ACADEMIC NEED
Maria Campuzano,Santos Morales
Jesus Gonzales, Maricela Zavala
Israel Frutos, Maria Castillo
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EXECUTIVE
SUMMARY
Maria Campuzano
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ACADEMIC NEED
• LEADER: Maria Campuzano
– Executive Summary
• GROUP MEMBERS:
– Santos Morales
• Need Statement
– Jesus Gonzales
• Solution Statement
– Maricela Zavala
• Work Plan
– Israel Frutos
• Team Process Improvement
– Maria Castillo
• Proposal Evaluation Analysis
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GOAL
To produce a proposal defining support
services for Academy students focusing in
their academic needs
TEAM WORK PLAN
• To get organized
• Checkpoints
• Milestones
• All activities that have to be accomplished
• Who is responsible for each activity
• Flow Chart
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DEVELOP INTERVIEW
QUESTIONS
INDIVIDUAL
• Questions to be answered in the proposal
• Questions for interviews
• Survey questions for students (20)
– Draft by: November 6, 2003
TEAM
• Combine our questions together
– By: November 11, 2003
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INTERVIEWS
TO:
• Diego Navarro
• Marcy Alancraig
• Susan Nerton
• All group on November 11, 2003
STUDENT SURVEYS
• Gave surveys to 20 students in the
Academy
• Gathered results
• Found out needs
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NEED AND
SOLUTION
• Every person did
NEED
• Power point slide sets
• Draft- November 18, 2003
• Final- November 20, 2003
SOLUTION
• Power point slide sets
• Draft- November 20, 2003
• Final-November 25, 2003
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TEAM SURVEYS
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Team Process Improvement
Proposal Evaluation Analysis
Gathered results
Power point slide sets
• Draft- November 25, 2003
• Final –December 2, 2003
WORK PLAN
By: December 2, 2003
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FINAL
• Gave slide sets to person in charge
– December 2, 2003
• Draft of slide sets- December 4, 2003
• Final of slide sets- December 9, 2003
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Academic Needs
By: Santos Morales
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Who is in Need?
• Students of the WDBA
• Underprivileged students.
• Students at risk.
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The Needs ?
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Tutoring in Math, Writing, and Reading.
Study Groups
Organization Skills.
Editing their papers.
Help from teachers.
Having to work less.
Focusing
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When are the Needs
evident?
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When they don’t progress.
Poor basic skills scores.
Drop out rates.
When assignments are not completed
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Why do these needs
occur?
• They don’t get a good education in High
School.
• English is their second language.
• They are lazy.
• T.V.
• Play sports.
• Work outs
• Don’t have family support.
• They have to Work.
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Evidence to Support the Claim?
• Survey done to Student of the WDBA
100% Basic
skills
Tutoring
95%
90%
80%
70%
60%
50%
40%
Organization
skills, 65%
30%
Study Groups,
75%
Editing Papers,
90%
20%
10%
0%
Basic skills Tutoring
Organization skills
Study Groups
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WDBA Experts
• “ Study groups should be a
requirements” (Diego, WDBA founder)
• “Organization Skills are very
important for high wage jobs” (Diego)
• Toast Masters to help students in
public speaking.
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Consequences
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Drop out Rates will increase
Students will be disorganized.
Less Students Graduating
Student will not be prepared for high
wage jobs.
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Need linked to Student’s
Success?
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Place higher on basic skills tests
Less drop outs
Graduating from college
Receiving a degree.
Getting a better job.
Having a better way of living
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Possible Solutions
Long Term Academic Support
By: Jesus Gonzales
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Possible Solutions
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Tutoring in Basic Skills
Open a Study Hall
Peer support
Extend Integrated Learning Center
hours
• Organization classes
• Make study groups for Academy
students
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Tutoring
• Students get help
w/ basic skills
• Can ask questions
when needed
• Improved grades
• Better
Understanding
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Open Study Hall
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Place to meet with their study groups
Just need a place to study
Higher scores on basic skill test
Labs for students
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Math
Reading
Writing
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Peer Support
• Academy Students
– Training class
– Working in small
groups
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Extend Integrated Learning
Center Hours
• More time to do
work
• Can get help
• Some student’s
don’t have
computers at home
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Organization Classes
• Class to be
available on:
– Time Management
– How to get
organized
– Being Prepared
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Creation of Study Groups
• Support and help
from fellow
classmates
• Learn communication
skills
• Learning from each
other
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Criteria List
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Can it be done in one semester?
Do we have the financial resources?
Do we have the staff?
Is there a location for the solution?
Is training needed to support the
program?
• Is it sustainable?
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Criteria Table
Criteria
Tutors
ILC Study Study Organization Peer
hours Hall groups Classes
Support
Time: 1
Semester
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
No
No
Financial
Resources?
No
No
No
Yes
No
Yes
Staff?
No
Yes
No
Yes
No
Yes
Place?
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
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Criteria Table (cont)
Criteria
(Cont.)
Tutors ILC
Study Study
Organization
Hours Hall Groups classes
Peer
Support
Training?
No
No
No
No
Yes
Yes
Partners to No
collaborate?
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Sustainable? Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
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Should study groups be a
requirement?
25%
Survey
Results
from
students
Yes
No
75%
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Key Solution
• Long Term
Academic Support
– Tutoring
– Study groups
– Organization class
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Objectives
• Asses each student’s academic needs
• Create study groups
• Organization skills
class
• Tutoring
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Goals
• Prepared for
higher education
• Less drop outs
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Outcomes
• Ask questions if they don’t
understand the assignment (better
prepared for test)
• Have someone to talk to
• Support from team members
• Homework done on time
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Action Plan
Solution
By: Maricela Zavala
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Solution
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A long term academic support
based on assess student needs.
