QEP Team Meeting
Minutes
2/2/2010
Attended (via SPOC): Gail Lancaster, Maggie Tymms, Karen Hesting, Janice Thiel
Topics:
I)
Assessment
A) The Educational Oversight Group will meet on Thursday, April 8, 10-11:30
a.m., EpiCenter 1-324. Maggie will find out if the Critical Thinking
Subcommittee should meet beforehand in order to report to Ed. Oversight.
B) Assessment Rubric for Critical Thinking (ARC)
1) Jesse Coraggio completed the report from the scoring workshop held on
11/20/09. Maggie shared the report at the ART Retreat on 1/29/10.
2) Janice and Jesse met with Jane Till on 1/25/10 to discuss collecting
samples of students work from the Ethics ARC assignment. Jane
relayed concerns from faculty regarding scoring/grading, which were
relieved when the concept of the ARC Scoring Workshop was clarified.
Jesse will meet with the Ethics faculty on Friday, March 26, 2010.
3) An ARC Scoring Workshop is scheduled for Friday, November 12, 12:00
p.m.-4:00 p.m., EpiCenter. Maggie will mention the need for a
facilitator to Jesse, and Janice will follow-up with Kay Burniston.
4) ARC Scenario-Writing workshop at the Faculty Champion Meeting
Friday, May 28? Maggie will discuss this with Jesse.
5) Nursing has administered their ARC scenario and held a scoring event.
Janice has downloaded student assignments. Follow-up?
6) Gail will begin a process to revise the ARC. Janice will get Gail a copy of
the Ethics ARC.
C) Critical Thinking Assessment Test (CAT)
1) Janice has met with all but one instructor to drop off the tests, to review
the directions for administering the CAT, and to answer any questions
they may have. Janice will administer the CAT to the remaining
instructor’s class on February 9.
2) Instructors will administer the CAT during the month of February, and
Janice will follow-up to pick up the completed tests.
3) A CAT Scoring Workshop is scheduled for Friday, April 23, 8:00 a.m.5:00 p.m., EpiCenter, 1-324. Maggie will mention the need for a
facilitator to Jesse, and Janice will follow-up with Kay.
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Room
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Instructor
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Joel
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Schrader
David J.
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Student Success
A) Classroom Activities
B) Rubrics
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 – Campuses are conducting various activities relating to
the “Animal, Vegetable, Miracle” book. Janice will remind student activities
coordinators about the “Critical Thinking Programs/Events” form and student
survey.
Professional Development
A) Janice met with Matthew Stewart of Staff and Program Development on
1/20/10 and discussed partnering to bring presenters to SPC. Plans are in the
works to have Milton Cox from Miami University present in the spring.
B) Researched ideas were discussed at the Faculty Champion Meeting held on
12/11/09. The following will be contacted about their willingness,
availability, etc.:
1) Richard Paul – Foundation for Critical Thinking (questioning to promote
critical thinking)
2) John Ferron – University of South Florida (critical thinking multiple
choice questions)
3) Dean Kohrs – “Hacking College” (improving teaching)
4) Anthony Nappi & Michael Repici – SPC (student
engagement/collaborative learning)
C) Critical Thinking Institutes
1) The ART Beach Retreat held at the Civitan Beach Club on 1/29/10 was
attended by 33 faculty and staff. Janice has sent Certificates of
Attendance to attendees, thank you notes to presenters, a follow-up
message to the new Faculty Champions, and an article for the Blue &
White to Mike O’Keeffe. Janice will send an evaluation to participants.
2) Spring Critical Thinking Institute (Narrowing the Gulf)
(a) March 18-19, 2010, EpiCenter
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(b) A special invitation-only session for Faculty Champions with
keynote speaker Dr. Barry Stein is scheduled for Thursday,
March 18, 9:30-11:00 a.m., EpiCenter, 1-324.
(c) Janice purchased 10 copies of Dr. Stein’s book, “The Ideal
Problem Solver,” and these are on-loan to Faculty Champions.
(d) Critical Thinking sessions:
Name
Topic
David Sullivan
Perceptions of Critical Thinking – Is critical
Thinking important to employers and employees –
a local EMS Example
Karen Hesting
Improving student critical thinking skills using
& Nancy
Google tools
Munce
Nancy Watkins Utilizing Graphic organizers to infuse Critical
Thinking into Content Areas
Richard
Engaging Students with Power Point Presentations
Mercadante
Jesse Coraggio
Mastering the Art of Writing Objective Test Items
Gail Lancaster
Top 10 Classroom Strategies to Get Your Students
& Janice Thiel
to Think
David Monroe
Ethics Text Critical Thinking Chapter
Bonnie Jefferis, Symposium on Developing an Instructional
Sarah Moseley
Portfolio
Meg Delgato
Asking the Right Questions
D)
3) The Fall Critical Thinking Institute will be held at HEC on Friday,
October 8, 2010.
Faculty Champions
1) 2010 Faculty Champions have been identified:
(a) Dental Hygiene, Health Services, & Orthotics & Prosthetics –
Valerie Carter
(b) Emergency Medical Services – Bill Ballo
(c) Funeral Services – Gary Brown (partnering with Respiratory Care
and Physical Therapist Assistant?)
