Toward Informative Assessment and a Culture of Evidence

Examines how campuses in the Strengthening Pre-collegiate Education in Community Colleges initiative combined traditional and innovative measures of student performance such as "think-aloud" protocol and pre-post testing to improve teaching and learning

Inspection report: Itchen College

Dates of inspection: 1–5 March 200

Massachusetts Community Colleges: The Potential for Improving College Attainment

Provides an overview of the state's community colleges, examines promising strategies to improve graduation rates among different demographics, and suggests new practices for community colleges, for collaboration among institutions, and for state policy

Widening participation and raising standards: colleges’ case studies, report from the Inspectorate

Contents What works: Key Critical Success Factors 6 Case Study 1: Knowsley Community College 8 Case Study 2: Barking College 47 Case Study 3: Northumberland College 70 Case Study 4: Thurrock College 88 Case Study 5: Hackney Community College 105 Case Study 6: Joseph Chamberlain Sixth Form College 12

Wulfrun College: report from the Inspectorate (FEFC inspection report; 57/97 and 104/99)

The Further Education Funding Council has a legal duty to make sure further education in England is properly assessed. The FEFC’s inspectorate inspects and reports on each college of further education according to a four-year cycle. This record comprises two of these reports for periods 1996-97 and 1998-99

City College Birmingham (FEFC inspection report; 24/01)

Education Funding Council (FEFC) inspection report for 2000-01 (43/01). The FEFC has a legal duty to make sure further education in England is properly assessed. Inspections and reports on each college of further education are conducted according to a four-year cycle. City College, Birmingham is the largest general further education college in the West Midlands. It recruits a high percentage of its students from disadvantaged areas

Building a Culture of Evidence for Community College Student Success: Early Progress in the Achieving the Dream Initiative

Achieving the Dream is a multiyear, national initiative, launched by Lumina Foundation for Education, to help community college students stay in school and succeed. The 82 participating colleges commit to collecting and analyzing data to improve student outcomes, particularly for low-income students and students of color. This baseline report describes the early progress that the first 27 colleges have made after just one year of implementation

Student retention in further education : a problem of quality or of student finance?

"This paper is an updated version of one presented to the British Educational Research Association Annual Conference in September 1999" -- front cover

St John Rigby Roman Catholic Sixth Form College: report from the Inspectorate (FEFC inspection report; 11/97)

The Further Education Funding Council has a legal duty to make sure further education in England is properly assessed. The FEFC’s inspectorate inspects and reports on each college of further education according to a four-year cycle. This is such a report for the period 1996-97