As part of the statewide Talent Strong Texas Pathways strategy, the Texas Success Center has launched a research agenda to inform policy, improve community college practice, develop practitioner-oriented guidance and tools, and provide training, technical assistance, and professional development. Projects are selected to support the ongoing efforts of Texas Pathways colleges as they redesign the student experience.
2024 Scale of Adoption Assessment
The Texas Success Center is dedicated to evaluating our statewide student success strategy—Talent Strong Texas Pathways—and using the information to provide meaningful support to all Texas community colleges. To accomplish this, we collect information on the implementation of the essential practices of the guided pathways strategy, student outcome key performance indicators (KPIs), and the student voice.
The Scale of Adoption Assessment (SOAA) is the process by which we learn how each college is redesigning the student experience through Talent Strong Texas Pathways. The SOAA process includes a self-assessment survey and a follow-up interview. Understanding the level of implementation of each essential practice allows the Center to design supports, institutes, and coaching to be valuable partners with each college as they work to continuously improve. The SOAA is a companion tool to our KPIs and student voice data.
Texas community colleges will participate in the 2024 SOAA process in Summer and Fall 2024!