BASIC SKILL INITIATIVE REQUEST FOR FUNDS
BSC Mission Statement
Our mission is to improve the retention, persistence, and success of basic skills
students.
Funds used from the Basic Skills Initiative should include one or more of the following:
1. Promote the use of effective practices in developmental education for
administrative, student services, and instructional programs.
2. Provide professional development regarding effective practices in developmental
education.
3. Work with Institutional Research in tracking basic skills students from entry to
completion.
4. Assess and evaluate the programs designed to improve student success.
Complete the form on the page below and email the form as an attachment to
bsc@redwoods.edu.
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BASIC SKILL INITIATIVE REQUEST FOR FUNDS
1. Describe clearly and in detail fund request.
Purchase copies of critical thinking and inquiry books and posters for the Library and
the Writing Center from criticalthinking.org
2. Describe how your proposal supports that Basic Skills Mission Statement.
Access to these materials will support student success; promote effective practices in
developmental education in student services and instructional programs
3. Describe anticipated expenses (attach another page if necessary).
Items:
2 sets of 35+ Books and booklets
2 sets posters and poster frames
Cost:
see attached spreadsheet
cost is an estimate
Total 1334
4. List faculty and staff involved and/or responsible for the project.
Ruth Moon, Faculty Librarian, and Leslie Leach, Writing Center Director
5. Intended Outcomes (include specific, measurable targets):
Faculty will make use of books and posters; students will report improved understanding
of critical thinking concepts and skills
6. Assessment Schedule (specify exactly what you will measure and how you will measure it):
Books checkout rate; number of faculty putting books on reserve; question to be added
to student survey of library satisfaction
7. Proposed Timeline (provide timeline details for activities):
Book and reserve rate checked annually; student survey Spring 2015
8. I understand that if granted, Basic Skill funds can only be used for Basic Skill
Students. By Accepting funding for this project, I agree to provide a written and oral
report describing how well intended outcomes were met, the results of the assessment,
and how this information can be used in the future. Projects funded for two semesters
will require a mid-year update as well as a report upon completion. Please note: This is
a one-time allotment of funds. Any future funding is contingent upon the submissions
and granting of a new request and availability of funding.
6. Contact Person: Ruth Moon
7. Date Submitted:
04/09/2014
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Library & Writing Center Proposal for Basic skills funds to purchase critical thinking books and posters
Critical Thinking titles from www.criticalthinking.org
Critical Thinking: Tools for taking charge of your professional and personal
$36.95 life-Guides
2nd edContained in Set:
30 Days to better thinking and better living
$19.99
1. Active and Cooperative Learning
Critical Thinking: Tools for taking charge of your learning and your life
$79.99
-3rd ed.2. Analytic Thinking
Learn the Tools the best thinkers use- concise ed.
$49.99
3. Art of Socratic Questioning
Critical Thinking: what every person needs to survive in a rapidly changing
$29.95 world
4. Aspiring Thinker's Guide
Learning to think things through: a guide to critical thinking across the
$45.99
curriculum
5. Critical & Creative Thinking
Critical thinking handbook: K-3rd grades
$19.95
6. Critical Thinking Competency Standards
Critical thinking handbook: 4th - 6th grades
$19.95
7. Critical Thinking Reading & Writing Test
Critical thinking handbook: 6 - 9th grades
$19.95
8. Critical Thinking, Concepts & Tools
Critical thinking handbook: High School
$19.95
9. Engineering Reasoning
Think about Fran and Sam
$5.00
10. Ethical Reasoning
Critical thinking: basic theory and instructional structures handbook$19.95
11. Fallacies: The Art of Mental Trickery
Fairminded Fran and the three small black community cats
$12.95
12. How to Detect Media Bias & Propaganda
Set: 22 Thinker's guides (see list at right)
$69.50
13. How to Improve Student Learning
Student Guide to Historical Thinking
$6.00
14. How to Read a Paragraph
Instructor's guide to historical thinking
$6.00
15. How to Study & Learn
Human mind
$5.00
16. How to Write a Paragraph
Intellectual standards
$6.00
17. Scientific Thinking
Educational fads
$6.00
18. Taking Charge of the Human Mind
Set: five posters
$18.00
19. The Art of Asking Essential Questions
Five poster frames (estimated $25 each, purchased separately $125.00
20. A Critical Thinker's Guide to Educational Fads
Subtotal $622.06
21. Thinker's Guide to Intellectual Standards
Subtotal x 2 (one of each item for Library and Writing Center) $1,244.12
22. Glossary of Critical Thinking Terms and Concept
Estimated tax, S&H (7.25%)
$1,334.31
Examples of posters: