ERIC Number: EJ1445447
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2024
Pages: 25
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Making Equity Count: An Initiative for Equitable General Education Assessment
Reem Jaafar; Milena Cuellar; Justin Rogers-Cooper
Intersection: A Journal at the Intersection of Assessment and Learning, v5 n2 p4-28 2024
LaGuardia Community College in Queens, New York is known for its leadership in assessment practices aimed at improving teaching and learning. Its practices to improve student outcomes include remedial math and composition pathways reforms and establishing signature general education core competencies and communication abilities. Combined together, such practices have helped double the graduation rate over a decade. Until recently, however, assessment data had not been disaggregated for different student demographics. In this article, we describe how we transformed our traditional means of analyzing outcomes data toward one that utilized an equity-driven index for two cohorts of students across major racial and ethnic populations. We examined the data for representational equity and equitable performance. In a key finding, we discovered our ongoing assessment practices do not reflect our student population on both counts, especially as a designated Hispanic Serving Institution. Further, we found other under- and over-representation of racial populations in our general education assessment samples. We conclude by suggesting further areas of inquiry with equity-based assessment and note ongoing challenges to systematizing this approach.
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Minority Serving Institutions, Educational Improvement, Educational Assessment, Institutional Evaluation, Equal Education, Disproportionate Representation, Population Groups, Demography, Student Diversity, Hispanic Americans, Outcomes of Education
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Evaluative
Education Level: Higher Education; Postsecondary Education; Two Year Colleges
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: New York (New York)
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