Program Reviews

The Adult Basic Education Office at SBCTC conducts in-person monitoring visits of local basic skills providers to ensure compliance with the National Reporting System (NRS). Visits are conducted based on these principles:

• Demonstrating the inter-relationship of data and program performance--how data affect program performance and how performance affects data;
• Exploring ways to monitor programs to enhance the connection between performance and data; and
• Discussing ways to identify and implement program improvement efforts.

NRS stipulates that the state adult education office ensures data quality by monitoring local programs to identify if the providers are:

• adopting and implementing the state standardized test (CASAS),
• using the state data management system (WABERS),
• employing a student goal-setting process (Educational Interview or similar process),
• using a local data management system to ensure data access, accuracy, and reliability and to ensure that local staff are conducting regular data-checking,
• using data for program improvement and in program design,
• ensuring that students with functional limitations can access the test and classroom modifications required to demonstrate their educational development and achievements (universal design).

For further information, contact Robin Thompson at rthompson@sbctc.edu.