DesignForScale: State Policy Self-Assessment Tool

The product offers a self-assessment based around four categories from the Completion by Design “Preventing Loss, Creating Momentum” framework: Connection; Entry; Progress; and Completion. For each category, it lists questions that can be used to assess institutional policies (e.g., “Does the state encourage or require students to complete their developmental education courses early in their academic careers?”). The toolkit also includes assessments that are important to all four stages of the framework, such as data system capacity and use, student engagement, support services, and financial aid and affordability. The toolkit can be used to assess a full range of policies that comprise a comprehensive student completion agenda, or a narrow subset of policies geared towards implementing structured pathways, which may be most applicable for Career Pathways efforts.