ABSTRACT

Assessing and Improving Student Outcomes: What We Are Learning at Miami Dade College  

Told from the point of view of the MDC's Office of Institutional Effectiveness, this paper describes how the college is sing the interpretation of a variety of data to make better-informed choices about the operation of student programs and services. MDC has made a number of changes in an attempt to improve student outcomes across its large, eight-campus college. While this endeavor continues to move forward, some specific strategies relevant to the college's developmental mathematics pathway that were launched a few years ago have begun to show promising results. What is more, the processes that took place in choosing, implementing, and assessing those strategies have to some meaningful extent been institutionalized through college-wide reform.