QEP Team Meeting
Minutes
09/01/2009
Attended (via SPOC): Gail Lancaster, Carol Weideman, Karen Hesting
Topics:
I)
II)
Miscellaneous
A) Janice will schedule the next set of QEP Team Meetings via SPOC for the
first Tuesday of the month at 3:00 p.m.
B) QEC Meeting
1) Friday, September 25, 1:00-3:00 p.m.
2) EpiCenter - 2-304
3) Subcommittees will not meet.
4) Agenda
(a) Faculty Champions & Academic Roundtables Updates
(b) Updates
(i) Student Success
(ii) Professional Development
(iii) Critical Thinking Resources
(c) Assessment
(d) Fall Critical Thinking Institute (morning munchies sign-up)
(e) In general, what kinds of professional development do we need?
(f) Also, good books/resources that support critical thinking should be
recommended for library purchase. Send Gail the title and author.
Student Success
A) Classroom Activities
1) The first eight Critical Thinking Activity/Reusable Learning Objects
(RLOs) are now listed via the Gateway Website:
http://www.spcollege.edu/criticalthinking/resources/rlo.htm
2) Janice has not yet heard from Mike Carnahan regarding the status of the
Activity/RLO online submission form. According to Karen, the
ANGEL upgrade has caused a number of issues with SPOC tools that
are keeping Mike busy. Karen will check with Mike about the form.
3) Gail will input the discipline-specific activities she has received from QEC
members into the existing form:
https://it.spcollege.edu/cfsurveys/survey.cfm?su_id=2727
B) Rubrics
1) Bonnie Jefferis revised the ARC scenario for Communications.
C) ePortfolio
1) Janice has appointments scheduled, or is working to schedule with
disciplines that use ePortfolios:
(a) College of Education – Paul Angerosa: Thursday, September 3,
9:30 a.m., Tarpon Springs - CE 109
(b) Dental Hygiene – Jeanette Siladie: Wednesday, September 2, 3:30
p.m., HEC - HE 103D
(c) Paralegal – TBD
D) Student Activities
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II)
1) Janice’s attendance at Tonjua Williams’ student activity coordinators
meeting in July was postponed until Wednesday, September 16, 1:003:00 p.m., EpiCenter 2-423. Gail will attend.
2) Focus on the SPC Reads Book “Animal, Vegetable, Miracle.”
3) Janice will remind coordinators about the “Critical Thinking Programs”
database.
Professional Development
A) Janice attended the SACS Summer Institute 7/19-22/09. It was very
informative, particularly relating to assessing the QEP. Next year’s is in
Tampa on July 25-28, 2010.
B) Critical Thinking Institutes
1) Fall Critical Thinking Institute @ SP/Gibbs
(a) Friday, October 9, 8:30-12:00
(b) Janice is soliciting presenters. Carol will facilitate a CAT panel
discussion. Gail will plan a break-out session on critically
thinking about critical thinking exercises in text books. Karen
will check with the Instructional Technologists to gauge interest.
(c) The day will begin with a few breakfast munchies (QEC-donated),
followed by a welcome by Karen White, and “institute overview”
by Gail Lancaster.
(d) Faculty Champions will participate in a 30-minute panel discussion
moderated by a student (Janice will contact SP/Gibbs SGA
President, Leja Apple, about doing this.)
(e) There will be two break-out sessions, 45 minutes each.
(f) Lunch will not be coordinated.
2) Spring Critical Thinking Institute (Narrowing the Gulf)
(a) March 18-19, 2010
(b) Barry Stein has agreed to give the keynote for $2,750 (including
travel).
(c) Call for proposals coming by the end of September.
C) Faculty Champions
1) 12 Faculty Champions and discipline representative participated in the
CAT Scoring Workshop held on 7/10/09.
2) All disciplines represented at the Faculty Champion meeting held on
8/28/09.
3) Mika Nelson has scheduled a meeting with Heather Disler on Wednesday,
September 9, 9:00 a.m. at the Downtown Center regarding the ARC
Scenario administration in LIS 1002.
4) Faculty Champion Guide
(a) The linkage between the Instructional Portfolios group and the
Instructions & Deliverables group no longer works in the
upgraded version of ANGEL. A message was sent to all Faculty
Champions about this on 8/10/09. Janice will clear out the
nonfunctioning links, and continue to work on content for
September through December.
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D)
(b) A video to highlight the College of Education's Student Learning
Inquiry Project (SLIP) and how this interfaces with QEP/critical
thinking was developed and is now being revised.
(c) Carol has Camtasia and will narrate her PowerPoint about the
ARC.
(d) Gail will collect journal articles that describe an intervention and
associated assessment (concrete examples).
(e) Janice will follow-up to build modules with Holly Hoopes and
Carol.
(f) Nancy Watkins videotaped a lesson that incorporated the graphic
organizers. Janice will follow-up with her to re-shoot.
Academic Round Tables
1) 2009 Summer Deliverables:
(a) Library complete.
(b) Business Technologies, Communications, Nursing, and Paralegal
still working.
2) 2009 Fall Deliverables:
(a) Instructional Portfolio component
(i) Systematic Observation
(ii) Observations
(iii) Results Analysis
(iv) Peer Evaluation
(v) Key Issues
(vi) Results Synthesis
(vii) Context of Knowledge Base
(b) Base Drop Boxes & Forms
(i) ART Action Items (August, September, October,
November, December)
(ii) Portfolio Report
(iii) Session Description for Spring Critical Thinking Institute
(iv) Final Survey
3) 2010 Projected Disciplines:
(a) Natural Science (faculty has contacted already) – John Vaughan
(b) Dental Hygiene – Katie Woods
(c) O&P – Sam Phillips
(d) Vet Tech – Richard Flora
(e) Emergency Medical Services – Nerina Stepanovsky
(f) Funeral Services – Kevin Davis
(g) Health Information Management – Martin Smith
