FUNDED PROGRAMS AWARDED 94/95

Project Title: Basic Skills Consortium
Project Director: D. I. Dinneen
Organization: Victor Valley College
Phone: (760)245-4271,ext.2384

The Basic Skills Program Victor Valley College will enter a consortium with: the Basic Adult Education Program, Rancho Santiago Community College; and the OASIS Program, Learning Assistance Center, Pasadena City College.

The overriding goal and primary consortia study will be to determine the most effective integration of technical resources with teacher or paraprofessional intervention or support. Victor Valley College seeks 15 percent greater retention and an average grade equivelent improvement of 3.00 on the TABE.

A final goal will be to design, install, and use a single program or methodolgy which will provide centeralized data collection for individual student information: pre and post test results, curriculum sequence(s), time spent on lessons and/or human intervention, and course completion.

Activities include: using a recordkeeping method to determine the level, frequency, and timing of human intervention in basic skills open lab delivery; composing and compiling a student survey on the same issue; and making program changes to reflect results of those studies. The consortia will also gather program material/media lists, and a survey of fifty students' goals, goal realization and program satisfaction.