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ERIC TITLE NUMBER: ED317252 AUTHOR:
TITLE: California Community College Accountability Model.
YEAR PUBLISHED: 1990
NOTE: 30 p.
ABSTRACT: In 1990, the California Community Colleges
Assembly Bill 1725 (AB 1725) Accountability Task Force
created an accountability model to provide information which
would facilitate the assessment of community colleges'
educational and fiscal effectiveness. The model contains
five major components and indicators of effectiveness for
each: (1) student access, measured in terms student
enrollment and participation rates; programs to promote
educational access, such as financial aid, basic skills, and
articulation programs; and physical facilities; (2) student
success, measured in terms of academic standards, course
completions, student goal achievement, basic skills and
English as Second Language course preparation assessment,
non-credit adult education, and accreditation standards; (3)
student satisfaction, assessed by surveys of students and
accreditation reports on student services and learning
resources; (4) staff composition reflective of California's
population in terms of ethnicity, gender, age, and
disability; and (5) fiscal condition, involving
comprehensive reporting on revenues and expenditures,
resource allocation, costs per student, program-based
funding, and other financial matters. Appendixes include a
discussion of accountability elements in AB 1725, a list of
groups represented on the task force, and sample reporting
forms. (JMC)
KEY DESCRIPTORS: Accountability-; Accreditation
Institutions; Financial-Policy; Fiscal-Capacity; Models-;
Participant-Satisfaction; School-Personnel; Statewide
Planning; Two-Year-Colleges
KEY DESCRIPTORS: *Academic-Achievement; *Access-to
Education; *Affirmative-Action; *Community-Colleges;
*Educational-Assessment; *Outcomes-of-Education
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