(h) Hospitality & Tourism Management – Robert Meyer
(i) Human Services – Cheryl Kerr
(j) Medical Laboratory Technology – Valerie Polansky
(k) Parks & Leisure Services – Larry Goldsmith
(l) Physical Therapist Assistant – Rebecca Kramer
(m) Radiography – John Fleming
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III)
IV)
(n) Respiratory Care – Steve Mikles
(o) Veterinary Technology – Richard Flora
4) Janice met with Jonathan Steele and Mark Hunter on 7/14/09 regarding
the possibility of Mark serving as a Faculty Champion for Humanities
for 2010. Nothing was decided, however.
Critical Thinking Resources
A) Gateway Website
1) Janice met with Donna Kelly on 7/30/09. Donna is working to consolidate
and organize the listing of library resources: books, journal articles,
Web sites, ebooks, videos.
2) Links to the WITS-QEC Liaison Weblog via “Ask an Expert.” Karen is
posting updates.
B) RLO’s
1) The first eight Critical Thinking Activity/Reusable Learning Objects
(RLOs) are now listed via the Gateway Website:
http://www.spcollege.edu/criticalthinking/resources/rlo.htm
1) Janice has not yet heard from Mike Carnahan regarding the status of the
Activity/RLO online submission form. According to Karen, the
ANGEL upgrade has caused a number of issues with SPOC tools that
are keeping Mike busy. Karen will check with Mike about the form.
C) Instructional Portfolios
1) Gail will take a look at her Lily materials for ideas to help develop an
evaluation instrument for the Instructional Portfolios.
D) Critical Thinking Resource Centers
1) Good books that support critical thinking should be recommended for
library purchase. Send Gail the title and author.
Assessment
A) Direction
1) Janice met with Carol, Jesse Coraggio, and Maggie Tymms on 8/18/09 to
clarify QEP assessment, particularly:
(a) Process vs. Learning Outcomes
(i) While process outcomes are important, the emphasis of
assessing the QEP is its impact on student learning
outcomes as addressed in our response to the visiting
committee report.
(b) Assessments
(i) IR&E oversees iSkills, MAPP, Alumni, Employer, and the
developing Gen Ed. Assessment, and will relay results to
the Faculty Champion for Assessment.
(ii) There are no plans to administer the CCSSE, but there will
be engagement-type items included in the SSI for Spring.
(iii) ePortfolio and “SPC Course Journals” are not being
implemented at this time.
(iv) ARC will be administered at random to target courses
within participating disciplines this fall, and each fall
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B)
thereafter, in an accumulating fashion as more disciplines
are added. Scoring will take place in the fall or spring.
(v) CAT will be administered this spring and each spring
thereafter to specifically targeted yet-to-be-determined
(math?) courses. Scoring will take place in the summer.
(c) “College-wide systematic review of educational outcomes”
(i) The Critical Thinking Subcommittee will review
institutional data in October (date TBD), and identify goals
and objectives to improve student learning. This will be
reported to the Educational Oversight Committee to
incorporate into that process.
(d) Roles & Responsibilities
(i) The QEP Impact Report will be accomplished as a team
effort.
(ii) The QEP Director is monitoring the various process
indicators.
(iii) IR&E oversees various assessments (see above), and
already does much of the QEP Assessment Coordinator’s
intended responsibilities, and is available as a resource.
(iv) The Faculty Champion for Assessment’s deliverables for
fall will involve: ARC scoring, QEP Targets, Faculty
Champion advisement, meetings, Critical Thinking
Institute, and assessment module.
2) Janice met with Anne Cooper on 8/24/09 to review QEP assessment topics
listed above.
3) Critical Thinking Subcommittee of the Educational Oversight Group
(a) Meeting – Wednesday, October 21, 2:00-4:00 p.m., EpiCenter, 2423.
(b) Focus – The focus will be on the institutional data, in order to
identify goals and objectives to improve student learning that will
be reported back to the Educational Oversight Committee to
incorporate into that process.
(c) Process measures and learning outcomes (ARC Pilot, CAT). Carol
will talk to Sharon Griggs to introduce the idea of focusing the
CAT administration on specific math courses.
Assessment Rubric for Critical Thinking (ARC)
1) ARC Scoring Workshop
(a) Friday, November 13
(b) 12:00-4:00 p.m.
(c) EpiCenter - 1-324
(d) Per Carol’s direction, Faculty Champions have been asked to invite
a few of their discipline’s faculty to participate. Approximately 5
scenario responses per hour per person can be scored, meaning
15 can be scored per person during the 4-hour ARC Scoring
Workshop.
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(e) Carol will follow-up with the Faculty Champions for their
guidance on scoring their discipline’s scenario.
2) Fall ARC Administration
(a) Janice met with Anne Cooper on 7/9/09 to discuss the random
administration of the ARC in the fall, and Anne sent a “heads-up”
email to the Deans the same day.
(b) Faculty Champions identified which course(s) their ARC scenario
was best suited, and Carol selected class sections, at random.
(c) Janice followed-up with the Deans via email on 7/16/09, indicating
the randomly selected sections for fall.
(d) Janice provided detailed instructions and guidelines for the Deans
on 8/25/09 to forward to participating faculty:
(i) Thank you for administering the ARC to your class this
fall. Your participation will help SPC assess the critical
thinking learning outcomes. Below are some general
instructions and guidelines. Feel free to get in touch if you
have any questions or concerns:

