Quality Enhancement Plan: An Update

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Quality Enhancement Plan An Update

• November 16, 2006

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Quality Enhancement Plan

• Context -Gina
• Significance - Gina, Andrea, Dwight
• Update-Andrea
• Seven oversight Committees
• curriculum, instruction, support, advisement,
  assessment, research, steering
• Status of Best Practices (See Handout)
• Pending Items
• Recommendations -Andrea

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Significance of the QEP Commitment

• We are under the gun with SACS. QEPs is an
  accreditation issueNot a choice, but a mandate
• With the support of the presidents, we committed
  to implement QEP. That has not happened
• Original budget endorsed but never came to
  fruition

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Status of Best Practices

• Best Practices
• Frequent Assessment
• Survey data and syllabi being collected to
  identify faculty using assessment in its true
  form
• (test, provide feedback, re-test)
• Success rate data will be collected from faculty
  using frequent testing as prescribed
• Learning Communities
• List of current users being compiled
• We have approximately 12 to 20 Learning
  Communities at work
• Training the Trainer
• We are trained to train open lab tutors by CRLA
  (College Reading and Learning Association)
• We have trained approximately 80 tutors and
  supervisors collegewide

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Best Practices (cont)

• Learning Style and Supplemental Instruction
  Training
• Workshops will be presented to CTD and Deans for
  approval- (February 2007)
• Paul Nolte, Consultant
• Lab Upgrades
• Kendall (from VW to Bentley)
• Data Collection and Analyses
• Baseline data on what works and what does not
• Arrive at a common definition
• Identify faculty who is implementing the practice
• Measure success
• Disseminate
• Ongoing Piloting of new software and data
  collection

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Pending

• Common definition of the various practices
• Data collection and analysis
• Training
• Implementation
• Funding
• Evaluation

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Recommendations

• Discuss with Presidents the need to commit funds
  to support QEP college-wide
• Fund a part-time faculty coordinator responsible
  for monitoring the implementation of QEP
  College-wide (Kendall)
• Identify testing space
• Hire part-time proctors