National Community College Benchmark Project: Peer ...

2010


National Community College
Benchmark Project: Peer Institution
Comparison

IR Report # 209





Office of Institutional Research
November 2010

History of the National Community College Benchmark Project


Responding to the needs for accessible, inter-institutional effectiveness data, Johnson County
Community College, working with other colleges, developed a benchmark reporting process
tailored to the needs of community colleges. The National Community College Benchmark
Project (NCCBP) provides community colleges with opportunities to report outcome and
effectiveness data, receive reports of benchmarks, and compare their data with those of peer
institutions. Subscribers provide benchmark data on a range of learning outcomes and
institutional processes. Definitions of benchmarks are updated annually and current NCCBP
benchmarks include the following:


Certificate, degree completion and Minority participation rates
transfer rates High school graduate enrollment
Credit course persistence rates rates
College-level course retention and Market penetration rates
success rates Average credit section size
Developmental student success in Student/faculty ratio
first college-level courses Instructional faculty load
Career program completers’ Cost per credit hour and FTE
employment status student
Success rates in core academic skill Distance learning sections and
areas grade distributions
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