QEP Team Meeting Minutes

QEP Team Meeting Minutes 09/01/2009

Attended (via SPOC): Gail Lancaster, Carol Weideman, Karen Hesting

Topics:

I) Miscellaneous A) Janice will schedule the next set of QEP Team Meetings via SPOC for the first Tuesday of the month at 3:00 p.m. B) QEC Meeting 1) Friday, September 25, 1:00-3:00 p.m. 2) EpiCenter - 2-304 3) Subcommittees will not meet. 4) Agenda (a) Faculty Champions & Academic Roundtables Updates (b) Updates (i) Student Success (ii) Professional Development (iii) Critical Thinking Resources (c) Assessment (d) Fall Critical Thinking Institute (morning munchies sign-up) (e) In general, what kinds of professional development do we need? (f) Also, good books/resources that support critical thinking should be recommended for library purchase. Send Gail the title and author. II) Student Success A) Classroom Activities 1) The first eight Critical Thinking Activity/Reusable Learning Objects (RLOs) are now listed via the Gateway Website: http://www.spcollege.edu/criticalthinking/resources/rlo.htm 2) Janice has not yet heard from Mike Carnahan regarding the status of the Activity/RLO online submission form. According to Karen, the ANGEL upgrade has caused a number of issues with SPOC tools that are keeping Mike busy. Karen will check with Mike about the form. 3) Gail will input the discipline-specific activities she has received from QEC members into the existing form: https://it.spcollege.edu/cfsurveys/survey.cfm?su_id=2727 B) Rubrics 1) Bonnie Jefferis revised the ARC scenario for Communications. C) ePortfolio 1) Janice has appointments scheduled, or is working to schedule with disciplines that use ePortfolios: (a) College of Education – Paul Angerosa: Thursday, September 3, 9:30 a.m., Tarpon Springs - CE 109 (b) Dental Hygiene – Jeanette Siladie: Wednesday, September 2, 3:30 p.m., HEC - HE 103D (c) Paralegal – TBD

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D) Student Activities 1) Janice’s attendance at Tonjua Williams’ student activity coordinators meeting in July was postponed until Wednesday, September 16, 1:00- 3:00 p.m., EpiCenter 2-423. Gail will attend. 2) Focus on the SPC Reads Book “Animal, Vegetable, Miracle.” 3) Janice will remind coordinators about the “Critical Thinking Programs” database. II) Professional Development A) Janice attended the SACS Summer Institute 7/19-22/09. It was very informative, particularly relating to assessing the QEP. Next year’s is in Tampa on July 25-28, 2010. B) Critical Thinking Institutes 1) Fall Critical Thinking Institute @ SP/Gibbs (a) Friday, October 9, 8:30-12:00 (b) Janice is soliciting presenters. Carol will facilitate a CAT panel discussion. Gail will plan a break-out session on critically thinking about critical thinking exercises in text books. Karen will check with the Instructional Technologists to gauge interest. (c) The day will begin with a few breakfast munchies (QEC- donated), followed by a welcome by Karen White, and “institute overview” by Gail Lancaster. (d) Faculty Champions will participate in a 30-minute panel discussion moderated by a student (Janice will contact SP/Gibbs SGA President, Leja Apple, about doing this.) (e) There will be two break-out sessions, 45 minutes each. (f) Lunch will not be coordinated. 2) Spring Critical Thinking Institute (Narrowing the Gulf) (a) March 18-19, 2010 (b) Barry Stein has agreed to give the keynote for $2,750 (including travel). (c) Call for proposals coming by the end of September. C) Faculty Champions 1) 12 Faculty Champions and discipline representative participated in the CAT Scoring Workshop held on 7/10/09. 2) All disciplines represented at the Faculty Champion meeting held on 8/28/09. 3) Mika Nelson has scheduled a meeting with Heather Disler on Wednesday, September 9, 9:00 a.m. at the Downtown Center regarding the ARC Scenario administration in LIS 1002. 4) Faculty Champion Guide (a) The linkage between the Instructional Portfolios group and the Instructions & Deliverables group no longer works in the upgraded version of ANGEL. A message was sent to all Faculty Champions about this on 8/10/09. Janice will clear out the

