Quality Enhancement Plan QEP Faculty Session

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Quality Enhancement Plan (QEP) Faculty Session

• Fall Faculty Pre-Service
• Wednesday, August 25, 2004

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List of QEP Specialists

• QEP Instructional Specialists (QIS)
• QEP Non-Instructional Specialists (QNS)
• www.ctcd.edu
• Click SACS-COC (bottom middle, green bar)
• Click Quality Enhancement Plan
• Click on any topic (left)
• under QEP Specialists Tools

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WE NEED YOUR HELP!

• SACS-COC Visiting Team will interview students
  regarding the QEP
• Please make sure your students understand the
  following
• What is the QEP?
• Whats the title of CTCs QEP?
• What is the main goal of the QEP?
• What is the students role in the QEP?

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What is the students role in the QEP?

• Provide feedback through surveys and focus groups
• Participate in the measurement process
• Experience the intervention (Spring 2005)
• Provide intervention feedback
• Serve on the QEP Core Committee (selected
  students)
• Read the QEP FOCUS Newsletter

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Fall 2004

• Each unit will implement a baseline measurement
• All instructional units have chosen
• Pre-/Post-tests
• Each faculty member will choose at least one
  class to administer tests
• Pre-testduring first week of class
• Post-testduring last week of class

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Pre-/Post-Tests

• Items on course pre-/post-tests must be from the
  course learning objectives
• Items should address all levels of questions at a
  similar rate as learning objectives
• Knowledge
• Application
• Synthesis
• Analysis
• Evaluation

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Pre-/Post-Tests

• Items on pre-test should be same items or same
  level items as on the post-test
• Each faculty member is responsible for
• Pre-/post-test scores
• Average of Fall scores
• Average of Spring scores
• housing and reporting data to QIS (May 2005)

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Fall 2004

• First weekfaculty member administers pre-test
• First weekfaculty member averages test scores,
  records average, and stores tests
• Fallfaculty member teaches course like in the
  past
• Last weekfaculty members determine with their
  unit members which instructional feedback
  intervention to implement in Spring 2005
• Last weekfaculty member administers the same (or
  similar) questions in a post-test
• Last weekfaculty member averages test scores,
  records average, and stores tests
• storage of data is determined by unit leader/QIS

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Spring 2005

• Faculty member repeats procedures 1 and 2 from
  Fall semester
• Faculty member applies a pre-determined
  instructional feedback intervention
• Faculty member repeats procedures 5 and 6 from
  Fall semester
• Faculty member submits all data on Unit Faculty
  Member Report using Moodle (due May 15)

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Reminders

• the main goal of the QEP is to improve student
  learning
• Instructional feedback is the issue chosen to
  effect student learning
• Improvement of student learning will be
  documented when comparing Fall test gains to
  Spring test gains

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Example Data (one course)

• Fall pre-test 30 average
• Fall post-test 61 average
• Fall difference 31 points
• Spring pre-test 35 average
• Spring post-test 68 average
• Spring difference 33 points
• A 2-point gain in student learning is documented
• student learning improved

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Reminders (contd)

• We are not measuring instructional feedback
• We are using instructional feedback to effect
  gains in student learning
• We are measuring improvements (gains) in student
  learning

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QEP

• The strength in our QEP is that each individual
  unit decides for itself
• Which baseline measurement to use
• Which measurement technique to use
• Which intervention (related to instructional
  feedback) to use
• Advantages
• Promotes participation and ownership
• Makes the QEP meaningful to everyone

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NEXT TRAINING

• Everyone must attend one 1-hour session in
  preparation for the SACS-COC site visit
• October 1 (Friday)800, 915, 1030,
• (Building 150, room 1075)
• October 2 (Saturday)10 a.m.
• (Building 152, room 101)
• October 8 (Friday)9 a.m.
• (Building 152, room 101)
• October 9 (Saturday)8 a.m.
• (Building 152, room 101)

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Announcements

• SACS-COC Visiting Team will be on campus Oct.
  19-21
• You may be asked to be interviewed
• QEP Quiz (Aug. FOCUS Newsletter)
• QEP Quiz Answers (Sept. FOCUS Newsletter)
• FOCUS NewsletterStudent Version

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QUESTIONS?

• contact your QIS
• Contact your unit leader
• Contact the Quality Enhancement Plan Core
  Committee (QCC)