Retention/Graduation/Transfer Data
IPEDS Data Feedback Report
The Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System from the National Center for Education Statistics data feedback report graphically summarizes institutional data and compares the data with peer institutions.
The Student Achievement Measure (SAM) is an improved way to report undergraduate student progress and completion by including a greater proportion of students as well as tracking students who enroll in multiple higher education institutions. Usual measures of student progress and completion, including government-led efforts, usually under-report student achievement because they do not account for an increasingly mobile student population.
Student Achievement Measure (SAM) Data
The VFA is the principle accountability framework for community colleges with measures defined to encompass the full breadth of the community college mission and the diversity of students’ goals and educational experiences. The mission-appropriate measures determine how well community colleges are serving students; provide colleges the ability to identify problems and set goals or institutional improvement; and be properly accountable to stakeholders.
