time in the three-year period, the cohort
includes data only from its most recent year of
participation. The 2012 CCSSE Cohort represents
over 5,381,801 community college students from 710
community and technical colleges in 48 states.
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SCTC Survey Respondents
 641 adjusted survey count
 80% overall “percent of target” rate

The percent of target rate is the ratio of the adjusted number of completed
surveys (surveys that were filled out properly and did not fall into any of the
exclusionary categories) to the target sample size. The following respondents
were excluded from reporting:
• Respondents not indicating enrollment status
• Respondents marking invalid data selections
• Respondents under the age of 18
• Respondents indicating previous survey submission

Oversample respondents were also excluded.
Source: Standard Reports/Appendix/Table 2: Percent of Target/”Percent of Target”/”Adjusted Survey Count”
Source: 2012 CCSSE data
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Student Respondent Profile:
Enrollment Status
80%
71%
72%
70%
60%
50%
40%
30%
29%
28%
20%
10%
0%
Less than Full-Time
SCTC
Full-Time
CCSSE 2012 Cohort
Source: Survey Item #2, Standard Reports/Appendix/Table 1: Respondents to Underlying Populations
Source: 2012 CCSSE data
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Student Respondent Profile:
Age
70%
64%
60%
50%
49%
40%
32%
30%
25%
19%
20%
10%
10%
0%
18-24
25-39
SCTC
40+
CCSSE 2012 Cohort
Source: Survey Item #29, Standard Reports/Appendix/Table 1: Respondents to Underlying Populations
Source: 2012 CCSSE data
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Student Respondent Profile:
Gender
80%
72%
70%
57%
60%
50%
43%
40%
30%
27%
20%
10%
0%
Male
SCTC
Female
CCSSE 2012 Cohort
Source: Survey Item #30, Standard Reports/Appendix/Table 1: Respondents to Underlying Populations
Source: 2012 CCSSE data
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Student Respondent Profile:
Race & Ethnicity
50%
White
2%
Hispanic
12%
Black
American Indian
35%
12%
1%
Asian
61%
4%
0%
2%
3%
4%
Other
0%
10%
SCTC
20%
30%
40%
50%
60%
70%
CCSSE 2012 Cohort
Source: Survey Item #34, Standard Reports/Appendix/Table 1: Respondents to Underlying Populations
Source: 2012 CCSSE data
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Student Respondent Profile:
Educational Attainment
0% 0% 1%
7%
Not a high school graduate
4%
High school diploma or GED
Technical Certificate
16%
Associate degree
Bachelor's degree
71%
Master's degree/1st professional degree
Doctorate degree
Source: Survey Items #1, #23, and #35, Standard Reports for SCTC/All Students/Frequencies
Source: 2012 CCSSE data
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Student Respondent Profile:
Goals
57.6
Complete a certificate program
14.9
53
Obtain an associate degree
26.7
26.2
Transfer to a 4-year college or university
31.1
54.2
Obtain or update job-related skills
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47
Self-improvement/personal enjoyment
31.8
35.8
Change careers
18.9
0
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Primary Goal
20
30
40
50
60
70
Secondary Goal
Source: Survey Items #17, Standard Reports for SCTC/All Students/Frequencies
Source: 2012 CCSSE data
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Student Respondent Profile:
Total Credit Hours Earned
None
11%
16%
1-14 credits
9%
15-29 credits
10%
30-44 credits
35%
45-60 credits
19%
Over 60 credits
Source: Survey Items #23, Standard Reports for SCTC/All Students/Frequencies
Source: 2012 CCSSE data
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Student Respondent Profile:
College-Sponsored Activities
(including organizations, campus publications, student government, intercollegiate or intramural sports, etc.)
2%
0%
1%
1%
None
11%
1-5 hours
6-10 hours
11-20 hours
21-30 hours
85%
More than 30 hours
Source: Survey Items #10c, Standard Reports for SCTC/All Students/Frequencies
Source: 2012 CCSSE data
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CCSSE Benchmarks
CCSSE Benchmarks for
Effective Educational Practice
The five CCSSE benchmarks are
• Active and Collaborative Learning
• Student Effort
• Academic Challenge
• Student-Faculty Interaction
• Support for Learners
 Refer to 2012 Key Findings for SCTC
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SCTC Standard Report Data
Student Persistence
Barriers to Returning to College
How likely is it that the following issues would cause you to withdraw from class or
from this college?
Working full-time
37%
Caring for dependents
28%
Academically unprepared
20%
Lack of finances
58%
0%
10%
20%
30%
40%
50%
60%
70%
Source: Survey Items #20, Standard Reports for SCTC/All Students/Frequencies
Source: 2012 CCSSE data
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Developmental Education
 23.2% have taken or plan to take developmental reading
 24.2% have taken or plan to take developmental writing
 46.9% have taken or plan to take developmental math
SCTC Students
Developmental Math
46.9
Developmental Writing
24.2
Developmental Reading
23.2
0
5
10
15
20
25
30
35
40
45
50
Source: Survey Items #8c - #8f, Standard Reports for SCTC/All Students/Frequencies
Source: 2012 CCSSE data
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At-Risk Students
 Risk factors reflected in the CCSSE survey
include:
• 27.6% of students are working more than 30 hours
per week off-campus
• 46.9% of students have dependents in the
household
• 57.8% of students identify the cost of attending
college as a significant issue
• 25.6% of students rely on their own income or
savings as a major source for college costs
• About 43% of students are first-generation
Source: Survey Items #2, #10b and #14a, #10d, #14b, and #28 Standard Reports for SCTC/All Students/Frequencies
Source: 2012 CCSSE data
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Integrate Student Support into Learning
Experiences
Student Use and Value of Student Services
How often do you use the services?
How important are the services?
Rarely/Never
Very
Not at all
Academic advising/planning
70.4%
6.6%
Academic advising/planning
Career counseling
53.9%
16.9%
Career counseling
52%
Peer or other tutoring
42.3%
25.5%
Peer or other tutoring
44%
Skill labs (writing, math, etc.)
52.6%
18.6%
Skill labs (writing, math, etc.)
29.6%
35.9%
Source: Survey Items #13a, #13b, #13d, and #13e Standard Reports for SCTC/All Students/Frequencies
Source: 2012 CCSSE data
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CCFSSE
Overview
 The Community College Faculty Survey of Student
Engagement (CCFSSE) elicits information from faculty about
their teaching practices, the ways they spend their professional
time, both in and out of class, and their perceptions regarding
students’ educational experiences.
 The 2012 CCFSSE Cohort includes 300 institutions from 45
states. The CCFSSE was completed by 36,062 faculty
members across the 2010, 2011, and 2012 administrations.
 SCTC = 185 Invitations 53% Response Rate
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CCFSSE – Faculty Survey

