2008 Benchmark

2008 Institutional Report Benchmarks of Effective Educational PracticeCommunity College Survey of Student Engagement1of benchmark scores. This cohort is referred to as The Community College the 2008 CCSSE Cohort throughout all reports and Survey of Student Engagement documentation. (CCSSE) utilizes a set of five benchmarks of effective This approach increases the total number of educational practice in community institutions and students contributing to the national colleges. These benchmarks allow dataset, which in turn increases the reliability of the member institutions, with missions overall results. In addition, the 3-year cohort approach focused on teaching, learning, and minimizes the impact, in any given year, of statewide student success, to gauge and monitor their consortia participation.performance in areas that are truly central to their work. In addition, participating colleges The benchmarks are briefly described below.have the opportunity to make appropriate and useful comparisons between their performance and that of other groups of similar colleges. Active and Collaborative LearningStudents learn more when they are actively involved Community colleges differ significantly—even in their education and have opportunities to think dramatically—from one another on variables including about and apply what they are learning in different size, location, resources, enrollment patterns, and settings. Through collaboration with others to solve ...