Citrus College's Acceleration Experience

7/31/2019 Citrus College's Acceleration Experience

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Citrus Colleges Acceleration

Experience


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English100

English 40

English 30

Reading99

Reading40

Reading19

Original

English Sequence

LCFast Track

Fast Track

Fast Track

Fast Track

Original

Reading Sequence

Fast Track (Compression) Model


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Do they work? *Fall 2009 Fall 2010

LC Regular FT FT + LC LC Regular FT FT + LC

ENGL 03034.5%

(48/139)83.0%(78/94)

53.8%(43/80)

81.5%(75/92)

ENGL 04078.6%

(22/28)

67.7%

(268/396)

83.5%

(152/182)

87.1%

(27/31)

60.6%

(20/33)

66.8%

(169/253)

89.1%

(123/138)

90.9%

(30/33)

ENGL 10069.6%

(407/585)84.2%

(128/152)88.1%(52/59)

78.9%(343/435)

86.4%(108/125)

95.0%(57/60)

READ 01971.7%

(114/159)92.1%(58/63)

83.8%(109/130)

93.5%(58/62)

READ 040 75.9%(22/29)

78.8%(193/245)

91.3%(84/92)

96.8%(30/31)

71.5%(128/179)

87.2%(129/148)

93.9%(31/33)

READ 09991.3%(21/23)

77.2%(345/447)

96.6%(28/29)

96.4%(27/28)

68.7%(215/313)

95.2%(79/83)

100%(28/28)

*Preliminary data shows that Fast Track students were successful in English 101 at

approximately the same rate as the general population of English 101 students.


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READ 120

(3 units)ENGL 101

(3 units)

ENGL 100(3 units)

ENGL 40

(3 units)

ENGL 30

(3 units)

READ 99(3 units)

READ 40

(3 units)

READ 19

(3 units)

ENGL 101

(3 units)

ENGL 99

(5 units)

ENGL 98(1 unit lab)

OLD ENGLISH AND READING

SEQUENCE OF COURSES

(BEFORE FALL 2011)

NEW ENGLISH

SEQUENCE OF COURSES

(BEGINNING FALL 2011)


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Campus Stakeholders/Supporters

English and Reading Departments

Vice President of Academic Affairs

Vice President of Student Services

Curriculum Committee Chair

Academic Senate

Counseling and Advising

College Success Advisory Committee (basic skills committee)Disabled Students Programs and Services

Admissions and Records

Learning Communities Faculty Committee


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The Process of Our Curriculum Redesign

Basic skills English faculty expressed concern over length of thesequence

Faculty met with Language Arts/Enrollment Management Dean todiscuss revising the sequence based on success of Fast Track

Dean proposed combining English and reading courses and approached

reading faculty who were amenableBasic Skills Director and faculty met with campus stakeholders

English and reading faculty worked together to design the new courseEnglish and reading faculty worked together to design cross-training forboth English and reading faculty

Curriculum Committee approvalEnglish and reading faculty worked together to design course syllabusand scheduleBlackboard class developedClass piloted Fall 2011Faculty Lead held monthly meetings to discuss issues related to thecourse


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Curriculum DevelopmentEnglish and reading faculty:

Compared course outlines for content and objectives

Eng. 40 and 100/Reading 40 and 99 course outlines

Designed content, objectives and SLOs based onshared goals for reading and writing

Focused on reading, writing, and critical thinking

Developed custom textbook for course


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Cross-training English and reading faculty met to design training that

mirrored our experience in designing the curriculum

Shared vocabulary

Shared content

Shared SLOs

English and reading faculty each led instructors

through suggested content and teaching strategies forintegrating reading and writing

Move away from only mode-based writing assignments

Reading and writing as a recursive process


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First Semester Results

Documents

Citrus College's Acceleration Experience