Learning Community Impact Study

February 3, 2009

The following links provide an example of integrating different kinds of institutional data into an Inquiry into student learning. The Inquiry focused on understanding the impact a new learning community was having on participating students. It tracks the founding cohort of learning community students over a year and a half, looking at their rates of engagement, learning, success, retention, persistence, and progress in the curriculum, and comparing these to students who enrolled in comparable non-learning community classes at the same time. As part of an equity analysis, the data is also disaggregated by age and ethnicity, showing that the program had a positive impact on the achievement gap African-American and Latino students often experience in the English curriculum.

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