Assess student needs.
Make study groups mandatory.
More tutors.
Improve organizational skills in
Learning to Learn class.
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Objective: 1 Assess student
needs
Solution: Long term academic support based on assess student needs
Objective:1
Assess student needs
Activities
Deliverables
Completion Date
Person (s) Responsible
Give out
surveys to
students to
know their
needs
Knowing students struggles to
be able to help them
During the foundation course
Previous students from
the Academy
Give students
tests of basic
skills
Information about the need
of each student
During the foundation course
Faculty members of the
WDBA
Design or assign
a class or class
time for
students to ask
questions or to
work with a
tutor in one to
one
Motivation of students to
work to improve their needs
During the foundation course
Faculty members of the
WDBA
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Objective: 2 Make study groups
mandatory
Activities
Deliverables
Completion Date
Person (s)
Responsible
Make study
groups
mandatory
Having better
learning
environment
among
students
At the beginning
of the
semester
Faculty and
students of
the WDBA
Combine
different
learning
styles in
study groups
Better
interaction
among
students
At the beginning
of the
semester
Previous students
from the
academy
Timing: Check if
all the
students have
the time
required for
study groups
Schedule the
hours of the
meetings of
study groups
At the beginning
of the
semester
Faculty and
students of
the WDBA
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Objective:3More tutors
available
Activities
Deliverable
s
Completion
Date
During the
Finding out
Survey
semester
why
students to
students
identify
have
their
problems
problems
for with
with
homework
homework
Arrange time
for tutors
100% of
effective
tutors to
meet
students
needs
During the
beginning
of the
semester
and
outgoing
Person (s)
Responsible
Previous students of
the WDBA
Faculty members
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Objective:4 Improve
organizational skills in
learning to learn class
Activities
Deliverables
Completion
Date
Person (s)
Responsible
Create a survey
to find out
about how
many students
need
organizational
skill classes
First weeks of
the beginning
of the
Information about
semester
how many
students need
organization
skill classes
Previous students of
the Academy
Improve
organizational
skills in
Learning To
Learn class
Seeing 75% of
students
improvements
in being
organized
Middle of the
first month of
the semester
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Team Process Analysis
By: Israel Frutos
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Challenges
• Being organized
• Being on time
• Accomplishing all the
slides sets
• Staying focused
• Bored sometimes
• Disagreements
• Students talking
• More time
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Team Members
Maria Campuzano:
Executive Summary
Santos Morales:
Need Statement
Maricela Zavala:
Work Plan
Jesus Gonzales:
Solution Statement
Maria Castillo:
Evaluation
Statement
By: Israel
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Process
• Distribute tasks to
each member in the
group
• Describe each
assignment with
everyone
• Met twice outside of
class during the
whole project
• Develop interview
questions
• Develop survey
question
• Interviewed three
staff members
• Gave a survey to
twenty students
• Everyone asked
questions during
interview
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Group Interactions
• It seemed like
everyone had fun
participating
• Everybody gave
opinions out loud
• We were all confident
• We all agree with each
other
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How much did you
participate?
4
3.5
3
2.5
2
Participation
1.5
1
0.5
0
A Lot
Somewhat
Not Much
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Members Showing Up For
The Team
• We all gave our
different points
of view
• We all
participated
evenly
• Nobody stayed
quiet
• Giving more ideas
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Helping Each Other
• When somebody
would have a problem
we would try to help
the student to
understand
• Explain as clearly as
we could
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Facilitation
• Respecting others
opinions
• We had to think smart
and fast
• Participation everyone
• No needs for
improvements
• Great teammates
• Good communications
• Organization
• Motivation
• We didn’t waste time
when we had to work
• Good team
• Our leader was strict
and had good strategy
to keep us focus
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Behaviors
Behavior that held
us back:
• We would distract
other groups
• Playful
• Moody
• Angry
• Frustrating
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Behaviors that
helped us:
By staying focused
Support
Participating fully
Communicating out
loud
• Energetic
• Complete tasks on
time
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Improvements For Next
Time
• Having more
meetings
together
• Focusing
• Follow the
progress
• More
participation
• More motivation
• Taking turns to
talk
• Making sure
everyone knows
what they are
doing
• Asking more
questions
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Proposal Evaluation
Analysis
By: Maria Castillo
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Activities Done as a
Group
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Work Plan
Flow Chart
Team Roles
Questions Interviews
Interviews
Survey for Questions
Putting Results
Came out with need
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Need Slides
Possible Solution
Criteria
Select Solution
Solution Slides
Team/Evaluation
Survey
• Slide sets
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How was the participation
in your team?
0%
Yes
No
100%
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Activities
ADDED
DROP
• More time
• Less slide sets
• H.W not due on the • Asking more follow
up questions in
same day of other
interviews
H.W
• Discussion
• Less individual
work
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Student/ Team
Improvements
• Paying attention
• Asking questions
• Keeping
agreements
• Follow rules
• Be on time
• More motivation
• Follow leader
directions
• Participation by
everyone
• Meeting since the
beginning
• Causing less
distractions
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Faculty Improvements
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More individual help
More time
Less homework from other classes
Lab Instructor knowing more about
Proposal
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Improvements For Next
Time
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More prepared
More focused
Being more involved in helping others
Work to be turned in on time
Spend more time together
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