Research + Planning
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Research + Planning
4000 Suisun Valley Road
Building 600
Fairfield, CA 94534
research.helpdesk@solano.edu
Research + Planning
Our mission is to provide support for the program evaluation and planning needs of the institution through the collection and analysis of both demographic and survey data. Our goals are:
- To meet the data/analysis needs of the requestor in a timely manner, based on the best available data; and
- To present findings in clear, concise, and easy-to-understand/useful formats.
The areas for which we provide support include the review and evaluation of the Instructional and Matriculation programs, the validation of placement tests, the evaluation of disproportionate impact, the validation of course prerequisites, and the assessment of student needs. Upon request, we can prepare contact lists, mailing labels, and/or custom reports on defined student subpopulations. We also serve as a resource for the design and development of data collection instruments (surveys).
To make a request for data or dashboard creation, please email Research.Helpdesk@solano.edu with a description of what you will need and roughly when you will need it. A member of our team will then be able to reach out to you to cover timelines and additional information. Please submit your request at least two weeks prior to the date the data are needed. Please be aware that some data requests may take longer, so feel free to submit the ticket as early as you identify the need.
For emergency requests, please include the word “Emergency” in the subject of your email, and we will evaluate the process under an expedited timeline.
Our online interactive factbook contains demographic, student success, distance education and graduation data. The data can be filtered on a number of academic and student dimensions. See "How to use the Online Interactive Factbook" below.
Navigate the interactive data sets by selecting and clicking to open one of the tabs listed in the interactive workbook.
The options are: Demographics, Student AcAdemics, Student Location, Student Success, Student Success XTab, Distance Education, Awards, and Graduate Map.
DEMOGRAPHICS
This dashboard shows basic demographic information about a specific student cohort selected using the filters on the left-hand side. The filters available are:
- Semester
- Term
- Ethnicity
- Gender
- Section Location
- Semesters Attended
- Discipline
STUDENT ACADEMICS
This dashboard shows a variety of data related to a student’s academic standing and goals.
STUDENT LOCATION
This dashboard shows information about students by location. This includes a map based on zip code, section location for enrolled courses as well as high school.
STUDENT SUCCESS
This dashboard is used to display student headcounts and success rates over time for the selected cohort. A number of filters can be applied to narrow down the cohort. These include:
- Semester
- Term
- Ethnicity
- Gender
- Number of Semesters Attended
- Course Division
- Discipline
- Schedule Type
- Section Location
- Course
The upper chart simply shows the headcount of the selected cohort. The lower chart shows the success rate as a red line. The grey area shows the institution average success rate to use as a comparison.
STUDENT SUCCESS XTab
The student success crosstab is used to quickly identify courses that have high enrollments but low success rates. The horizontal axis shows the number of enrollments in the course, the vertical axis shows the average success rate.
The lower chart shows the number of students that have been ‘lost’. This is defined as the number of students that would need to be successful in order for the course to have a success rate at the institution average. This combines the two measurements of enrollment and success rate into a single measure.
The 2 dashboards can be filtered by:
- Semester
- Term
- Course Division
- Course Subject
- Schedule
DISTANCE EDUCATION
This dashboard is used to look at and compare enrollments and success rates in distance education courses. The overall selection for this view is all courses that have an online component with at least 5 students enrolled. Only the top 20 courses (by distance education enrollments) will be displayed.
The charts can be filtered by:
- Semester
- Term
- Discipline
AWARDS
This dashboard shows information related to awards given to students. The user can filter the date by:
- Graduating Major
- Degree Type
- Graduation Year
Additionally, you can view an analysis group to split the data by:
- Ethnicity
- First generation
- Gender
- Transfer Students
- Veteran
- Economically disadvantaged
GRADUATE MAP
This dashboard shows information about awarded graduates by location.
This worksheet contains Labor Market data for Solano County and California. Includes wage, openings and job growth data by occupation. Source: https://data.ca.gov/dataset/long-term-occupational-employment-projections
[LABOR MARKET BOOK TO BE EMBEDDED HERE - PLEASE CHECK BACK SOON]
The Chancellor’s Office of the California Community College System collects enrollment, demographic, and other student data from all its constituent institutions within 30 days after the end of each term. These data may be accessed via the Management Information System (MIS) Data Mart at the college, district, and statewide levels by term and academic year. The Data Mart contains several pre-defined reports that are available to the public. It allows for the easy development of these reports, and the download of aggregate data in comma-delimited files for analysis and longitudinal tracking. Usually one or more criteria (for example: student age category, gender, enrollment status, ethnicity, or instructional discipline) can be used to group the output data on the reports.
Select the Queries option to access Students, Courses, Student Services, Outcomes and Faculty & Staff information
Demographics on Primary Feeder High Schools
Each fall term about 1,000 recent high school graduates enroll at Solano Community College. The greater majority of these are from local (Solano County) high schools. The following twelve “feeder” schools each contribute from two to eleven percent of SCC’s incoming recent high school graduates:
- Angelo Rodriguez High
- Armijo High
- Benicia High
- Bethel (Jesse M.) High
- Buckingham (Elise P.) Charter
- Dixon High
- Fairfield High
- Hogan High
- Vacaville High
- Vallejo High
- Vanden High
- Wood (Will C.) High
The following link will take you to the California Department of Education (CDE) website, including the Ed-Data site (an outside data source). At this CDE Data & Statistics website, you will be able to locate the school profile, student demographics, and performance each school in Solano County.
- The California Assessment of Student Performance and Progress (CASPP) CAASPP Description – CalEdFacts (CA Dept of Education) was established on January 1, 2014 and replaced the Standardized Testing & Reporting Program (STAR).
- The following is the link to the CAASP results page: CAASPP Test Results – CAASPP Reporting (CA Dept of Education) (ets.org)
How to use DataVista
DataVista, a statewide data system supported by the California Community Colleges
Chancellor's Office, provides data on progress, success, employment, and earnings
outcomes for California community college students.
The Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) is sponsored by the National Center for Educational Statistics (NCES), a unit under the federal Department of Education. The College is a recipient of federal funds and, as such, is required to submit annual reports to IPEDS. One of the outcomes is a custom report from IPEDS comparing metrics from Solano Community College with the median of similar select institutions.
[IPEDS REPORT2022 TO BE EMBEDDED HERE - PLEASE CHECK BACK SOON]