Quality Enhancement Plan: An UpdateNovember 16, 2006

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

Significance of the QEP Commitment

• We are under the gun with SACS. QEPs is an accreditation issue—Not 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

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

Best Practices (con’t)• Learning Style and Supplemental Instruction

Training– Workshops will be presented to CT&D 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

Pending

• Common definition of the various practices

• Data collection and analysis

• Training• Implementation

– Funding

• Evaluation

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