QEP Team Meeting
Minutes
11/24/08
Attended (via SPOC): Janice Thiel, Lynn Grinnell, Jesse Coraggio, Gail Lancaster
Topics:
I)
Student Success
A) ePortfolio
1) Janice teleconferenced with Alan Shapiro on 11/21. There is the
possibility of using the ePortfolio in ANGEL 7.3, at least for collecting
student artifacts.
2) Janice has a meeting with Ken Pereira on 12/2, and will find out if the
ePortfolio can be activated for the ANGEL 7.3 pilot during Spring
2009.
3) Alan has agreed to take a look at what it can do during that timeframe.
4) If its ability is too limited to be of practical use, Janice will update the
feasibility report to recommend discontinuing the ePortfolio initiative.
B) Student Activities – Gail will ask if Tonjua is interested in continuing as the
point-of-contact or if another individual is recommended.
II) Professional Development
A) Fall Critical Thinking Institute
1) Online evaluation/survey – mostly “agree” and “strongly agree.”
2) Thank you notes have been sent to all presenters and organizers.
3) Janice will send “Certificates of Attendance” prior to the winter holiday.
B) 2009 Academic Round Tables
1) Janice met with Joseph Smiley on 11/3 and Sharon Griggs on 11/12.
2) Janice has a meeting on 12/3 with Susan Demers and Jonathan Steele, and
12/8 with Martha Campbell.
3) Holly Hoopes is Faculty Champion for Business Technologies, and is
interested in Sonoma Course. Janice will look into registration for
Holly.
4) The Librarians are interested in forming an Academic Round Table. Janice
will contact Pat Barbier, who has taken the lead, to determine their next
steps – formal or informal.
C) Faculty Champion and Academic Round Table Retreat – Friday, 1/30,
Civitan Beach Club.
1) Morning (9-11:30) – Current Faculty Champions and members of their
Academic Round Tables will complete the Instructional Portfolio
Report.
2) Pot Luck Lunch (11:30-12:30) – Current Academic Round Tables,
together with Upcoming Academic Round Tables.
3) Afternoon (12:30-3:00) – Upcoming Faculty Champions and members of
their Academic Round Tables for 2009 will participate in a teambuilding activity and be familiarized with the learning community
concept.
4) Janice will announce a “Save the Date” for current Faculty Champions,
and invite upcoming Faculty Champions as they are identified by their
Deans.
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D) Faculty Champion Course
1) Online learning resource and guide for Faculty Champions, and the
vehicle for submitting deliverables.
2) Janice met with Gail on 11/20.
3) Gail will film video about Learning Communities on 12/9. She will also
work with Paul Marks to update her old video on critical thinking.
4) Gail will use Camtasia to create RLO of interactive model of critical
thinking.
5) Jesse will produce a video on the ARC and assessment, possibly the
afternoon of Wednesday, January 7 or Friday, January 9. Janice will
check with Paul Marks to arrange a date.
6) Set of Twenty Thinker’s Guides X10 have been ordered and will be
distributed to upcoming Faculty Champions.
7) Critical Thinking Sets for Faculty Champions will be loaned to upcoming
Faculty Champions.
E) Lynn will contact John Ferron (and Dr. Lou Carey?) and invite him to present
at Narrowing the Gulf, to produce a teaching module.
F)
2009 Calendar – Janice will speak with Dr. Cooper, and others sensitive to
faculty, to consider a set meeting date/time of 1:00-4:00 p.m. on the last
Friday of the month.
Critical Thinking Resources
A) Gateway Website
1) Janice teleconferenced with Vicki Westergard 11/18
2) Janice met with Donna Kelly 11/19
3) Faith Ocasio is organizing back-end files and fixing navigation
4) Donna is arranging a subcommittee meeting to debut the site.
5) The site will be launched, officially, upon our return from winter break.
B) Instructional Portfolios
1) Lynn will help pull together an example.
2) Reports written by the current ARTs during the retreat on 1/30 will begin
this resource.
Assessment
A) Discipline-specific assessments for critical thinking. Janice will work within
the Critical Thinking Subcommittee of the Educational Oversight Committee
to find out what’s already going on with the assessment of critical thinking
(e.g., Ethics, College of Education).
B) ARC Scoring Workshop – Friday, 12/12, 3:00-6:00 p.m., EpiCenter, 1-450
1) Participants need to bring copies of student work and the rubric that the
students were provided (in case it was changed).
2) Jesse will “tweak” the validity/reliability sheet used at the last workshop,
and forward to Janice to use for scoring information.
C) Assessment Faculty Champion (AFC)
1) Janice will contact Dr. Cooper to help clarify:
(a) How will AFC’s responsibilities “dovetail” with I.E.?
(b) Should AFC be a member of the Educational Oversight
Committee?
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(c) Is Stipend $5,000 (4 hours/week) acceptable?
2) Carol Weideman has agreed; meeting with Janice on 12/3
3) Carol’s duties/deliverables (proposed):
(a) Update blueprint for goals and targets (see SACS response
document) – assessment methodology – and monitor how close
we are to reaching goals.
(b) Coordinate the development of discipline-specific critical thinking
assessments.
(c) Facilitate ARC scoring workshop
(d) Help collect examples of assessments and anonymous examples of
students work for SACS report (e.g., pre/post, year 1/year 2).
(e) Administer CAT once per semester
(f) Meet with ARTs, as needed
(g) Participate in Critical thinking subcommittee of Educational
Oversight Group (e.g., programs that have goal with appropriate
assessment in SPOL)
(h) Attend biweekly QEP Team Meetings.
(i) ePortfolio?
(i) Look at COE LiveText
(ii) Paper copies – ARC
Janice and Lynn will arrange a date (week of 12/15?) to provide a QEP Update for
Drs. Cooper & Olliver.
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