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ECE Program Outcomes Measures

As part of the program’s achieving and maintaining NAEYC accreditation, it must report annually on at least three of the following measures and display these data via an easily located link on its website. The program is strongly encouraged to meet with its Institutional Research (IR) office to assist in gathering the data on the outcome measures. Below are suggested data reporting templates, but the program is encouraged to report the data in a format that best meets its program needs.  For institutions with more than one accredited program, data must be disaggregated and reported for each program.

1)    Outcome Measure #1: The Number of Program Completers

In the chart below, please indicate the number of program completers for the three most recent academic years. (note: the percentages in each row should add up to 100%)

Academic Year

Number of program completers

% of program completers who were attending full-time (at the time of completion)

% of program completers who were attending part-time[1] (at the time of completion)

2021-2022

13

15.4%

84.6%

2022-2023

10

40.0%

60.0%

2023-2024

13

38.5%

61.5%

 

2)   Outcome Measure #2:  The Program Completion Rate

What is the published timeframe for full-time candidates to complete the early childhood program(s) included in this Annual Report?  
5 semesters

In the following chart, please indicate the percentage of full-time candidates completing the program within the program's published timeframe (institutions submitting multiple programs in a single Annual Report should complete a separate chart for each program) for the three most recent academic years for which the program has data.  The program must complete the information for the 150% indicator and choose to report on either the 100%, 200% (or twice) or 300% (three times) indicator.  The academic years selected must fall within eight years of the date this annual report is submitted. If reporting on the 200% or 300% measure, the percentage of completers who finished within this time frame will include those counted in the 150% measure.

Example:  A program with a published timeline of two years (four semesters at 15 credits a semester) to complete an A.A.S. in Early Childhood could select a Fall 2011 cohort on which to report.  At the 150% indicator, it would report on the members of the Fall 2011 cohort (full-time at the time of enrollment) who completed the program by Spring 2014. At the 100% indicator it would report on the members of the Fall 2011 cohort who completed the program by Spring 2013. At the 200% indicator it would report on the members of the Fall 2011 cohort who completed the program by Spring 2015. At the 300% indicator it would report on the members of the Fall 2011 cohort who completed the program by Spring 2017.

Program Name: Early Childhood Development

First Time Full Time

 

Within 150%

Within 200%

Term

Cohort Size

#

%

#

%

Fall 2017

17

4

23.5%

4

23.5%

Fall 2018

19

6

31.6%

7

36.8%

Fall 2019

28

7

25.0%

8

28.6%

 

This is a difficult and inauthentic measurement for our program.  Lower numbers of full-time students skew this data.  Many ECE students have begun this program after starting in other majors or even after completing other degrees, thus first-time, full-time ECE major status is not our typical student.  Additionally, we are an open-enrollment college and program, allowing any student to declare an ECE major, regardless of desire or ability.  We are still fighting the perception that ECE is a babysitting preparation program, and are trying to strengthen our name as an applied science program.

3)       Outcome Measure #3:  Institutional Selected Data

Institutionally designed measure that speaks to candidate outcomes in the program (list the measure and the data for the measure). The data must be reported for the most recent three academic years. Such measures might include the average GPA of the graduating class, the number of candidates who completed their courses with a “C” or above, the pass rate on national performance assessments such as edTPA, etc.

Academic Year

Outcome Measure

Average GPA

Number of Graduates

2021-2022

Average Final GPA

3.34

13

2022-2023

Average Final GPA

3.53

10

2023-2024

Average Final GPA

3.24

13

 

[1] Part-time status is defined by the institution.

[2] “The Commission defines the published timeframe as the number of terms an individual student was actually enrolled in the program. The terms do not have to be consecutive, but the total number of terms must meet the program’s expected time frame for completion. University-approved withdrawals (e.g., leaves of absence for reasons of health, maternity/paternity, mission work, military assignment) do not count toward the number of terms a student was enrolled in the program. Students taking longer due to reasons other than university-approved withdrawals (e.g., course repeats, remediation plans) cannot be considered as meeting completion expectations.” Language adapted from the Council on Academic Accreditation for Audiology, Speech Language Pathology of the American Speech Language Hearing Association at http://caa.asha.org/news/calculating-program-completion-rates/.