SMART Tools cited in LBCC Research Award

IEBC’s powerful SMART Tools were highlighted when Long Beach City College received the RP Group award for Excellence in College Research. LBCC used the Tools to examine predictors of math and English placement and performance.

Gulf Coast New Partner for Student Success

IEBC and the Gulf Coast Partnership for Achieving Student Success (Greater Houston, Texas region) are part of a University of Texas $11-million grant to increase college readiness and ease transition for high school graduates. IEBC Customized SMART Tools and facilitated faculty collaboration are critical assets.

Now Available: Cal-PASS/IEBC English and Math Curricula Guides

English and math curricula guides incorporate newly aligned, contextually relevant and collaboratively developed curricula. Use to enhance instruction, increase student engagement, improve course alignment and reduce a major cause of remediation. Developed by hundreds of faculty from high schools and colleges in California under the Cal-PASS/IEBC ACCESS initiative (Aligning Curricula and Career Education for Student Success).

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Irvine awards IEBC grant for Linked Learning Initiative

The Institute for Evidence-Based Change (IEBC) has received a $1 million, two-year grant from the Irvine Foundation to lead efforts to improve data use by school districts in the Foundation’s Linked Learning District Initiative. IEBC will develop and implement a data system to track student progress; provide feedback reports to districts about students’ postsecondary progress, conduct research using data from the Cal-PASS database, and provide professional development in support of using evidence to support continuous program improvement efforts.

Student Athletes and Academic Achievement

For the first time in California, educators and policymakers can tell how student athletes are performing in community college classrooms. The Institute for Evidence-Based Change (IEBC) in collaboration with the California Partnership for Achieving Student Success (Cal-PASS) has provided the California Community College Athletics Association and community colleges statewide with new web-based data about student athletes using the Standardized Metrics for Analysis, Reporting, and Tracking, or SMART Tool™.

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