Peralta Online Equity Rubric
Of all courses offered at 114 community colleges, 12.3 percent are offered through distance education and nearly half of all courses have some online component. With more than 2.1 million students on 114 campuses, over 67 percent of California community college students are people of diverse ethnic backgrounds and roughly 53 percent are female. It is essential that all instructors, including those teaching in the online and hybrid modality, engage in ongoing efforts to reduce challenges, eliminate barriers, and close the online equity gap among our diverse student population, by:
- examining the institutional, systemic and learning barriers that result in inequitable outcomes and disparate impact in course and degree completion rates in online education.
- identifying disparities and challenges associated with online student equity, and
identifying success strategies to address these inequities as it relates to course and degree completion.
In our efforts to better support student success, we have adopted Peralta's Online Equity Rubric Links to an external site.. The Peralta Equity Rubric is a research-based course (re)design evaluation instrument designed to help online teachers make the online course experience more equitable for all students. The rubric’s criteria include: addressing students’ access to technology and different types of support (both academic and non-academic); increasing the visibility of the instructor’s commitment to inclusion; addressing common forms of bias (e.g., image and representation bias, interaction bias); helping students make connections (e.g., between course topics and their lives; with the other students); and following universal design for learning principles.
Adapted from the CVC Online Student Equity page Links to an external site..