(d) Human Services – Cheryl Kerr
(e) Medical Laboratory Technology – Valerie Polansky
(f) Physical Therapist Assistant – (partnering with Funeral Services
and Respiratory Care?)
(g) Radiography – Todd VanAuken
(h) Respiratory Care – Steve Hardt (partnering with Funeral Service
and Physical Therapist Assistant?)
(i) Veterinary Technology BAS – Cynthia Grey & Wendy Rib
(j) Veterinary Technology AS – Ginny Price
2) 2010 Faculty Champions have NOT been identified (no representation at
the ART Retreat on 1/29/10):
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(a) Health Information Management – Martin Smith has left SPC.
Janice has been in email contact with Eric Carver and Shirley
Collar. Janice sent the 2010 Calendar and next meeting reminder.
(b) Hospitality & Tourism Management – No contact from Robert
Meyer. Janice sent the 2010 Calendar and next meeting reminder.
(c) Natural Science – Janice met with John Vaughan on 1/20/10 to
discuss the selection of a Faculty Champion for Natural Science.
Janice sent the 2010 Calendar and next meeting reminder.
(d) Parks & Leisure Services – Larry Goldsmith has emailed Janice.
Janice sent the 2010 Calendar and next meeting reminder.
3) The 2010 Calendar (subject to change) was disseminated at the ART
Retreat on 1/29/10:
Date
Event
Location
Friday, January 29, 10:00
Civitan Beach
ART Beach Retreat
a.m.-3:00 p.m.
Club
Friday, February 12, 1:00- Faculty Champion
EpiCenter - 13:00 p.m.
Meeting
304
Spring Critical
Thursday, March 18 and
Thinking
EpiCenter
Friday, March 19
Institute/Narrowing the
Gulf
Faculty Champion
Thursday, March 18, 9:30EpiCenter - 1Meeting with Barry
11:00 a.m.
324
Stein
Friday, April 23, 8:00 a.m.- CAT Scoring
EpiCenter - 15:00 p.m.
Workshop
324
Faculty Champion
Friday, May 28,
HEC?
Meeting
Faculty Champion
Friday, June 11,
HEC?
Meeting
Faculty Champion
Friday, July 9,
HEC?
Meeting
Faculty Champion
Friday, August 27,
HEC?
Meeting
Friday, September 17,
EpiCenter –
QEC Meeting
1:00-3:00 p.m.
2-304
Fall Critical Thinking
Friday, October 8,
HEC
Institute
Friday, November 12,
ARC Scoring
EpiCenter - 112:00 p.m.-4:00 p.m.
Workshop
324?
Friday, December 10, 1:00- Faculty Champion
EpiCenter - 13:00 p.m.
Meeting
312?
4) Janice will schedule a room (194) at HEC for the May, June, July, and
August meetings, per feedback at the ART Retreat on 1/29/10.
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IV)
5) Faculty Champion Meeting will be held on Friday, February 12, 1:00-3:00
p.m., EpiCenter, 1-304
(a) What is critical thinking – SPC definition, elements/standards
(b) Hands-on with ANGEL Community Groups: “Instructional
Portfolios for Critical Thinking” and “QEP Instructions and
Deliverables.”
(c) Check out Critical Thinking Collections, Guides, and SPOC
equipment.
6) Final Survey for 2009 Faculty Champions – Janice will poll current
Faculty Champions to find out what questions they feel should be on a
final survey for Faculty Champions.
7) 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 Phil Nicotera on 1/15/10 who expressed concern about
two programs having difficulty identifying a Faculty Champion –
Human Services and Medical Laboratory Technology – because those
programs do not have any full-time faculty. Subsequent discussion with
Kay Burniston and Gail has concluded that an exception for these two
programs will be allowed so that their academic leads, who also teach
for the program, will serve as Faculty Champions.
2) Janice met with Nerina Stepanovsky and EMS faculty on 1/19/10 to
discuss the critical thinking initiative and the selection of a Faculty
Champion.
3) Janice met with Respiratory Care, Physical Therapist Assistant, and
Funeral Services faculty on 1/20/10 to discuss the critical thinking
initiative and the selection of a Faculty Champion.
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 continues to work on consolidating and organizing the listing of
library resources: books, journal articles, Web sites, ebooks, and
videos.
B) RLO’s
1) RLO Workshop for 2010 Faculty Champions Friday, June 11?
C) Instructional Portfolios
1) Karen and Janice are investigating the potential of Google Docs for
making the Instructional Portfolio Evaluation document more
interactive.
2) Janice will follow-up with 2009 Faculty Champions about the completion
of their Instructional Portfolios.
3) Janice has created Instructional Portfolio templates for the new disciplines
in ANGEL, and has provided the 2010 Faculty Champions access to
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D)
the “Instructional Portfolios for Critical Thinking” and “QEP
Instructions & Deliverables” groups. Janice will provide follow-up
instruction at the Faculty Champion Meeting scheduled for Friday,
February 12, 1:00-3:00 p.m., EpiCenter, 1-304.
Critical Thinking Resource Centers
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