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Scaling Up Breaking Through: 2010 Evaluations

Breaking Through has engaged over 40 colleges across the country in redesigning programs to help low-skilled adults acquire the skills necessary to succeed in postsecondary education and attain credentials. In studies of colleges that scaled up successful pilot programs, Breaking Through participants demonstrated significantly higher rates of retention, course completion, and higher skill gains than non-Breaking Through students. These studies, produced with funding from the Charles Stewart Mott Foundation, are:

Breaking Through is a collaboration of JFF and the National Council for Workforce Education.

2010
Elisabeth Barnett, Debra D. Bragg, Elaine Delott Baker, and Margaret Puryear
http://www.jff.org/publications/education/scaling-breaking-through-2010-evaluati...
Community College Data and Performance Measurement Toolkit

This toolkit, prepared for the Bridges to Opportunity initiative, describes how states can use longitudinal data on community college students for program improvement and evaluation. It includes case studies of states that have used data systematically and strategically to drive institutional change.

2008
Peter Ewell
University of Texas at Austin
http://www.communitycollegecentral.org/Downloads/Data_Performance_TOOLKIT.pdf
Calculating the Productivity of Innovation: Using a Simplified Cost-Benefit Analysis to Promote Effective Practice

The study discussed in this report examined how a cost-benefit analysis system could be used to evaluate the long term fiscal and outcomes impacts of innovative programs, such as integrated ESL classes or adult development education. This approach is novel because in more commonly used enrollment-driven approaches to evaluation, program improvement is seen as a cost rather than a potential investment in increased retention, and by extension, revenues.

2009
Kristin Corash and Elaine DeLott Baker
Colorado Community College System
http://www.communitycollegecentral.org/StateInitiatives/Colorado/ColoradoCost_Be...
Steps for Evaluating (And Continuously Improving) Career Pathways Programs

This document recommends steps for evaluating and continuously improving career pathways programs.

2005
Davis Jenkins
Workforce Strategy Center
http://www.workforcestrategy.org/images/pdfs/publications/Evaluate_Career_Pathwa...