Accessing Data
The district utilizes multiple self-service tools that are available to employees to access data at any time, from anywhere. Additional data tools are available to the public to explore enrollment trends and student success. Below are a list of data sources to explore.
The following glossary defines many key terms and provides useful formulas:
Precision Campus (internal)
The district and colleges utilize a self-service tool called, Precision Campus which allows users to explore enrollment trends, student outcomes including course success, disproportionate impacts and degree and certificate outcomes. It also provides users with information to inform program review and resource allocation processes.
For more information on how to access Precision Campus, please utilize the How-to guides below:
- Program Review: access the program review data and create a PDF of the data
- Enrollment and Course Success: explore the program review data further such as comparing two or more course/student characteristics
- Degrees and Certificates: access degree and certificate data and disaggregate by award type, major and ethnicity
- Course Success with Disproportionate Impact: explore disproportionate impacts by student group
- Course Success with Equity Gaps (Instructor Level): explore course success rates for individual instructors
- Create a custom Student Cohort: create and manage a custom student cohort to track outcomes for specific groups of students
- Term to Term Persistence: access a report that tracks students from one term to the subsequent term
- Productivity Measures: access the scheduling tool to display enrollment, fill rates, sections, FTEF, FTES, load, productivity and WSCH at the section level
- Enrollment History by Course: for deans to display course enrollment history, fill rates, drop rates, success rates and equity gaps by section
- Course Meeting Times: for deans and schedulers to display meetings times for in-person courses by day and time
District Inquity Tool (internal)
How-to guide to access the Inquiry Tool to explore course success, non success and withdraw rates by section.
Enrollment Dashboard (public)
The link below provides a daily comparison of enrollment at both colleges compared to the same timeframe the prior year.
Student Success Dashboards (public)
The Chancellor for the California Community College's Vision 2030 calls upon community colleges to remove equity gaps in access, success and support. The dashboard below allows users to explore course success rates by department and course at either De Anza of Foothill College. As a district, we recognize that barriers to student success exist both outside and inside the college and that we cannot address all barriers in which a student faces, but can work towards addressing those within our purview in the classroom and on campus. Section level data, and the variation in outcomes across sections of the same course, can lead to important departmental discussions around strategies and approaches to narrowing our long-standing equity gaps. Randomized section level data is displayed below to display equity trends and variations in outcomes.
Questions to consider when viewing student success dashboards:
- What are the overall course success and retention rates? How do these rates vary by course or department?
- What is the overall equity gap? How does the equity gap vary by section or department?
- Which student ethnic group's course success rate tends to be above the college average? Which student ethnic group's course success rate tends to be below the college average?
- In what spaces could discussion occur to improve these rates through teaching and learning and support strategies? Who should be included in the discussion?