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Research Office
Title: Digital Teaching and Learning Communities: CAHSEE Prep Initiative – Math
Principal Investigator: Elizabeth Yeager
Total Project Amount: $76,445
Agency: Butte-Glenn Community College District
Project Dates: 04/01/2007 – 09/30/2008
Abstract:
As of October 31, 2006, approximately 28,000 students in the Class of
2006 had not passed the Math portion of the California High School Exit
Exam (CAHSEE). It is estimated that nearly one-half of the students in
this group also need additional coursework (i.e. units) in order to
graduate. The Lake Tahoe Unified School District, one partner with Lake Tahoe Community College in the CAHSEE Prep Initiative, has identified, for example, 56 members of the Class of 2006 who did not pass the Math portion of the exam, while the Los Angeles Unified School District, a second K-12 district partner, has identified 1844 members who did not pass that portion.
The CAHSEE Preparation Initiative: Math seeks to help students in the Class of 2006 who have not yet passed the Math portion of the CAHSEE. The intersegmental collaboration represented by the CAHSEE Initiative partnership will ultimately afford students across the state access to an innovative and comprehensive instructional program that includes introductory and ongoing face2face meetings, the use of multiple interactive technologies (e.g., online collaboration with instructors and students via online video conferencing, e-conferencing), and high quality online learning resources accessible “any place, any time.” This project has been designed in tandem with a parallel proposal submitted by Butte Community College that will prepare students across the state to pass the English Language Arts portion of the exam.
The CAHSEE Prep Math Initiative will, in the short term, provide services to at least 500 students, primarily in the Los Angeles and Lake Tahoe regions, identified by LAUSD and LTUSD through district data bases as well as adult school enrollments (LAUSD), as not having passed the math portion of the CAHSEE. In the long term, the CAHSEE Initiative will address statewide needs by making the project’s comprehensive technology-based model (and its accompanying resources) available to other community colleges, instructors and their students, on a statewide basis.