Criterion 1: Helping
Students Learn
MINUTES
APRIL 14, 2005
MEMBERS PRESENT:
Truman Bashore, Becky Telford, Ruth Barney, Maggie Myers, and Iden Smith
The Team reviewed
the Student Evaluation of Instruction form that Becky Telford and Helen
Wilcox had prepared. The following changes were suggested:
- Make the form
more readable by highlighting every other item.
- Change the
rating scale from 1 – 5 to A – E scale since the Scantron forms that we
use have A – E.
- Change Item 8
to read “Completed all of the material indicated on the syllabus.
- The end of Item
22 was cut off on the form provided to the Team.
- Ruth Barney
will have her capstone course students review the form and provide
feedback.
The Team decided
to wait until the next meeting to discuss possible recommendations that
the Team would include in its final report.
The Team discussed
the continuation of the Team’s project after the three-year cycle ends.
Dr. Salisbury has indicated that all of the project’s activities must
continue into the future.
- Using the
College’s dashboard will apparently not be an adequate replacement for
the success data that we have been collecting since it will not sort the
courses by instructional method. Becky Telford has agreed to continue
providing the success rate comparisons to the deans, the Vice-President
of Education, and the College President.
- It was
suggested that the faculty support office might take over the job of
sending postcards to students enrolled in online courses. The chair will
discuss this with the Vice-President of Education.
Becky Telford will
give the chair the success rate data for spring by early June. The chair
must submit a final report to Dr. Salisbury by mid July.
