Determining the Method for Awarding Colleges for Student Achievement Awarding Methodology Description Focus on… Pros Cons Net Point Gain The increase (change) in total Improvement in  Can be used to easily discuss and  Is influenced by over- (Current Method: Primary) points generated by a college Productivity demonstrate improvement. enrollments. from one year to the next year. Is a college  Each college is measured against (Current Method: Primary - Each increasing total itself, not compared to others.  It is difficult to identify what point gained from the previous year points generated by practices influenced the net is paid a fixed dollar amount.) students from year point gain. to year? Points per Student The number of points generated Efficiency  Can be used to determine how  Is dependent on which students (Current Method: Secondary) by a college for transfer, prof Is a college moving well colleges perform regardless of are being included and the tech, and basic skills students their students college enrollment size. accuracy of the student intent divided by the number of through the coding. students with those intent maximum possible  Currently doesn’t lend itself to a codes. (Current Method: number of point neutral harvesting method (i.e., Secondary – If a college has no milestones? way of establishing a funding point gain, but does experience an pool). increase in points per student, then the new points per student are  Use in current method as a multiplied by the previous year’s secondary distribution method is enrollment value; the difference not well understood. between this product and the previous year’s total points is calculated; each point in the difference is paid a fixed dollar amount.) Total Points The total number of points Productivity  Easy for a college to see which  Is influenced by enrollments. generated by a college for an Is a college moving students are earning points. academic year. students through (Colleges can analyze points by mission milestones? area and for student characteristics.)  Is influenced by enrollments. Total Completions Calls out from the ‘Tipping Effectiveness  Can be used to easily discuss and  Completions are already counted (Added for consideration after Point’ milestone the total Is a college moving demonstrate success and as a point in SAI. This creates an WACTC discussion) number of degrees, their students to a reinforces the national completion added emphasis for completions apprenticeships, and certificates point of receiving a agenda. beyond the framework. earned. degree or certificate?  Would need to re-visit how to count certificates.

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Awarding based… Description Focus on… Pros Cons Share of Points Bases award distribution on a Distributing a Fixed  Allows for 100% distribution of  A college outcome is influenced college’s share of a total Amount of Funding funding provided. by the outcome of other amount of points generated by colleges. the system.  Is influenced by enrollments. Dollar amount per point Assigns a fixed dollar value to a Paying for output  Allows for easy calculation of a  Low system point totals can (Current Method) point then awards based on The more points, the college’s award totals (i.e., it isn’t leave unspent funds in the pool points generated. larger the award. dependent on knowing what other (i.e., not distributed). colleges are doing, as with shares).

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