Management and Training Consultants, Inc.
Department of Defense
Third Party Education Assessment
CCME, 24 February 2013
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“Maximizing Human Potential”
About MTCI
 MTCI is a woman-owned small business that provides
superior military, government, and corporate solutions
on time and above expectations by teaming with our
clients, business partners and community in
“Maximizing Human Potential”
 MTCI has deep experience educating service
members and managing military programs
 MTCI has been executing the DoD Third Party
Education Assessment (3PEA) program since it began
in September 2011
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Assessment Staff
 David Truncellito, Ph.D., 3PEA Program Administrator
Over a decade as a university professor, including faceto-face, distance-learning and hybrid instruction of
traditional and adult learners
 John McCall, M.S., 3PEA Program Assistant
Navy veteran, beneficiary of voluntary education,
adjunct faculty member, extensive project management
experience
o Both have been with the program since its inception
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Assessment Process
 Designed to ensure that voluntary education
opportunities offered to service members using Tuition
Assistance are of the same high quality as the
opportunities offered to civilian adult learners
 Efficient process to minimize burden on military
installations and educational institutions
 Standardized, yet flexible and dynamic process
o No template for data collection – we will accept information in any
format that an entity might already be producing
See www.MTCI.us for complete FY13 assessment process
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Types of Assessments
 Installation assessments focus on the relationships
between installations and educational institutions that
provide instruction on those installations
 Educational institution assessments focus on entire
institutions and their educational offerings to service
members
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Timeline of Assessment Activity
Days
Actions
At least 90
before visit
MTCI sends notification of upcoming assessment, schedules visit (if
necessary), and requests information
45 before
visit
30-45
before visit
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Requested information is due
MTCI selects assessors
Site visit
4-5 days; interviews with faculty, students, staff, administrators
45 after
visit
Draft of Final Assessment Report distributed for error-in-fact
checking
60 after
visit
Final Assessment Report submitted to OUSD
Areas to be Assessed (at a minimum)
1. Academic partnership of the institution(s) with the service
2. Needs assessment
3. The methods whereby academic institutions are invited onto the installation;
4. Monitoring of institutional compliance with the MOU;
5. The support provided by various levels of the military for voluntary education;
6. The degree of congruence among various missions
7. The degree of consistency of programs for both military and civilian students
8. Responsiveness and flexibility toward service members
9. Students’ opportunity to evaluate the learning they receive
10. Marketing and communications
11. Institutional outcomes
12. Resources to support student learning
13. Faculty qualifications and standards
14. Policies to evaluate the performance and needs of faculty members
15. Academic and administrative student services
See www.MTCI.us for elaborations
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FY13 Assessment Schedule and Status
Assessed Entity
NB San Diego &
NB Coronado
Site Visit
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19 Oct
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3-7 Dec
Excelsior
MCB Camp Lejeune &
MCAS New River
Williston State College
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30 Nov
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14-17 Jan
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21 Dec
1 Feb
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4-8 Feb
18-21 March
Strayer University
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15 March
29 Apr-2 May
Joint Base Andrews
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5 April
20-24 May
Trident Univ. Int’l
3 May
17-20 Jun
Columbia Southern
7 June
22-25 July
Fort Bragg
5 July
19-23 August
2 August
16-19 Sept
Troy University
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Data Call Data Due Data Rec’d
Best Practices for Educational Institutions
• Minimizing costs for service members
• Employing specialized staff members to work with military students
• Providing training for faculty who will work with military students and
ensuring that faculty have flexibility to handle deployments
• Providing a mechanism to determine students’ suitability for distance
learning.
• Providing training for faculty who teach via distance learning
• Teaching at additional locations beyond the education center
• Maintaining relationships with education office staffs at installations
• Participating in military education conferences and organizations
• Participating in self-improvement programs
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Best Practices for Military Installations
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Remaining knowledgeable about the distance-learning landscape
Developing and deploying robust needs assessments
Holding an annual graduation ceremony
Automating the processing of TA
Ensuring that adequate opportunities for advising exist as TA
processing becomes automated
Management and Training Consultants, Inc.
Questions/Discussion
Thank You!
http://www.MTCI.us
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