nonfunctioning links, and continue to work on content for September through December. (b) A video to highlight the College of Education's Student Learning Inquiry Project (SLIP) and how this interfaces with QEP/critical thinking was developed and is now being revised. (c) Carol has Camtasia and will narrate her PowerPoint about the ARC. (d) Gail will collect journal articles that describe an intervention and associated assessment (concrete examples). (e) Janice will follow-up to build modules with Holly Hoopes and Carol. (f) Nancy Watkins videotaped a lesson that incorporated the graphic organizers. Janice will follow-up with her to re-shoot. D) Academic Round Tables 1) 2009 Summer Deliverables: (a) Library complete. (b) Business Technologies, Communications, Nursing, and Paralegal still working. 2) 2009 Fall Deliverables: (a) Instructional Portfolio component (i) Systematic Observation (ii) Observations (iii) Results Analysis (iv) Peer Evaluation (v) Key Issues (vi) Results Synthesis (vii) Context of Knowledge Base (b) Base Drop Boxes & Forms (i) ART Action Items (August, September, October, November, December) (ii) Portfolio Report (iii) Session Description for Spring Critical Thinking Institute (iv) Final Survey 3) 2010 Projected Disciplines: (a) Natural Science (faculty has contacted already) – John Vaughan (b) Dental Hygiene – Katie Woods (c) O&P – Sam Phillips (d) Vet Tech – Richard Flora (e) Emergency Medical Services – Nerina Stepanovsky (f) Funeral Services – Kevin Davis (g) Health Information Management – Martin Smith (h) Hospitality & Tourism Management – Robert Meyer (i) Human Services – Cheryl Kerr (j) Medical Laboratory Technology – Valerie Polansky (k) Parks & Leisure Services – Larry Goldsmith

(l) Physical Therapist Assistant – Rebecca Kramer (m) Radiography – John Fleming (n) Respiratory Care – Steve Mikles (o) Veterinary Technology – Richard Flora 4) Janice met with Jonathan Steele and Mark Hunter on 7/14/09 regarding the possibility of Mark serving as a Faculty Champion for Humanities for 2010. Nothing was decided, however. III) Critical Thinking Resources A) Gateway Website 1) Janice met with Donna Kelly on 7/30/09. Donna is working to consolidate and organize the listing of library resources: books, journal articles, Web sites, ebooks, videos. 2) Links to the WITS-QEC Liaison Weblog via “Ask an Expert.” Karen is posting updates. B) RLO’s 1) The first eight Critical Thinking Activity/Reusable Learning Objects (RLOs) are now listed via the Gateway Website: http://www.spcollege.edu/criticalthinking/resources/rlo.htm 1) Janice has not yet heard from Mike Carnahan regarding the status of the Activity/RLO online submission form. According to Karen, the ANGEL upgrade has caused a number of issues with SPOC tools that are keeping Mike busy. Karen will check with Mike about the form. C) Instructional Portfolios 1) Gail will take a look at her Lily materials for ideas to help develop an evaluation instrument for the Instructional Portfolios. D) Critical Thinking Resource Centers 1) Good books that support critical thinking should be recommended for library purchase. Send Gail the title and author. IV) Assessment A) Direction 1) Janice met with Carol, Jesse Coraggio, and Maggie Tymms on 8/18/09 to clarify QEP assessment, particularly: (a) Process vs. Learning Outcomes (i) While process outcomes are important, the emphasis of assessing the QEP is its impact on student learning outcomes as addressed in our response to the visiting committee report. (b) Assessments (i) IR&E oversees iSkills, MAPP, Alumni, Employer, and the developing Gen Ed. Assessment, and will relay results to the Faculty Champion for Assessment. (ii) There are no plans to administer the CCSSE, but there will be engagement-type items included in the SSI for Spring. (iii) ePortfolio and “SPC Course Journals” are not being implemented at this time.

