Instructional Planning 2013 Yearly Update REVISED
Date
May 14, 2014
Division
HAWK
12/4/13
Department
Dental Hygiene
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
Comments
(identify source
of funding)
1.
Host Western Regional Examination Board
(WREB) DH practical exam at Cabrillo starting in
June 2013.
Completed &
ongoing
2.
Investigate hosting Central Regional Dental
Testing (CRDTS) DH practical exam
Yes
3.
Investigate hosting CA State Board examinees
that need remediation
No
4.
Host Continuing Education Courses
Completed &
ongoing
5.
Working with ROP to Host Registered Dental
Assistant Written Certification Course(s)
Yes
6.
FT faculty transfer to another program in Fall 13
Completed
7.
Investigate reorganizing the DH staff to help with
efficiency, to comply with CODA requirements,
and to identify potential
Investigate and develop a ACE Foundation
Course for incoming and repeating DH students
Completed
Yes
In process
Develop new dental technology course to meet
the Electronic Health Records mandate. The
course would cover digital and panoramic
radiology, digital and intra-oral photography,
dental office management software
No
No
8.
9.
Yes- outside
college
funding
WREB
Yes- outside
college
funding
CRDTS
Yes- outside
college,
private
Yes- outside
college,
private
No
Two WREBs have been scheduled for summer 2104
Sent application 5/20/14, waiting for response from CRDTS.
The Dental Hygiene Committee of California (regulatory body of dental
hygiene licensees) requesting schools to offer a remediation course for
State Board examinee failures.
Offering another CE course to the dental community fall 2014. Offered one
course fall 2013 and spring 2014.
Working with the ROP DA Director, Debbie Reynon and Kris Dowling.
Due to the college’s budget the FT position has not been replaced. It is
anticipated that this position will be funded by the college when the budget
improves. Benefiting the program budget $40,000
After a program need’s assessment the results showed to combine two 50%
staff positions into one 100% program coordinator.
The DH piloted foundation course occurred fall 2103. Program would like
to make the foundation course part of the DH core courses. The program is
investigating into how to make the course sustainable as part of the student
success initiative and to increase DH FTES.
Electronic Health Records (EHR) is a federal mandate. Currently the
electronic records content is fragmented among numerous courses. It is
anticipated that this course will be funded by the college when the budget
improves. Need to purchase equipment, i.e., digital sensors, scanner,
printer, and laptop computer for student skills demonstrations, evaluation,
grading, and tracking both didactically and clinically.
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Goals / Recommendations from six-year plan
In progress
10. Increase the dental hygiene Instructional
Assistant from 50% to 100%
No
Goal Met
(identify
source of
funding)
No
11. Academic Specialist
No
No
Comments
Due to the number of lab and clinic hours each semester (41 hours in fall
and 32 hours in spring), there is a need for a full time IA. Without a full
time IA faculty members are working out of class in addition to their
certificated teaching contract. When the college budget improves the
department will request this position to be funded 100% by the college
This position would be used to track clinical data, to perform
demonstrations, and provide clinical and didactic tutoring.
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.
Since the DH department hosted the Commission on Dental Accreditation (CODA) site visit in fall 2012, the department began the SLO cycle
again with summer 2013.
Courses assessed were Summer 2013 DH7 and DH184A, Fall 2013 DH170. These instructor assessments will be discussed at the end of fall
semester meeting on December 11, 2013.
During the semester there was informal discussionS between instructors of DH171 and DH 160, DH171 and DH 162A, DH171 and DH181 as
well as DH171, 162A, DH 162B and DH 181. The result was strengthening the content and the sequence of content among the fall courses, the
sequence of the 162A & B sequence, and consistency in criteria and processes with the 4 clinical courses.
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
Date of meeting where
SLO, or CTE Program SLO analysis / dialogue took
Assessed. Example: all course place. Example: Department
SLOs for English 1A, 1B and 2 Meeting 8/27/10
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.
DH184A
Implementation of TalEval grading in DH184A was beneficial in providing
objective evaluation of students in this course.
12/10/13
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