During the current academic year at this college, in which of the following ways,
if at all, have you been involved in college orientation?
42
Advising/referring students into the experience
23
Teaching/facilitating
All Faculty
9
Coordinating/supervising
16
Planning/designing
0
10
20
30
40
50
Source: Survey Items #6, Standard Reports for SCTC/All Faculty/Promising Practices
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CCFSSE – Faculty Survey

During the current academic year at this college, in which of the following ways, if at all,
have you been involved in a student success course (such as a student development,
extended orientation, study skills, student life skills, or college success course)?
2
Training or mentoring student tutors
4
Training faculty
12
Advising/referring students into the experience
All Faculty
12
Teaching/facilitating
Coordinating/supervising
6
Planning/designing
6
0
2
4
6
8
10
12
Source: Survey Items #9, Standard Reports for SCTC/All Faculty/Promising Practices
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CCFSSE – Faculty Survey

At the beginning of the current term, in your selected course section, which of the following
methods, if any, did you use to administer an inclass assessment to determine your students’
preparedness to succeed in the course?
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None of these
19
A computer-assisted assessment
27
An online assessment
All Faculty
24
An oral assessment
38
A written assessment
0
5
10
15
20
25
30
35
40
Source: Survey Items #14, Standard Reports for SCTC/All Faculty/Promising Practices
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CCFSSE – Faculty Survey

Which of the following, if any, is your most common action based on results of your inclass assessment if a student is under-prepared?
7
Other
4
I advise a student to drop the course
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I adjust my course pedagogy or approach
I recommend to academic advising or student
services that a student be placed in another
course or level
All Faculty
4
I recommend to a student that he/she use
tutoring or other academic support service
16
0
10
20
30
40
Source: Survey Items #15, Standard Reports for SCTC/All Faculty/Promising Practices
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