Our Research Agenda

This page describes some of the research activities occurring at Porterville College in the upcoming year. It is not comprehensive of all of our projects, but this should give the reader a sense of our goals.

Porterville College Institutional Research Agenda 2008-09

Project Name	Brief Description	Start Date	Target Completion Date	Any Potential Barriers / Obstacles To Completion	Project status

State/Federally Mandated Reporting
ARCC Reporting	Review ARCC data, work with other researchers to coordinate any necessary MIS resubmissions, complete self-assessment and work with college and district administration to review self-assessment	10/24/2008	2/27/2009	None unless we need MIS resubmissions
IPEDS Fall 2008 Surveys	Complete Institutional Characteristics, Completions and 12-month enrollment surveys	9/3/2008	10/15/2008	None	Complete
IPEDS Winter 2008-09 Surveys	Complete Human Resources Survey	12/3/2008	1/21/2009	MIS file errors
IPEDS Spring 2009 Surveys	Complete Fall Enrollment, Graduation Rates, Student Financial Aid, and Finance surveys	3/4/2009	4/15/2009	Cooperation of district office accounting staff on finance survey
Student Right To Know	Complete SRTK report	2/1/2009	2/28/2009	Chancellor's Office errors

Enrollment Management
Enrollment/FTES reporting	Each Monday of fall term throughout term, enrollment and FTES estimates are sent to the enrollment management committee for the fall 2008 term. Beginning when open enrollment begins for spring, this info will be sent for spring as well. When open enrollment begins for summer and fall 2009, I’ll begin sending reports for those terms each Monday.	Each Monday	Ongoing	Oracle Discoverer Reliability	Ongoing
Enrollment Projection Report	Working with VP of Academic Affairs, create report for enrollment projection for sections, courses, and terms	3/1/2008	3/1/2009	Oracle Discoverer reliability and limitations	In progress; 1st draft completed

Surveys
LISTO program student survey	Conduct survey for LISTO program.	8/28/2008	10/15/2008	None	In progress
Faculty engagement survey	Conduct faculty engagement survey (done every 3 years).	9/8/2008	10/15/2008	None	Survey complete; compiling results
Student Satisfaction Survey	Spring 2009 Student Satisfaction Survey (repeated every odd spring term): Note this survey may be replaced by CCSSE if the district decides to use CCSSE for all three colleges; if this happens, the Student Satisfaction Survey will likely be delayed until 2010 and perhaps modified	1-Feb	3/31/2009	None other than possible replacement by CCSSE

Matriculation Research
Accuplacer studies	Pull data & work with matriculation coordinator and consultant on Accuplacer cutoff scores and disproportionate impact study	9/15/2008	12/15/2008	Oracle Discoverer reliability and ability to pull appropriate data from Discoverer	In progress

Planning Support
Accreditation mid-term report--IR Office items	IR office responsibilities. Report back to accreditation liaison officer, VP Steve Schultz, on responsibilities assigned to IR Office in the 2006 self-study.	8/28/2008	9/22/2008	None	Complete
Accreditation mid-term report	Work with accreditation liaison officer, VP Steve Schultz on accreditation mid-term report	2/1/2008	5/1/2008	None
Program review data	Compile program review data for 2007-08 based on revised division structure	8/28/2008	10/15/2008	Oracle Discoverer reliability and limitations	Complete
Program review posting	Monitor program review progress and post completed reviews to web site	10/1/2008	5/15/2008	Completion of reviews	Ongoing
Program review process	Work with administration, division chairs and CLC to revise program review process	10/1/2008	12/15/2008	None	In progress
Cost analysis. data. Start mid-September; complete early October.	Work with director of administrative services to complete cost analysis, starting with program review	10/15/2008	11/15/2008	Depends on completion of program review data	Complete
IR Office Feedback	(per 2006 IR Program Review) Work with College Learning Council to review list of surveys, projects, and regular reports that are or should be completed by the IR office.	10/15/2008	12/15/2008	None

Annual/regular reports supporting institutional effectiveness
Retention & success data by method of delivery	(per accreditation self-study item II.A.1.b) Compile course retention & success data by method of delivery	10/15/2008	11/15/2008	Oracle Discoverer reliability and limitations
Annual persistence report.	Complete persistence report from MIS data	3/1/2009	4/30/2009	New MIS files
Awards report	Degrees and certificates report by major and year	10/15/2008	11/30/2008	Oracle Discoverer reliability and limitations
Fall-term demographics	Compile fall-term demographics	1/26/2009	2/28/2009	Oracle Discoverer reliability and limitations
High school student profile	Profile of incoming High School Students	2/20/2009	4/30/2009	Oracle Discoverer reliability and limitations

Student Learning Outcomes
Support Outcome Process	Act as resource for faculty as they plan assessment of SLOs. provide feedback on validity of assessment plans. Help develop options for assessing institutional SLOs	Ongoing	Ongoing

Evaluation support
Evaluate calendar change	Working with Academic Senate, compile data to evaluate effect of change from 17.5-week to 16-week calendar on student success	9/19/2008	3/15/2009	Oracle Discoverer reliability and limitations; Senate still determining parameters of project	In progress

New or one-time projects
Convert Oracle Discoverer reports	Convert reports currently using SWRPROD or other existing views to new IR views as they become available and validated	9/15/2008	4/30/2008	Oracle Discoverer reliability and limitations
Cohort study	Begin cohort study of developmental education sequences, starting with English writing sequence.	2/8/2009	4/15/2009	Oracle Discoverer reliability and limitations