1. Benchmark Friday – October 9, 2009 Student Effort York Technical College

2. CCSSE Benchmarks for Effective Educational Practice • The five CCSSE benchmarks are: • Active and Collaborative Learning • Academic Challenge • Student-Faculty Interaction • Support for Learners • Student Effort Community College Survey of Student Engagement

3. Student Effort • “Students’ own behaviors contribute significantly to their learning and the likelihood that they will successfully attain their goals”.

4. Student Effort • “Quality of effort is a function of the opportunities that an institution offers and the extent to which students make use of those opportunities in their academic and intellectual experiences…” • Robert C. Pace

5. Prepared two or more drafts of a paper or assignment Percent Responding Often or Very Often

6. Integrated ideas/information from various sources into paper Percent Responding Often or Very Often

7. Came to class without completing readings/assignments Percent Responding Often or Very Often

8. Number of hours per week preparing for class Percent Responding 6 or more hours

9. Use of peer or other tutoring Percent Responding Often

10. Use of skill labs (writing, math, etc.) Percent Responding Often

11. Use of computer labs Percent Responding Often

12. Comments/Questions?