Training student volunteers and assembling survey packages. Distribution of survey and tabulation of data by department. According to the yearly program planning schedule Instruction 6. Student Success Grant OIR, in conjunction with Computing Resources, has won Phase I of the Student Success Grant from the Chancellor s Office to conduct a feasibility study for establishing a remotely accessible MIS data repository for all 107 community colleges in California. OIR and CR will work together in the next few months to complete Phase I of the grant.
Work is underway to set up testing servers and hiring a consultant.
OIR will also conduct project evaluation. As requested by Title V regulations, OIR will work with the Matriculation Office to conduct the second Matriculation Service Evaluation. This is a study that will update the findings from a study conducted by OIR in 1996 concerning the rate of progress of basic skills students from basic skills courses to the next level in sequence. This is in response to the Partnership For Excellence and college Master Plan evaluation. The English department has proposed to use newly created essay prompts for its assessment testing.