Metrics
50 File views/ downloads
22 Record Views
Dissertation
Student Outcomes and Retention Data Use: Exploring Community College Faculty Perception
University of West Florida Libraries
Doctor of Education (EDD), University of West Florida
2025
Abstract
Faculty members at community colleges in the Achieving the Dream (ATD) network have not consistently used student outcomes and retention data to make classroom changes, despite ATD’s focus on helping colleges sustainably engage faculty members to use disaggregated achievement data in decreasing barriers to student success (Cerna et al., 2022). In this qualitative case study, I explored the self-efficacy perceptions of ATD-trained faculty members using student outcomes and retention data to make classroom changes using a semistructured protocol to interview seven full-time and four adjunct faculty participants from a public community college in the southeast region of the United States. I used Bandura’s (1977a, 1994) self-efficacy construct as the theoretical framework. Based on participants’ responses, I concluded that ATD-trained faculty members: use student outcomes data to inform and guide pedagogical changes and innovate their classrooms; incorporate care, compassion, student engagement, and help in their strategies to assist students to persist; and receive constructive feedback from multiple sources that provides insight into student outcomes and retention data. Negative emotional arousal related to using student outcomes or retention data does not automatically prevent them from trying future classroom changes. Also, their perceived self-efficacy in using student outcomes and retention data to make classroom changes is attributable to their mastery experience because practicing over time helps them know how to use student data. Future research could investigate the types of data, the patterns of data usage, and the extent to which ATD-trained faculty members use various data types to make classroom changes.
Details
- Title
- Student Outcomes and Retention Data Use
- Resource Type
- Dissertation
- Contributors
- Melanie DiLoreto (Advisor)Michele Parker (Committee Member)
- Publisher
- University of West Florida Libraries; Argo Scholar Commons
- Format
- pdf
- Number of pages
- 366
- Copyright
- Unpublished work © Cory Aaron Potter
- Identifiers
- 99381356972006600
- Academic Unit
- School of Education
- Language
- English
- Awarding Institution
- University of West Florida; Doctor of Education (EDD)
- Theses and Dissertations
- Doctor of Education (EDD), University of West Florida