QEP Team Meeting
Minutes
4/6/2010
Attended (via SPOC): Gail Lancaster, Maggie Tymms, Karen Hesting, Janice Thiel
Topics:
I)
II)
Assessment
A) The Educational Oversight Group will meet on Thursday, April 8, 10-11:30
a.m., EpiCenter 1-324. Janice will present a 15-minute Critical Thinking
Subcommittee update, using the Gateway Website, including revisiting the
three recommendations (Gateway Website, CT assessments, and CCSSE).
Combine QEC and CT Subcommittee for next meeting on Friday, September
17, 1:00-3:00 p.m.
B) Assessment Rubric for Critical Thinking (ARC)
1) Jesse met with the Ethics faculty on 3/26/2010. Jesse and Janice need to
work on logistics.
2) An ARC Scoring Workshop is scheduled for Friday, November 12, 12:00
p.m.-4:00 p.m., EpiCenter. Maggie and Jesse will facilitate. Will
student ARC assignments be completed/ready in time for workshop?
3) Maggie and Jesse will conduct an ARC Scenario Writing workshop at the
Faculty Champion Meeting on Friday, May 21.
4) Nursing has administered their ARC scenario and held a scoring event.
Janice has downloaded student assignments. Follow-up?
5) It is desired that any revisions to the ARC happen before the ARC
Scenario Writing Workshop scheduled for Friday, May 21. Gail will
send out her revised copy, and Maggie will discuss with Jesse.
C) Critical Thinking Assessment Test (CAT)
1) Anne Cooper delivered a thank you letter to the Math Department on
3/26/10 during the discipline meeting.
2) Math faculty proposal to FGO (see proposal).
3) CAT Scoring Workshop
(a) Friday, April 23, 8:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m., EpiCenter, 1-324.
(b) An invitation has been sent to 17 (3 declined; 4 accepted so far).
Janice will invite math faculty who administered the CAT and
their Dean Sharon Griggs.
(c) 121 completed tests.
(d) New CAT Overview CD and CAT Training Manuals received.
(e) Maggie will facilitate; Jesse will provide back-up.
(f) Janice will arrange continental breakfast, lunch, and snacks.
Suggestions
D) Meeting with Gen Ed Deans, Kay Burniston, and Anne Cooper was held on
3/15/2010 to emphasize continued effort on QEP.
Student Success
A) Classroom Activities
B) Rubrics
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III)
1) More rubric examples: Janice will ask Jesse about his rubric presentation.
Can Faculty Champions create a rubric to assess the Intervention? Look
at other college’s examples:
(a) http://www.sinclair.edu/about/learning/gened/genedrubrics/
(b) http://www.neiu.edu/~neassess/pdf/CriThinkRoger-long.pdf
C) ePortfolio
D) Student Activities – Downtown and Midtown will hold “Animal, Vegetable,
Miracle,” book club events April 7 and 8. Janice will send reminders to staff
assistants (e.g., Ann Donald, Sherry Armstrong).
Professional Development
A) Milton Cox from Miami University will present two workshops at the
Seminole Campus Conference Center:
1) April 14, 1:00-3:30 p.m. – An Introduction to Faculty Learning
Communities: Utilizing FLCs to Solve Problems and Seize
Opportunities (70 registered to attend)
2) April 15, 1:00-3:30 p.m. – Strategies, Practices, and Evidence to
Encourage and Facilitate Active-Learner-Centered Teaching (69
registered to attend)
B) The following still need to be contacted about their willingness, availability,
etc.:
1) Richard Paul – Foundation for Critical Thinking (questioning to promote
critical thinking)
2) Anthony Nappi & Michael Repici – SPC (student
engagement/collaborative learning)
C) Critical Thinking Institutes
1) Spring Critical Thinking Institute (Narrowing the Gulf)
(a) Held 3/18-19/2010
(b) Janice sent an evaluation to the participants from SPC. 35
responded (see results).
(c) Electronic materials for various critical thinking sessions now
available via the Gateway Web site.
2) Fall Critical Thinking Institute
(a) HEC
(b) Friday, October 8, 2010
(c) 8:00 a.m. – 12:00 noon
(d) Dr. Dean Kohrs will deliver the keynote ($1,500)
D) Faculty Champions
1) Many Faculty Champions attended the Spring Critical Thinking Institute
2) Still no Faculty Champions identified for Health Information Management
or Natural Science. Janice met with John Vaughan 4/5/2010.
3) Next Faculty Champion Meeting Friday, May 21, 9:00-11:00 a.m. (ARC
Scenario Writing)
4) The updated 2010 Calendar is now located via the “QEP Instructions &
Deliverables” group in ANGEL.
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IV)
5) Final Survey for 2009 Faculty Champions – Janice will create based upon
mid-point survey and send out to QEP team for input/feedback before
disseminating to 2009 Faculty Champions.
6) Faculty Champion Guide
(a) Janice is planning to create learning modules to help clarify
assessment and activities that promote critical thinking.
E) Academic Roundtables
1) Janice met with:
(a) Larry Goldsmith, Robert Meyer, and Cheryl Kerr on 3/30/2010.
(b) Valerie Polansky on 3/31/2010.
(c) Valerie Carter and others 4/1/2010
Critical Thinking Resources
A) Gateway Website
1) Janice followed-up with Faith Ocasio about repairing the search feature,
and is still awaiting a response.
2) Donna will follow-up with consolidating and organizing the listing of
library resources: books, journal articles, Web sites, ebooks, and
videos, and meet again with Janice at a later date.
B) RLO’s
1) Karen will conduct an RLO Workshop at the Faculty Champion Meeting
scheduled for Friday, June 11.
C) Instructional Portfolios
1) Janice is awaiting a response from an email sent to Christy Powers
requesting a meeting.
2) Janice teleconferenced with Bonnie Jefferis on 3/22/2010.
3) Janice met with Holly Hoopes on 3/23/2010. Business Technologies’
Instructional Portfolio complete.
D) Critical Thinking Resource Centers
1) QEP has purchased institution-wide access to the “Journal on Excellence
in College Teaching” to be accessed through the Library databases.
Awaiting word on access.
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