QEP Team Meeting
Minutes
2/1/2012
Attended (via SPOC): David Monroe, Matthew Bodie, Ashley Hendrickson, Tim
Godcharles, Janice Thiel
Next meetings: March 14, and April 4
Topics:
I)
Assessment
A) QEP Impact Report
1) Final draft to be completed before QEC Meeting August 31.
2) Janice will draft outline the week of February 27.
3) Ashley and Janice will schedule work sessions to work on report the week
of March 12.
4) Janice will ask Gail Lancaster to review and edit draft.
B) Critical Thinking Assessment Test (CAT)
1) Vet Tech A.S. administered the CAT in January. They returned 44
completed CATs.
2) Janice has met with the faculty to deliver CATs and discuss
administration:
Campus
CL
SPG
Instructor
867 Williams, Latrica
1060 Kennedy, Daiva
Course
Description
STA2023
Elementary Statistics
STA2023
Elementary Statistics
STA2023
Elementary Statistics
TS
874 Weaver, Suzann M
CL
493 Michaelides, George MAC1105
C
College Algebra
SE
1961 Michaelides, George MAC1105
C
4577 Kennedy, Daiva
MAC1105
College Algebra
SPG
C)
Section
College Algebra
3) CAT Scoring Workshop is scheduled:
(a) Friday, April 20, 8:30 a.m.-4:00 p.m.
(b) DO-102 - Consular Conference Room
4) Ashley will follow-up with Tennessee Tech to request updated training
module.
5) Janice will explore providing a stipend for faculty to participate, perhaps
submitting a critical thinking grant to fund.
Assessment Rubric for Critical Thinking (ARC)
1) Randomly-selected faculty have been notified of the need to submit their
students’ Ethics CTAPs:
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Class
Number
918
926
1121
2171
2415
2465
II)
Subject Catalog Description
Studies in Applied
PHI
1600
Ethics
Studies in Applied
PHI
1600
Ethics
Studies in Applied
PHI
1600
Ethics
Studies in Applied
PHI
1600
Ethics
Studies in Applied
PHI
1600
Ethics
Studies in Applied
PHI
1600
Ethics
Instructor
John Venturella
Eric Tucker
Lee Miller
Fred Bennett
Nick Manias
Laurie King
2) ARC Scoring Workshop is scheduled:
(a) Friday, May 18, 8:30 a.m.-4:00 p.m.
(b) DO-102 - Consular Conference Room
3) Janice will explore providing a stipend for faculty to participate, perhaps
submitting a critical thinking grant to fund.
D) SACS Working Group
1) Next meetings are scheduled for:
(a) Wednesday, February 15, 2:00-3:00 p.m.
(b) Thursday, March 22, 2:00-3:00 p.m.
2) Recommendations
(a) Establish methods for maintaining lists of those assigned primary
responsibilities (e.g., curriculum developers)
(b) Revisit college goals (consider workforce)
(c) Improve efficiencies of maintaining faculty lists and documenting
qualifications/credentials
(d) Review non-academic areas of the college (facilities, etc.) for how
the achievement of goals is monitored.
Student Success
A) Classroom Activities
B) Rubrics
C) ePortfolio
D) Student Activities
1) Great Debate 2012
(a) Dates and topics for campuses have been determined: Clearwater,
Downtown, Midtown, Seminole, SP/Gibbs, and Tarpon
(b) Final Debate - March 30, 2012, 10:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. at
Seminole Campus Digitorium. Ashley and Dave will work on an
audience assessment.
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(c) Pre- and post- assessment instruments for participants are being
finalized. Pre- will be online; post- will use scannable paper
form.
2) Free Thinker’s Club at the Tarpon Springs Campus is interested in having
Greg Graffin speak to students about critical thinking, perhaps
partnering with MIRA and student activities. Partial funding can come
from QEP.
3) Ashley will follow-up with Student Life and Leadership for opportunities
to assess future events.
