Posted by bposton on November 16th, 2006 — Posted in associate online degree programs
I say this statistic in the USA Today, and it just blew me away…
Let’s take 100 ninth graders in high school, and follow them for the next 10 years. Here’s what we’ll find:
- At the end of four years, 68 of these 100 ninth graders will graduate from high school.
- Of those 68 high school graduates, only 40 of them will immediately enroll in college.
- Of those 40 that enrolled in college, only 27 are still there the following year.
- And of these 27 students, 18 of them will graduate within 6 years.
So after 10 years, only 18 of the 100 wide-eyed ninth graders have made it - they have a college degree in there hands.
Doesn’t that just blow you away?
Ben
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Posted by bposton on November 16th, 2006 — Posted in associate online degree programs
As a follow-up to my last post, the US Department of Education has suggested that colleges start collecting and reporting data on student improvement at their schools.
What’s interesting is that there are already tools out there that colleges can (and many do) already use to do this data gathering.
For example, the National Survey of Student Engagement is a collection of data for both 4 year and 2 year schools that measure the time and effort seniors and freshmen say they put into various educational activities.
And as I mentions, many colleges are already using these tools. The problem is, they are not reporting the data to the public, or they’re making it very difficult to find on their websites. And of course, there is no way right now to link any of this data together so that you can compare the data across many colleges.
So that’s why the Department of Education is proposing that the Federal Governement provide matching funds for colleges and states that publicly report this data. And they have the dream of linking all this data to one main website - theirs.
So that’s the crux of the issue with the USDE’s recommendations. How much is the Goverment willing to get involved in the collection and reporting of how well students are doing (like the No Child Left Behind act is forcing primary schools to do) and how willing are the colleges and universities in the US to do so.
Ben
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Posted by bposton on November 15th, 2006 — Posted in associate online degree programs
Hey, not sure if you saw it, but there was a great couple of articles in yesterday’s USA Today.
The information was so good, and so much, that I’ve decided to set aside the next few posts just to parapharse the content and give you my thoughts on the subject it covered
So Stay Tuned…lots more to come
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