Hi everyone,
 
Wow, what a super discussion!  So rich and full of great ideas,
interesting comments, excellent questions, and thoughtful challenges.  I
usually contribute more myself but I'm just reading and soaking it in at
this point.  I am cutting and pasting the discussion into a
user-friendly document, which I will make available once our Guest Panel
concludes tomorrow.  
 
We are really covering a lot of ground here!  Just curious (because it
is a focus on mine within the realm of accountability):  a number of
folks have discussed issues of retention and the types of strategies
that they employ in their programming, but I don't think that anyone has
mentioned if they use student-stated goals to track retention, trends in
learning or program offerings, etc.  Perhaps the use of student goals is
more easily applicable at the classroom/teaching level (not sure!), but
I just wanted to know if anyone out there makes programmatic decisions
based in part on the reasons why students come to your programs.  I am
not referring to learning gains (reading, writing, math, ESOL, etc), but
rather to students' ultimate purposes for attending, like getting a
better job, helping kids with homework, buying a home, becoming a
citizen, etc. 
 
Thoughts on this?
 
Thanks!
 
Marie
 
Marie Cora
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Coordinator, LINCS Assessment Special Collection
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