Reports and Briefs

It is our commitment to make the knowledge we develop accessible to all who can use it to advance student success. The following reports are available to read and share.

 

California’s Education Systems: A Sum of the Moving Parts

We commissioned this working paper for the California Education Policy Fellowship Program (EPFP) because we had a hard time finding one current source…

CATEGORIES > Career and Technical Education, College and Career Readiness and Success, Reports and Briefs, State and System Policy
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INFOGRAPHIC: California’s Existing Student Data Framework vs. a Centralized Data Warehouse Model

Infographics developed for the series California Education Policy, Student Data and the Quest to Improve Student Progress comparing the difference between a California’s existing student data framework and a centralized data warehouse model.

CATEGORIES > College and Career Readiness and Success, Data, Reports and Briefs, State and System Policy
TAGS > California Community Colleges, College and Career Readiness, Completion, CSU, Data, Policy, Student Progress, Student Success, UC

California Education Policy, Student Data, and the Quest to Improve Student Progress

California Education Policy, Student Data and the Quest to Improve Student Progress examines California’s approach to gathering and sharing data on student progress through the public education system. The four reports in the series look into the perspectives of state and local leaders with regard to the responsibility for gathering and sharing statewide educational data across systems.

CATEGORIES > Career and Technical Education, Data, K-12 Reform, Postsecondary Reform, Reports and Briefs, State and System Policy
TAGS > California Community Colleges, College and Career Readiness, Completion, CSU, Data, Policy, Student Progress, Student Success, UC

Destination Integration: Strategies to Improve Academic Advising

Destination Integration: Strategies to Improve Academic Advising

Many campuses across the California State University (CSU) system are seeking to improve academic advising as part of their efforts to increase student progress and graduation rates. In this exploratory study of efforts to improve academic advising at five CSU campuses, researchers at the Education Insights Center (EdInsights) working on behalf of the CSU Student Success Network identified a focus across the participating campuses on better coordinating advising services across colleges, divisions, and departments and improving their integration with other campus units, such as tutoring, career centers, and financial aid. Through their efforts, these campuses seek to better leverage their limited advising resources to improve student outcomes. This report, based on in-depth interviews with 36 administrators involved in improving advising, describes the campuses’ efforts and the context in which they are occurring.

CATEGORIES > College and Career Readiness and Success, Postsecondary Reform, Reports and Briefs
TAGS > Academic Advising, Equity, Student Engagement

A Hunger for Information: California’s Options to Meet its Statewide Education Data Needs

This brief is the final in a four-part series examining California’s approach to gathering and sharing longitudinal data about students’ progress through the state’s education systems.

CATEGORIES > College and Career Readiness and Success, Data, K-12 Reform, Postsecondary Reform, Reports and Briefs, State and System Policy
TAGS > California Community Colleges, College and Career Readiness, Completion, CSU, Data, Policy, Student Progress, Student Success, UC

“Get Me from point A to Point B:” Student Perspectives on Barriers to Timely Graduation at the California State University

Nearly all students enter the California State University system intending to graduate “on time,” and graduation rates are increasing systemwide. Currently, less than a quarter of incoming freshmen graduate within four years and a third of community college transfer students graduate in two years. This study investigates the personal and institutional obstacles that students experience as they navigate through college on the pathway to timely graduation.

CATEGORIES > Career and Technical Education, College and Career Readiness and Success, K-12 Reform, Postsecondary Reform, Regional Education Partnerships, Reports and Briefs, State and System Policy
TAGS > Advising, College Readiness, Completion, CSU, Graduation Initiative 2025, Impaction, Student Progress, Student Success, Transfer

Scaling Goodwill: The Challenges of Implementing Robust Education Data Sharing Through Regional Partnerships

This brief is the third in a four-part series examining California’s approach to gathering and sharing longitudinal data about students’ progress through the state’s education systems.

CATEGORIES > Data, Postsecondary Reform, Regional Education Partnerships, Reports and Briefs, State and System Policy
TAGS > California Community Colleges, College and Career Readiness, Completion, CSU, Data, Policy, Student Success, UC

Searching for Measures of College and Career Readiness: the Perspectives of Students, Teachers, Administrators and State and County Officials

This report finds that students, teachers and local administrators embrace California’s commitment to college and career readiness (CCR), but have deep concerns about implementation.

CATEGORIES > College and Career Readiness and Success, K-12 Reform, Reports and Briefs, State and System Policy
TAGS > Caifornia, Educators, Evaluation, Pathway, Policymakers, Postsecondary, Research

From Scatterplot to Roadmap: New Efforts to Improve Student Success in the California State University

This report aims to provide campus and system leaders with a scan of the current state of reform within the CSU, together with contextual insight into the obstacles and possibilities for broader scale adoption of coordinated, systemic change.

CATEGORIES > Postsecondary Reform, Reports and Briefs, State and System Policy
TAGS > Academic Engagement, Advising, Collaboration, Completion, Data, Degree Pathways, Governance, Graduation Initiative 2025, Leadership, Student Success

California’s Maze of Student Information: Education Data Systems Leave Critical Questions Unanswered

This brief is the second in a series that is examining California’s approach to gathering and sharing longitudinal data about students’ progress through state’s education systems.

CATEGORIES > College and Career Readiness and Success, Data, K-12 Reform, Postsecondary Reform, Reports and Briefs, State and System Policy
TAGS > California Community Colleges, College and Career Readiness, Completion, CSU, Data, Policy, Student Progress, Student Success, UC