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Causes: Education
Mission: Through professional development and research, the rp group strengthens the ability of california community colleges to undertake high quality research, planning, and assessments that improve evidence-based decisionmaking, institutional effectiveness, and success for all students.
Programs: Research and evaluation contracts-multi-year contract with butte-glenn ccd to implement the chancellor's office common assessment, online education and education planning initiatives-contracts with the chancellor's office to implement applied solution kits for the institutional effectiveness partnership initiative-various fee for service contracts and initiatives providing research, evaluation and technical assistance services were undertaken on behalf of clients and organizations to address issues within the california community college system.
professional developmentamong multiple professional development and outreach initiatives, accomplishments include:-strengthening student success conference - approximately 800 professionals learned how to work more strategically for change on their campus and strengthen how they engage with students-the rp conference - with 150 attendees, the rp conference works to develop skills of institutional researchers amongst all 113 california community colleges-summer institute - provided professional development to new community college institutional researchers-student learning outcomes support - disseminated effective practices through various conference sessions-regional research groups- small groups met at multiple points throughout the year to share knowledge on research and planning-leading from the middle academy - several face-to-face professional development forums-designed and developed applied solution kits in a variety of content areas for the institutional effectiveness partnership initiative