Curriculum Development

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Curriculum Development
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President Bush-State of Union (1/20/04)
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Community Colleges

• Must offer broad array of programs
• Deliver high quality education
• Deliver cost-effective education
• Delivery to wide audiences including unemployed,
  under-employed, or seeking career prospects
• Role in meeting extreme labor shortages

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Lansing Community CollegeWest Campus M-TEC
Facility

• 262,000 square feet
• 55 acre site.
• Conference facilities.
• 65 heated and cooled using Geothermal.
• Open-entry modularized curriculum.

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Challenges

• Anticipate job market
• Anticipate curriculum needs aligned to business
• Offer courses in rapid-response mode
• Leaders in streamlining development, approval and
  offering of course
• Keep faculty current

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Steps in Curriculum Development Process

• Task Analysis
• Performance/Learning Objectives or Outcomes
• Developing Instructional Strategies
• Implementation
• Evaluation/Assessment of Learning

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Task Analysis
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Two Methods of Task Analysis
Survey Method DACUM
Critical Incident Technique
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3 types of content
Affective
Cognitive
Psychomotor
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National Skill Standards

• Agriculture, Forestry, and Fishing
• Business and Administrative Services
• Construction
• Education and Training
• Finance and Insurance
• Health and Human Services
• Manufacturing, Installation and Repair
• Mining
• Public Administration, Legal and Protective
  Services
• Restaurants, Lodging, Hospitality and Tourism,
  and Amusement
• Retail trade, Wholesale Trade, Real Estate, and
  Personal Services
• Science and Technical Services
• Telecommunications, Computers, Arts and
  Entertainment, and Information Technology
• Transportation
• Utilities and Environmental
• Waste Management

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Two issues
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First Issue16 National Career Clusters

• Agriculture, Food and Natural Resources
• Architecture Construction
• Arts, A/V Technology and Communications
• Business, Management and Administration
• Education Training
• Finance
• Government Public Administration
• Health Science
• Hospitality Tourism
• Human Services
• Information Technology
• Law, Public Safety Security
• Manufacturing
• Marketing, Sales Service
• Science, Technology, Engineering Mathematics
• Transportation, Distribution Logistics

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Best?a program

• whose objectives are to provide maximum labor
  market flexibility by teaching job-entry skills
  in a variety of occupations
• that stresses depth by teaching as many
  increasingly higher level skills in a single
  occupation as possible

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Second IssueAcademic Content
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Dilemma

• Connection between what is taught and how it will
  be used
• Need to relate academic concepts to workplace
• Lack of motivation and interest in content areas

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Occupational AnalysisAssumptions

• Expert workers are the best source for task
  analysis.
• Any occupation can be effectively described in
  terms of DUTIES, TASKS, and KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS,
  TRAITS.

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From DACUM to Delphi

• Delphi Surveys are a method for structuring a
  group communication process, so that the process
  is effective in allowing a group of individuals,
  as a whole, to deal with a complex problem."

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Delphi Validation

• A Delphi Survey is a procedure for refining the
  opinions of the DACUM Panel to validate their
  consensus position.
• Surveying a larger group of experts then is
  considered to be more reliable and is thus more
  objective.

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Two Heads Are Better Than One

• The feedback provides textual and statistical
  material to the DACUM Panel and asks them to
  reconsider their outcomes if it they are
  radically different from the larger group.

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Validity and Reliability

• The aim is to repeat this process until finally a
  certain level of consensus is reached.
• A final report, pulling the responses together,
  is then prepared.
• The curriculum is then updated to industry
  practices.

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The Final Product

• The job analysis concludes with an update to the
  LCC program goals, assessments and curriculum.

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LCC DACUMs

• Manufacturing Engineering Technologies
• Electrical
• Manufacturing Engineering Technologies (CAD/CAM)
• Mechanical Systems
• Mold Design Build
• Environmental Design Building Technologies
• Architecture
• Building Trades
• Civil Technology
• Geographic Information Systems
• Interior Design
• Visual Arts and Media Department
• Photo Imaging Technology
• Other
• The welding program is using skill standards
  developed through a partnership with a national
  welding organization.

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DACUM Process

• Low Cost Task Analysis
• Quick
• Effective Task Analysis
• Involves Actual Workers

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Duties--CADD
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Each Duty Has Tasks
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Each Task Has Knowledge and Skills
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DUTY GROUP
TASK ANALYSIS
TASK
KNOWLEDGE AND SKILLS
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DUTY AREAS WEIGHTED ON IMPORTANCE
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DACUM TASK RATINGS
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I INTRODUCE TOPIC X MASTERY OF
TOPIC APPLY APPLICATION AFTER MASTERY
GAP ANALYSIS
APPLY
APPLY
IDENTIFY CURRICULUM GAPS
APPLY
APPLY
APPLY
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APPLY
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Modules for CADD 100Basic Mechanical Drafting
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Course ObjectivesCADD 100-Basic Mechanical
Drafting

• Module 1
• A. Identify function and proper use of common
  drafting instruments
• B. Use Gothic lettering to create upper,
  lower, and numerals using vertical and inclined
• C. Identify principles of orthographic and
  isometric sketching
• D. Sketch orthographic views from an isometric
  drawing
• E. Sketch isometric views from orthographic
  view
• Module 2
• F. Identify principles of primary auxiliary
  views using fold line and reference plane method
• G. Sketch primary auxiliary views
• H. Identify types of section views
• I. Sketch selected section views
• J. Identify type and placement of basic
  dimensions
• K. Annotate and dimension selected sketched
  drawings (height, width, depth)
• Module 3
• L. Demonstrate introductory knowledge of
  AutoCAD computer graphics
• M. Draw simple lines and circles using AutoCAD

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Module ObjectivesModule 1CADD 100

• Module 1Drafting Instruments, Lettering and
  Sketching
• Course Objective A. Identify function and
  proper use of common drafting instruments
• 1 Identify common drawing media (pencils, papers
  and films)
• 2 Identify common drawing equipment (drafting
  machine, triangles, protractors, instrument set,
  compass, divider)
• 3 Identify types of lines (horizontal, vertical,
  irregular curves, erasing lines)
• 4 Identify scales for measuring lengths and sizes
  (architects' scale, engineers' scale, English
  system of units, Metric systems of units, metric
  scales, metric symbols, scale conversions)
• 5 Identify presentation of drawings (A through E)
• B. Use Gothic lettering to create upper,
  lower, and numerals using vertical and inclined
• 6 Identify lettering tools
• 7 Identify the use guidelines for lettering
• 8 Identify the use of Gothic lettering
• 9 Draw the alphabet and numerals using Gothic
  lettering, vertical, uppercase letters and using
  guidelines
• 10 Draw the alphabet and numerals using Gothic
  lettering, inclined uppercase letters and using
  guidelines
• C. Identify principles of orthographic and
  isometric sketching
• 11 Describe shapes and sketching techniques
• 12 Sketch six view, three-view

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Write Items Linked to Tasks
A1. Worm gear bearings can be checked quickly
by A. checking the squirrel case
rotor B. trying to move the shaft at right
angles to the bearing C. checking the
centrifugal switch points D. checking the
stator
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Distracter Analysis
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Psychomotor Testing

• Module 1 Drafting Instrument, Lettering and
  Sketching
• Draw the alphabet and numerals using Gothic
  lettering, vertical, uppercase letters and using
  guidelines
• Draw the alphabet and numerals using Gothic
  lettering, inclined uppercase letters and using
  guidelines
• Sketch selected problems
• Sketch 3 orthographic views from an isometric

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Quote of the Day

• "The road to success is always under
  construction. Lily Tomlin