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155A: Low Literacy Reportable Individuals

Among all Reportable Individuals (200A), the number who were ever flagged as being unable to read, write, and speak in English, or compute and solve problems.

CAEP Adult Learners

156A: Migrant Farmworker Reportable Individuals

Among all Reportable Individuals (200A), the number who were flagged as migrant workers in the selected year.

CAEP Adult Learners

157A: Seasonal Farmworker Reportable Individuals

Among all Reportable Individuals (200A), the number who were flagged as seasonal farm workers in the selected year.

CAEP Adult Learners

158A: Exhausting TANF within Two Years Reportable Individuals

Among all Reportable Individuals (200A), the number who were flagged as being within two years of exhausting TANF in the selected year.

CAEP Adult Learners

159A: Single Parent Reportable Individuals

Among all Reportable Individuals (200A), the number who were flagged as single parents in the selected year.

CAEP Adult Learners

160A (E): Participants who Took Courses in More than One Program Area

Among all Participants (202A), the number who were enrolled in more than one of program area in the same institution during the year.

CAEP Adult Learners

161A (E): Participants Taking Courses at More than One Adult School or Community College

Among all Participants (202A), the number who had adult education program enrollments at multiple K12 adult schools or community college noncredit programs in the year.

CAEP Adult Learners

200A (E): Reportable Individuals

The number of learners who had one or more hours of instruction or positive attendance hours, across all enrollments in an adult education program, and / or who received services at a K12 adult school or noncredit services at a community college. This metric is also referred to as "Adults Served." Note: Due to the continued challenges noncredit community college institutions have faced in reporting student attendance hours for noncredit distance education courses, the hour threshold requirement in this metric is not enforced for noncredit community college students during spring 2020 and and all terms in 2020-21, 2021-22, 2022-23, or 2023-24. An enrollment record in an adult education program is used as a proxy for the hour threshold component of this metric during the timeframe.

CAEP Adult Learners

201A (E): Students with an Enrollment in an Adult Education Program Who Received Services

Among all Reportable Individuals (200A), the number who had one or more hours in an adult education program and received orientation, assessment, academic and/or career counseling, referral, or other participant related support services. Note: Due to the continued challenges noncredit community college institutions have faced in reporting student attendance hours for noncredit distance education courses, the hour threshold requirement in this metric is not enforced for noncredit community college students during spring 2020 and all terms in 2020-21, 2021-22, 2022-23, or 2023-24. An enrollment record in an adult education program is used as a proxy for the hour threshold component of this metric during the timeframe.

CAEP Adult Learners

202A (E): Students with 12+ Instructional Contact Hours (Participants)

Among all Reportable Individuals (200A), the number who received 12 or more hours of instruction or positive attendance hours, across all enrollments, in an adult education program.

Note: Due to the continued challenges noncredit community college institutions have faced in reporting student attendance hours for noncredit distance education courses, the hour threshold requirement in this metric is not enforced for noncredit community college students during spring 2020 and all terms in 2020-21, 2021-22, 2022-23, or 2023-24. An enrollment record in an adult education program is used as a proxy for the hour threshold component of this metric during the timeframe.

CAEP Adult Learners

203A: Participants who Exited

Among all Participants (202A) in the selected year, the number who had no enrollment in the subsequent year in any adult education program or any community college program. Exiters are not enrolled in postsecondary and are no longer enrolled in adult education for at least one year.

CAEP Adult Learners

203C: All Cohort Students Who Exited Higher Education

Number of students in the cohort who were enrolled in the selected year in any community college and did not enroll in the 4th, 5th or 7th academic year after first term of entry

General Admit Cohort Students

203S (U,W,X,Y,Z): All Students Who Exited Higher Education

Number of students who were enrolled in the selected year in any community college and did not enroll in the subsequent year at any community college or at any postsecondary institution

Comprehensive Snapshot

205A (E): Students without an Enrollment Who Received Services

Among all Reportable Individuals (200A), the number who were not enrolled and received noncredit or adult school support services.

CAEP Adult Learners

206A (E): Students with Noncredit Enrollment Only in Non-Adult Education Program Courses Who Received Noncredit Services

Among all Reportable Individuals (200A), the number who had one or more hours of instruction only in noncredit courses that are NOT within an adult education program area and received noncredit support services.

Note: Due to the continued challenges noncredit community college institutions have faced in reporting student attendance hours for noncredit distance education courses, the hour threshold requirement in this metric is not enforced for noncredit community college students during spring 2020 and all terms in 2020-21, 2021-22, 2022-23, or 2023-24. An enrollment record in an adult education program is used as a proxy for the hour threshold component of this metric during the timeframe.

CAEP Adult Learners

208S (U,W,X,Y,Z): All Students Who Exited Higher Education and Who Were Unemployed Before Entry or Reentry

Number of students who were enrolled in the selected year in any community college and did not enroll in the subsequent year at any community college or at any postsecondary institution and who did not have a wage record in the EDD UI Wage file in the first fiscal quarter before entry

Comprehensive Snapshot

209C (1): Cohort Students Enrolled Full Time in Their First Primary Term (formerly 210C)

Among students in the cohort, the proportion who are enrolled full time in their first primary term

General Admit Cohort Students

209S (A,B,W): Students Enrolled Full Time in Their First Primary Term

Among students in the subjourney, the proportion who are enrolled full time in their first primary term

Comprehensive Snapshot

210A (E): Students with 1 to 11 Instructional Contact Hours

Among all Reportable Individuals (200A), the number who had 1 to 11 hours of instruction or positive attendance hours, across all enrollments, in an adult education program.

Note: Due to the continued challenges noncredit community college institutions have faced in reporting student attendance hours for noncredit distance education courses, the hour threshold requirement in this metric is not enforced for noncredit community college students during spring 2020 and all terms in 2020-21, 2021-22, 2022-23, or 2023-24. An enrollment record in an adult education program is used as a proxy for the hour threshold component of this metric during the timeframe.

CAEP Adult Learners

214C (1): Cohort Students Enrolled Full Time in Their First Year from First Term

Among students in the cohort, the proportion who are enrolled full time in their first year from first term

General Admit Cohort Students

214S (A,B,W): Students Enrolled Full Time in Each Primary Term with Enrollment in the Selected Year

Among students in the subjourney, the proportion who are enrolled full time in each term with enrollment in the selected year

Comprehensive Snapshot

225D (0,1,2,3,4,6): K12 Special Admit Graduation Cohort

All students who enrolled as first-time in higher education special admit credit students in at least one primary term of the selected year with a minimal credit enrollment at the selected college who are tracked at presumed graduation and at the end of one, two, three, four and six years from derived year of high school graduation

K12 Special Admit Students

228A (E): Participants Enrolled in Courses at Adult Schools or Noncredit Courses at Community Colleges and Credit Courses in the Same Program Year

Among all Participants (202A), the number who were also enrolled in credit courses at a community college in the same program year.

CAEP Adult Learners

233C (2,3,4,6): Cohort Students Still Enrolled (in any community college) After Cohort Timeframe

Number of students still enrolled at any community college in the year after the cohort timeline ends who are not found in the transfer bucket

General Admit Cohort Students

235C: All Cohort Students Who Earned 12 or More Units at Any Time at Any Community College and Who Exited California Community College

Number of students in the cohort who were enrolled in the selected year and who did not enroll in the subsequent year at any community college and who earned 12 or more units at any time and at any college

General Admit Cohort Students

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