ELAC Educational Master Plan - East Los Angeles College

Fill Rate by Relative Time of Day
Relative
Day
6AM-8AM
Start
8AM-10AM
Start
10AM-Noon
Start
Noon-2PM
Start
2PM-4PM
Start
4PM-6PM
Start
6PM or
Later Start
-60 81.0% 88.6% 88.0% 89.4% 82.1% 81.0% 82.2%
-30 88.3% 94.4% 94.3% 97.3% 89.9% 88.3% 92.0%
-15 92.1% 95.9% 97.0% 99.6% 92.1% 92.1% 95.0%
-7 92.7% 95.8% 97.3% 99.4% 90.3% 92.7% 95.2%
0 95.5% 96.9% 98.0% 102.0% 91.1% 95.5% 93.2%
Course Availability by Time of Day
Time of Day
Fall 2010 Spring 2011 Fall 2011
Sections Sec Limit Sections Sec Limit Sections Sec Limit
10AM-Noon Start 210 8,043 205 8,079 207 7,965
2PM-4PM Start 135 5,516 172 6,112 144 5,789
4PM-6PM Start 105 3,514 114 4,151 104 3,617
6AM-8AM Start 152 4,917 170 5,395 163 5,204
6PM or Later Start 334 13,281 359 14,228 329 13,253
8AM-10AM Start 345 13,524 361 13,786 341 13,648
Noon-2PM Start 253 9,603 271 10,329 271 10,317
TBA 346 18,458 346 20,036 320 17,640
Total 1,880 76,856 1,998 82,116 1,879 77,433
What is the Impact of Counseling on Student Success?
The Educational Planning Subcommittee requested data to determine the impact of receiving counseling
and/or an educational plan on student success. The only available data that could be used in this type of
analysis comes from the Counseling Department’s scheduling system (i.e. SARS). Unfortunately, the data
in this system suffers from a number of flaws, some of which are serious. First, the data simply lists the
appointments that were made. There is no variable in the data system which indicates whether a student
actually showed up for the appointment or not. Next, assuming that a student did go to the Counseling
session, there is no information on what Counseling services the student received at the session (i.e.,
received an educational plan, discussed transfer options, discussed different majors, etc.). There is a code
which indicates the reason a student made the appointment, but there are a few problems with it. First,
there is no indication that a student’s reason for making an appointment was the same as what was
actually discussed at the session. Further, many of the students came in for “general advisement”, which
gives very little usable information.
Looking beyond the SARS system, OIE found out that the Counseling Department does not keep
computerized records of the students that have received an educational plan. Rather, the department only
keeps hard copies of educational plans for three years. Given the length of time it takes many students to
complete their educational goals at ELAC, even if the educational plans were entered into a computer
system, we would not have complete data for a large percentage of students.
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