Academic Development Program: Program and Learning Outcomes
The
primary mission of the Academic Development Program (ADP) is to
bridge the gap which exists between academically under-prepared
students and the level of academic competency necessary for
success in post-secondary studies by enhancing students’ skills
in writing, reading, and mathematics at the pre-college (developmental)
level.
Due to the fact that the majority of the students served by ADP are those who traditionally would have either dropped out or flunked out of school during their first term, any student retained to the next semester or beyond is considered a success.
Program
and Learning Outcomes
Goal
1:
Improve retention of first-time-freshman, at-risk students to the next term and to the second fall semester to be within 5 percentage points of the university average.
Assessment: Freshman retention rates for ADP students are examined from fall to spring semester and from fall to fall semester.
|
Entry
Term
|
Fall
Cohort #
Students |
#
Return Next Term |
%
Return Next Term |
#
Return Next Fall |
%
Return Next Fall |
|
1999F
ADP |
458 |
378 |
82.53% |
272 |
59.39% |
|
1999F
TTU |
1224 |
1047 |
85.54% |
860 |
70.26% |
|
2000F
ADP |
385 |
324 |
84.16% |
214 |
55.58% |
|
2000F TTU |
1140 |
997 |
87.46% |
782 |
68.66% |
|
2001F ADP |
369 |
287 |
77.78% |
207 |
56.10% |
|
2001F TTU |
1125 |
945 |
84.00% |
747 |
66.40% |
|
2002F ADP |
418 |
346 |
82.78% |
260 |
62.20% |
|
2002F TTU |
1197 |
1039 |
86.80% |
823 |
68.76% |
|
2003F ADP |
342 |
273 |
79.82% |
194 |
56.73% |
|
2003F TTU |
1153 |
998 |
86.56% |
832 |
72.16% |
|
2004F ADP |
354 |
304 |
85.86% |
224
|
63.28% |
|
2004F TTU |
1229 |
1134 |
92.27% |
894 |
72.74% |
|
2005F ADP |
294 |
237 |
80.61% |
|
|
|
2005F TTU |
1189 |
1053 |
88.56% |
|
|
*
includes ADP
Examples
of How Assessment Results Have Been Used to Improve the Program
Although the fall to fall retention
rates for freshmen ADP students have increased they still lag
behind the University average.
This problem has been addressed in the following ways
1.
Inclusion of
learning strategies instruction within each discipline.
2.
Beginning 2006 Fall, ADP will offer University 1030,
Learning Strategies, as part of the campus-wide University 1020
orientation/retention initiative.
Goal
2: Improve pass rate of at-risk students
in college-level classes to within 5 percentage points of the
college-level course average.
Assessment:
Mathematics:
Monitor pass rate of ADP math students in Math1010, Math1130,
Math1410, and Math1530.
English:
Monitor pass rate of ADP writing students in English 1010.
|
DSPM0850
2004F to College-level 2005S |
Totals
|
Pass ABCD
|
% Pass |
Non-ADP %
Pass |
After
Changes |
|
MATH1010
|
12
|
9
|
75.05
|
75.47% |
|
|
MATH1130
|
63
|
33
|
52.4%
|
61.98% |
|
|
MATH1410
|
10
|
7
|
70.0%
|
82.46% |
|
|
MATH1530
|
30
|
17
|
56.7%
|
82.41% |
84.20% |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
TOTALS
|
115
|
66
|
57.4%
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
+ I, NF, W,
WF, X [W= students who withdrew numbered in Not-Pass
|
DSPW0800
2004F to College-level 2005S |
Totals
|
English
1010 Pass ABC
|
%
Pass |
|
1st-time
DSPW0800 2004F & English 1010 2005S |
125
|
93
|
74.4% |
|
1st-time
English
1010 2004F |
740
|
647
|
81.1% |
Examples of How Assessment Results Have Been
Used to Improve the Program
The pass rate of ADP students lagged behind the University
average in certain mathematics classes.
To address this problem a special section of
DSPM0850 Dev. Math II [ADPM0865] was developed to address the
needs of students going into Math1530 Probability and Statistics.
Students who took ADPM0865 as prep for Math 1530 improved the
pass rate to 84.20%, actually surpassing the Non-ADP pass rate by
1.79 percentage points. Plans
for similar prep classes specifically focused for Math1410 and
Math1130 are under consideration.
Attention
has also been focused on improving success in writing courses.
The improvements have sought to incorporate more
discipline-specific learning strategies and more emphasis on the
importance of writing in the overall academic setting.