Professional Development
A) Quality Enhancement Committee (QEC)
1) Membership has narrowed and is representative of faculty, staff, and
campuses.
2) Meetings:
(a) 1/20/2012 – Recommendations from All College Day held on
10/25/2011 were reviewed, particularly ways to promote
reflection, also, student activities and CETL Critical Thinking
Grants were outlined.
(b) Friday, August 31, 9:00-11:00, room TBD
(i) Review of the QEP Impact Report draft
B) Critical Thinking Institutes
1) Critical Thinking Retreat
(a) Friday, February 17, 9:00-2:00 noon
(b) Natural Habitat Park & Environmental Center, Seminole Campus –
UP 303/319
(c) Pot Luck Luncheon 12:00-1:00
(d) Topics:
(i) Critical Thinking Assessment
(ii) Action Research & Authentic Assessment
(iii) Interdisciplinary Teaching
(iv) Instructional Technology
(v) SPC Research Committee
(vi) CETL Critical Thinking Grant
2) Narrowing the Gulf – March 29-30, 2012.
(a) Edna Ross of Louisville University will present the key note and
conduct an additional break-out session. She has submitted her
session descriptions and $3,000 fee which includes travel.
(b) Mandy Gunnell from <i>Clickers is arranging to send 250 loaner
student response devices, and she will be on-hand for Dr. Ross’s
break-out session.
(c) Dr. Ross will meet with the Faculty Champions by special
invitation: Thursday, March 29, 11:00-12:00, EpiCenter, 2-423
3) 2012 Fall Critical Thinking Institute
(a) Friday, September 21, 2012
(b) Seminole Campus – Digitorium
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IV)
(c) Time TBD
(d) Janice will contact Anamarie Root of Staff & Professional
Development about partnering, calling for proposals earlier and
adopting the “Interdisciplinary” theme
B) Faculty Champions
1) 2011 Faculty Champions
(a) College of Business and Engineering Technology are not yet
complete with Spring 2011 deliverables. Janice has followed-up
with them.
(b) Summer deliverables are complete for: Humanities, Public Safety,
and Computer & Information Technology.
2) 2010 Faculty Champions
(a) Medical Lab Technology and Natural Science are not yet complete
with Fall 2010 deliverables. Janice has followed-up with them.
3) Final Survey for Faculty Champions – Janice will work with Ashley to
develop this.
4) CETL-CT Bridge Team
(a) Cher Gauweiler is presenting Action Research & Authentic
Assessment at the Critical Thinking Retreat
C) Academic Roundtables
1) Sue Blanchard will lead two book study groups at Tarpon and Clearwater
for the book “Making Thinking Visible.” Two initial face-to-face
meetings, followed up with virtual meetings, ending with final face-toface meeting(s) to share experiences: Tarpon 3/19 and 3/26; Clearwater
4/2 and 4/9.
2) Janice and Li-Lee Tunceren met with Public Safety faculty and staff on
1/31/12 about various professional development needs, including the
interest in forming a learning community and submitting a critical
thinking grant application.
Critical Thinking Resources
A) Gateway Website
B) RLO’s
1) Offering grants for developing RLO’s that teach for critical thinking.
2) Criteria includes:
(a) Teach for critical thinking
(b) Be digital, preferably web-base, and interactive
(c) Be easy, or somewhat easy, to share with another faculty member,
easily transferable/reusable
(d) Be generalized enough to work and make sense almost entirely by
itself, or make sense in the context of someone else’s related
content, not instructor-specific
(e) Address accessibility issues
(f) Recommended tools: SoftChalk, Camtasia, Articulate, and other
ANGEL tools (e.g., ANGEL quiz)
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C)
D)
3) Instructional Design Technologists are willing to work with instructors as
a resource to develop RLOs. There is interest in supplemental pay for
more hands-on development.
Instructional Portfolios
Critical Thinking Resource Centers
1) Matthew will review the site and note ideas for improvement.
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