Dean of Academic Service — Business, Health, Athletics & Work Experience at Las Positas College
About
Dr. Law’s research focuses on the relationships between noncognitive characteristics, student engagement, and college and career readiness. Presently, he's developing a grounded theory on the relationships between students' noncognitive characteristics and their expected engagement. Dr. Law utilized noncognitive characteristic to develop: (a) early-alert systems for socially and academically at-risk students, (b) first-year living-learning communities, (c) Second, Junior, and Senior-Year Experience Programs.
Dr. Law has had the opportunity to present his research and student success programs at state, regional, national, and international conferences. He is currently the president at the Student Success Institute where his team works with K-12 schools, colleges, and universities to develop students’ noncognitive characteristics. He is also developing a network of charter schools that will integrate noncognitive characteristic development into the curriculum. Dr. Law strives to help students become the best version of themselves by understanding the unique mix of noncognitive characteristics that lead to their success.
Current Work:
1. Developing a grounded theory on the relationships between noncognitive characteristics and expected first semester engagement.
2. Determining the relationships between noncognitive characteristics and first year college students' high school GPA, test scores, number of units taken in college, persistence to second semester and retention to second year fall
3. Determining the effectiveness and the usefulness of noncognitive characteristics as a component of the Multiple Measure Assessment for California Community Colleges
4. Qualitative study on the role noncognitive characteristics have on middle school experiences
Research Area(s):
- Higher Education
- Community Colleges
- Leadership
