Instructional Planning Yearly Update
Department _____MESA____________________
Date ___December 5, 2012______________________
Division ___NAS______________________
Goals and Recommendations from Program Plan
List the top five Goals and Recommendations from the last Program Plan and indicate whether they have been met?
Goals / Recommendations from sixIn progress Goal Met (identify
Comments
source of funding)
year plan
Increase physical capacity of MESA
X STEM Title III
We expect to move into the new space as early as Fall 2013
Center
Establishing a shared space with other
X STEM Title III
The MESA Study Center will be together with the PLC and
departments in the new MESA Center
the networking lab in the new STEM Center
X
The STEM grant has brought on somebody who can assist
Increase MESA Counselor to 50%
with some of the functions carried out by the MESA Counselor
Increased outreach efforts to strengthen
X NSF STEP grant, MESA membership is at an all-time high—currently 175
MESA membership
California Connects students. The Summer Energy Academy, PREP and the
grant
California Connects laptop program have been effective
recruiting vehicles for increasing MESA members.
Increasing drop-in tutoring and
X Foundation,
Each semester we have used different sources to augment our
workshop availability
Student Senate,
extremely limited student tutor/workshop leader budget:
UCSC Workstudy, Awards from the Foundation, Student Senate have been
Math 158T
invaluable. Workstudy partnership with UCSC was
students, volunteers established this semester. Volunteers continue to assist.
New Goals and Recommendations
List any new goals and recommendations identified by the department
Goal/Recommendation
Cost
Explanation/Evidence of Need
Find a way to institutionalize the successful
$12,475/semester
Success rate in precalculus before PREP was 49% over a 9 year
precalculus intervention, PREP, to increase
period. Since PREP has been offered, the overall success rate for
success of STEM majors through their math
Math 4 has increased to 61%. For the PREP students themselves, the
coursework
success rate is 65%.
SLO Assessment Progress: In a sentence or two, describe where your department should be on the Revolving Wheel of Assessment (what
assessment you should have done in the last year) and what was actually done. If not every thing was completed, explain why.
In the past year, the SLO we have assessed is the Educational Plan that outlines the requirements needed for transfer to a four-year institution.
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We have completed this assessment. See attached materials.
Fill out the Assessment Results section below.
SLO Assessment Results: List SLO assessments, dialogues, and priorities identified as a result of your assessment below. Attach
Departmental Assessment Analysis Forms completed in the last two semesters.
Core Competency, Course
SLO, or CTE Program SLO
Assessed. Example: all course
SLOs for English 1A, 1B and 2
Educational plan for each
MESA student
Date of meeting where
analysis / dialogue took
place. Example: Department
Meeting 8/27/10
August 23rd, 2012
Priorities identified for program as a result of assessment. Example:
Develop strategies for teaching research and documentation skills; share
rubrics for research papers; provide more instructional support outside of
class.
Students all have educational plans, but they do not update them often
enough. Provide reminders at key points in the school year to get more
students to revisit the MESA Counselor for this purpose.
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