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Research Office
Title: Digital Teaching and Learning Communities: CAHSEE Prep Initiative – English Language Arts
Principal Investigator: Elizabeth Yeager
Total Project Amount: $79,191
Agency: Butte-Glenn Community College District
Project Dates: 04/01/2007 – 09/30/2008
Abstract:
As of October 31, 2006, roughly 25,405 students in the Class of
2006 had not passed the English Language Arts (ELA) 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. While the local Butte area does not have a large number of students who did not pass the ELA portion of the exam, it has the capacity and virtual resources to reach members of the Class of 2006 in other regions where the need is greater. The Los Angeles Unified School District, one partner with Butte Community College in the CAHSEE Prep Initiative has identified 1712 members who did not pass that portion.
The CAHSEE Preparation Initiative: English Language Arts seeks to help adult students from the Class of 2006 who have not yet passed the ELA 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 Lake Tahoe Community College that will prepare students across the state to pass the Math portion of the exam.
The CAHSEE Prep English Language Arts Initiative will, in the short term, provide services to at least 500 students, primarily in the Los Angeles and Butte-Glenn county regions, identified by LAUSD and BCOE, and Butte Community College through district data bases as well as adult school enrollments (LAUSD), as not having passed the ELA 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.