(iv) ARC will be administered at random to target courses within participating disciplines this fall, and each fall thereafter, in an accumulating fashion as more disciplines are added. Scoring will take place in the fall or spring. (v) CAT will be administered this spring and each spring thereafter to specifically targeted yet-to-be-determined (math?) courses. Scoring will take place in the summer. (c) “College-wide systematic review of educational outcomes” (i) The Critical Thinking Subcommittee will review institutional data in October (date TBD), and identify goals and objectives to improve student learning. This will be reported to the Educational Oversight Committee to incorporate into that process. (d) Roles & Responsibilities (i) The QEP Impact Report will be accomplished as a team effort. (ii) The QEP Director is monitoring the various process indicators. (iii) IR&E oversees various assessments (see above), and already does much of the QEP Assessment Coordinator’s intended responsibilities, and is available as a resource. (iv) The Faculty Champion for Assessment’s deliverables for fall will involve: ARC scoring, QEP Targets, Faculty Champion advisement, meetings, Critical Thinking Institute, and assessment module. 2) Janice met with Anne Cooper on 8/24/09 to review QEP assessment topics listed above. 3) Critical Thinking Subcommittee of the Educational Oversight Group (a) Meeting – Wednesday, October 21, 2:00-4:00 p.m., EpiCenter, 2- 423. (b) Focus – The focus will be on the institutional data, in order to identify goals and objectives to improve student learning that will be reported back to the Educational Oversight Committee to incorporate into that process. (c) Process measures and learning outcomes (ARC Pilot, CAT). Carol will talk to Sharon Griggs to introduce the idea of focusing the CAT administration on specific math courses. B) Assessment Rubric for Critical Thinking (ARC) 1) ARC Scoring Workshop (a) Friday, November 13 (b) 12:00-4:00 p.m. (c) EpiCenter - 1-324 (d) Per Carol’s direction, Faculty Champions have been asked to invite a few of their discipline’s faculty to participate. Approximately 5 scenario responses per hour per person can be

scored, meaning 15 can be scored per person during the 4-hour ARC Scoring Workshop. (e) Carol will follow-up with the Faculty Champions for their guidance on scoring their discipline’s scenario. 2) Fall ARC Administration (a) Janice met with Anne Cooper on 7/9/09 to discuss the random administration of the ARC in the fall, and Anne sent a “heads-up” email to the Deans the same day. (b) Faculty Champions identified which course(s) their ARC scenario was best suited, and Carol selected class sections, at random. (c) Janice followed-up with the Deans via email on 7/16/09, indicating the randomly selected sections for fall. (d) Janice provided detailed instructions and guidelines for the Deans on 8/25/09 to forward to participating faculty: (i) Thank you for administering the ARC to your class this fall. Your participation will help SPC assess the critical thinking learning outcomes. Below are some general instructions and guidelines. Feel free to get in touch if you have any questions or concerns:  The ARC scenario assignment (attached) was developed by your Academic Roundtable for Business Technologies for the course(s): CTS 1334.  Your course was selected at random from all fall sections of CTS 1334.  Provide each student a copy of the attached file which includes the scenario and the scoring rubric. You may make photocopies, or display it via overhead projection in the classroom, or create an *electronic Drop Box assignment with it in your ANGEL course.  Students respond essay-style, and may either hand write (legibly) on paper or type an *electronic word processing file, whichever you prefer.  Students must read the scenario and respond independently. They may not work in groups or partners.  Students should review the scoring rubric and consider this as they craft their response to the scenario. Please explain this to your students, and encourage them to do their very best.  It should take approximately one hour for a student to complete the assignment. You may allow more time, if you like.

 Students may complete this assignment in-class, as homework handed in later, or *via online submission in ANGEL. This is up to you.  Collect the students' completed papers. Make copies for yourself to keep, if you like. Then, interoffice the originals to Janice Thiel. Be sure to indicate your course section number with these papers. If using an *electronic Drop Box in ANGEL, make Janice an editor of that course, and email her the course section and location within the Lessons content where the Drop Box exists. If using ANGEL, there is no need for you to make photocopies to interoffice to Janice.  If you kept photocopies of your students' papers, or if you used an *ANGEL Drop Box, you may use the rubric to score your students yourself. Incorporating this score into your course's grading scheme will help motivate your students to do their best. You may also consider offering extra credit for completing this assignment.  Please have this completed by October 23.  A random selection of all submitted assignments will be assessed during an upcoming ARC Scoring Workshop.  *Electronic submission via ANGEL is preferred and highly encouraged. Please contact your Campus Instructional Technologist if you need assistance: http://it.spcollege.edu/edtech/contactInfo/index.cfm? itonly=true (e) Janice and Bonnie Jefferis presented the ARC pilot to Communications faculty on 8/20/09. C) Critical Thinking Assessment Test (CAT) 1) The CAT Scoring workshop was held on 7/10/09, and was attended by 12 Faculty Champions and other discipline representatives. 2) Grant money was used to purchase refreshments. 3) Maggie Tymms completed the 2009 CAT Scoring Session report on 7/30/09. 4) Carol will talk to Sharon Griggs to introduce the idea of focusing the CAT administration on specific math courses.

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