Instructional Planning Yearly Update
Date: December 11, 2012
Division: BELA
Department: Computer Applications/Business Technology
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 six-year
plan
In progress
Goal Met
Goal 1: Maintain faculty and instructional
currency with technology, including software,
hardware, and changes in business technology
practices.
Recommendation: Regularly identify technology
curriculum changes, plan for their adoption, and
complete technology training and curriculum
changes as appropriate.
yes
no
Goal 2: Increase success in open-entry courses.
Recommendations: a. Analyze causes of low
success rates in open entry classes and propose
potential solutions, conferring with affected
departments and college administration. b. Apply
solutions and monitor the results. c. Modify plan
as necessary to find an effective, workable
method to increase student success in openentry CABT courses.
Goal 3: Maintain current software and hardware
technology in computer classrooms and the CTCs.
Recommendation: Regularly identify technology
changes and upgrades, plan for their adoption,
and complete technology upgrades as necessary
and appropriate.
Goal 4: Maintain sufficient contract faculty for
program needs.
Recommendation: Recruit and hire a highlyqualified contract faculty member to teach in the
CABT program and support the department’s
goals and SLOs.
yes
no
yes
no
yes
no
Revised September 28, 2012
Comments
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This goal is ongoing. Currently, the department is deciding when to
upgrade to Office 2013, and if/when to ask for Windows 8 in
classrooms. Other issues include: how to include Microsoft Outlook
in the curriculum, tablet applications for productivity, and other
mobile-to-desktop applications. The prevalence of cloud storage,
and its adoption by business, is a current topic as well. Finally, in
the two business/office writing courses, more use of computer
technology will be introduced, as most office writing composition
occurs on a computer.
Success rates in open-entry classes are quite low (less than 40%).
After conferring with Medical Assisting, some remedies are being
tried for MA students, including increased tracking and check-ins
with students. For all other open-entry students, students receive
more email reminders, as well as offers of support than occurred
previously. More textbooks are available for checkout to students—
although several more would be helpful. Finally, non-performing
students are dropped before they can fail the course. These steps
will be evaluated and then modified as appropriate.
The department have identified the need for a new projector for
Room 507, and some basic office equipment (staplers, hole punch)
and computer hardware (replacement keyboards, trackballs, wrist
rests, etc.). These items have been requested. The smaller items
have been purchased, but the projector is still in process.
CABT will hold a recruitment for a contract faculty member in
Spring 2013, pending Board approval. This is essential to the
ongoing success of CABT students, and in order to support the
program.
Goal 5: Cultivate student identification with the
department.
Recommendations: Develop printed materials, hold
in-person meetings, and enhance CABT website to
share information with students.
no
no
No progress has been made on this goal since it was set in April of
this year. Unfortunately, a lack of contract faculty to work on the
project has put it on the back burner for now; however, with a new
contract faculty hire, it is hoped that this goal will begin to be
addressed.
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 you’re not sure where you should be on the Revolving Wheel
contact the SLO Coordinator (x6366). If any task was not completed, explain why.
We have assessed all of our course, certificate, and degree SLOs as part of the instructional planning process, completed in April of this year. All of our
courses have SLOs. Therefore, we are current. At our departmental Fall flex meeting, the faculty decided which courses to choose for embedded
assessment, as we are now beginning the wheel again. We will meet at our departmental Spring flex meeting and discuss our embedded assessments,
and choose new courses to assess. This will generate a Departmental Assessment Analysis Form, which can be attached to next year’s Instructional
Planning Yearly Update.
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.
Please Note: The Assessments Results section was not filled out, as extensive material was completed and turned in to the Office of Instruction in April 2012 at the
end of the Instructional Planning process. We will have new assessment results to report again beginning next semester.
Completed and submitted by: Calais Ingel, Program Chair, CABT
(Please pardon the liberties I took with the table grid above. I hope it will be acceptable in a different style. Also, my additions are Calibri, 11, to distinguish
additions from original text which is Times New Roman, size 12.)
Revised September 28, 2012