Our Research Agenda
This page describes some of the research activities occurring at Porterville College in the upcoming year. It is not comprehensive of all of our projects, but this should give the reader a sense of our goals.
Porterville College Institutional Research Agenda 2009-10 |
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| Project Name | Brief Description | Start Date | Target Completion Date | Any Potential Barriers / Obstacles To Completion | Project status | Priority level |
| State/Federally Mandated Reporting | ||||||
| ARCC Reporting | Review ARCC data, work with other researchers to coordinate any necessary MIS resubmissions, complete self-assessment and work with college and district administration to review self-assessment | 10/26/2009 | 3/2/2009 | None unless we need MIS resubmissions | 1 | |
| IPEDS Fall 2009 Surveys | Complete Institutional Characteristics, Completions and 12-month enrollment surveys | 9/2/2009 | 10/14/2009 | None | Complete | 1 |
| IPEDS Winter 2009-10 Surveys | Complete Human Resources Survey | 12/2/2009 | 1/20/2010 | MIS file errors | Complete | 1 |
| IPEDS Spring 2010 Surveys | Complete Fall Enrollment, Graduation Rates, Student Financial Aid, and Finance surveys | 12/2/2009 | 4/14/2010 | Cooperation of district office accounting staff on finance survey | 1 | |
| Student Right To Know | Complete SRTK report for 2005 cohort | 10/1/2009 | 10/31/2009 | Chancellor's Office errors | Complete | 1 |
| Enrollment Management | ||||||
| Enrollment/FTES reporting | Work with other researchers and the enrollment management committee to improve enrollment management for current terms, those in an enrollment period and projecting future terms. | Ongoing | Ongoing | Oracle Discoverer Reliability | 6 | |
| Enrollment Management Plan | Work with the enrollment management committee to develop an enrollment management plan for the college. The work will begin by reviewing the plans developed by other colleges in the fall. | 8/24/2009 | 5/15/2010 | Ongoing | 2 | |
| Surveys | ||||||
| LISTO program student survey | Conduct survey for LISTO program. | 8/28/2008 | 12/15/2010 | None | Complete | 5 |
| Community College Survey of Student Engagement (possible) | Last year, the district considered participating in CCSSE, but deferred to 2009-10. Should the decision be made to go forward with this survey, the coordination of the effort will be done by the research office. | 12/1/2009 | 5/15/2010 | None | 4 | |
| Planning survey | Conduct employee survey to evaluate the effectiveness of the strategic planning process | 8/24/2009 | 12/15/2009 | Complete | 2 | |
| Student Satisfaction Survey | Spring 2009 Student Satisfaction Survey was conducted earlier this year, but analysis and reporting on the survey are not yet complete. | 2/1/2009 | 10/31/2009 | None | Complete | 4 |
| Matriculation Research | ||||||
| None planned this year other than follow up on test cut score validation | ||||||
| Planning Support | ||||||
| Accreditation mid-term report | Work with accreditation liaison officer, VP Ann Beheler on accreditation mid-term report including reviewing report drafts and posting updated planning documents to the web. | Last spring | 12/15/2009 | None | Complete | 2 |
| Program review data | Compile program review data for 2008-09 | 8/28/2009 | 10/15/2009 | Oracle Discoverer reliability and limitations | Complete | 3 |
| Program review posting | Monitor program review progress and post completed reviews to web site | 8/24/2009 | 5/15/2010 | Completion of reviews | Ongoing | 3 |
| Cost analysis | Work with director of administrative services to complete cost analysis, starting with program review data; two versions will be completed: one using average faculty salaries and benefits and one with "real costs" | 8/24/2009 | 12/15/2009 | Depends on completion of program review data | Completed 'average' version. Other version will have to wait for corrections to budget coding | 3 |
| Annual/regular reports supporting institutional effectiveness | ||||||
| Retention & success data by method of delivery | Update course retention & success data by method of delivery report with 2008-09 data | 2/1/2010 | 5/15/2010 | Oracle Discoverer reliability and limitations | 4 | |
| Annual persistence report. | Complete persistence report including various demographics and categorical participation | 2/1/2009 | 5/15/2010 | Oracle Discoverer reliability and limitations | Currently waiting for base report creation by district researcher | 4 |
| Awards report | Degrees and certificates report by major and year | 2/1/2010 | 5/15/2010 | Oracle Discoverer reliability and limitations; possible data errors that need investigation | Complete | 4 |
| Fall-term demographics | Compile fall-term demographics | 1/26/2010 | 2/28/2010 | Oracle Discoverer reliability and limitations | 4 | |
| High school student profile | Profile of incoming High School Students | 2/20/2010 | 4/30/2010 | Oracle Discoverer reliability and limitations | 4 | |
| Student Learning Outcomes | ||||||
| Support Outcome Process | Act as resource for faculty as they plan assessment of SLOs. provide feedback on validity of assessment plans. Help develop options for assessing institutional SLOs | Ongoing | Ongoing | 6 | ||
| Evaluation support | ||||||
| Evaluation of CSUB Baccalaureate Partnership program | Initial evaluation of program partnering with CSUB | 8/24/2009 | 12/15/2009 | Cooperation of partners; may have to scale back evaluation due to lack of time | Project dropped due to abandonment of program | 2 |
| New or one-time projects | ||||||
| CSU Transfer report | Compile (or distribute) a report on how our students do after transferring to a CSU | 2/1/2010 | 5/15/2010 | Availability of data or sample size (possible we could get report from CSU-Fresno) | 5 | |
| Athlete GPA data | Compile GPA data for athletes, disaggregating to show non-PE classes | 2/9/2009 | 5/15/2010 | Oracle Discoverer reliability and limitations | Underway; need to get further support from district programmer | 5 |
| Cohort study | Begin cohort study of developmental education sequences, starting with English writing sequence. | 9/1/2009 | 1st draft by 10/15/2009 | Oracle Discoverer reliability and limitations | Study complete; being presented to various campus groups | 2 |
| Other ad hoc projects | Ad hoc projects as they come up during the 2009-10 academic year | 8/24/2009 | 5/15/2010 | Ongoing | 5 | |
| Participatory Governance and Associations | ||||||
| Participate in PC Committees | Chair (Grant Oversight Committee), Co-chair (Enrollment Management) Committee Member (College Learning Council, Student Learning Services Division, District Institutional Research Team, Distance Education, Basic Skills, Matriculation, Strategic Planning), Ad Hoc or as needed (Academic Senate, Title IX Advisory, others) | Ongoing | Ongoing | Ongoing | 6 | |
| Conference and Association Participation | Central Valley RP Group (presenting October 30), RP Group web site advisory panel, possibly others funding and time permitting | Ongoing | Ongoing | Ongoing | 6 | |