The ARC scenario assignment (attached) was
developed by your Academic Roundtable for
Business Technologies for the course(s): CTS 1334.

Your course was selected at random from all fall
sections of CTS 1334.

Provide each student a copy of the attached file
which includes the scenario and the scoring rubric.
You may make photocopies, or display it via
overhead projection in the classroom, or create an
*electronic Drop Box assignment with it in your
ANGEL course.

Students respond essay-style, and may either hand
write (legibly) on paper or type an *electronic word
processing file, whichever you prefer.

Students must read the scenario and respond
independently. They may not work in groups or
partners.

Students should review the scoring rubric and
consider this as they craft their response to the
scenario. Please explain this to your students, and
encourage them to do their very best.

It should take approximately one hour for a student to
complete the assignment. You may allow more time,
if you like.

Students may complete this assignment in-class, as
homework handed in later, or *via online submission
in ANGEL. This is up to you.
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C)
Collect the students' completed papers. Make copies
for yourself to keep, if you like. Then, interoffice the
originals to Janice Thiel. Be sure to indicate your
course section number with these papers. If using an
*electronic Drop Box in ANGEL, make Janice an
editor of that course, and email her the course section
and location within the Lessons content where the
Drop Box exists. If using ANGEL, there is no need
for you to make photocopies to interoffice to Janice.

If you kept photocopies of your students' papers, or if
you used an *ANGEL Drop Box, you may use the
rubric to score your students yourself. Incorporating
this score into your course's grading scheme will help
motivate your students to do their best. You may also
consider offering extra credit for completing this
assignment.

Please have this completed by October 23.

A random selection of all submitted assignments will
be assessed during an upcoming ARC Scoring
Workshop.
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*Electronic submission via ANGEL is preferred and
highly encouraged. Please contact your Campus
Instructional Technologist if you need assistance:
http://it.spcollege.edu/edtech/contactInfo/index.cfm?i
tonly=true
(e) Janice and Bonnie Jefferis presented the ARC pilot to
Communications faculty on 8/20/09.
Critical Thinking Assessment Test (CAT)
1) The CAT Scoring workshop was held on 7/10/09, and was attended by 12
Faculty Champions and other discipline representatives.
2) Grant money was used to purchase refreshments.
3) Maggie Tymms completed the 2009 CAT Scoring Session report on
7/30/09.
4) Carol will talk to Sharon Griggs to introduce the idea of focusing the CAT
administration on specific math courses.
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