Assessment : 2012 - 2013 : Educational Programs :
Reading EDD
1 Goal 2 Objectives 2 Indicators 2 Criteria 2 Findings 1 Action
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GOAL: Professional Competence In Research
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Objective
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Demonstrate Professional Competence In Literacy Research
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Students will demonstrate professional competence in original research in the area of literacy.
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Indicator
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Rubric For Proposal For Dissertation
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Working as a class and under the direction of the proposal class professor and graduate faculty members within the program area, students will construct a rubric for the evaluation of their dissertation proposal. This rubric will then be used by the students and their committee to evaluate the areas of strength and weaknesses in the proposal. It will also be used to guide the student towards addressing any weaknesses.
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Initial rubric results will be evaluated to determine areas of weaknesses within proposals that need to be addressed prior to the defense. After the defense, the proposals will be evaluated to indicate increased learning on the part of the student if the areas of weakness are adequately addressed. Our goals will be that 1) 85% of students will initially have minor weaknesses on the proposal before the defense; and 2) 95% of students will have no weaknesses noted on the rubric after the defense.
This is a new objective for 2012-2013, baseline data will be gathered.
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Demonstrate Professional Competence In Literacy Research
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Initial rubric results were evaluated to determine areas of weaknesses within proposals that need to be addressed prior to the defense. The rubric was somewhat problematic. While more than 85% of students had only minor weaknesses on the proposal before the defense; and 95% of students had no weaknesses noted on the rubric after the defense, the rubric inself needs additional tweeking.
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Actions for Objective:
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Demonstrate Competence In Literacy Research
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We are going to work on tweeking the rubric.
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GOAL: Professional Competence In Research
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Objective
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Comprehensive Publication For Submission
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Students will prepare a journal-ready article to be presented to the graduate faculty within the program area. This article will be evaluated to determine the knowledge of research and competence within the literacy field demonstrated by the students.
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Indicator
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Feedback on a manuscript review form will indicate strengths and weaknesses within the submission and indicate whether the article would be accepted, accepted with revision or rejected. Based on the feedback, the student will be encouraged to revise or revise and resubmit. If the article is accepted by the committee, the student will be supported through the process of submitting the article to an outside journal for review.
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Fifty Percent Of Students Have Article Accepted For Publication
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After all the mentoring regarding producing a publication-ready article, we will claim success if 50% of students have articles accepted for publication.
As this is a new objective for 2012-2013, baseline data will be gathered this year.
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Comprehensive Publication For Submission
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10 or 11 students chose to submit the article instead of doing the traditional comprehensives. We are in the process of evaluating the articles, so only one has been submitted as of this date. We have not heard if it has been accepted or not.
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Actions for Objective:
There are no actions for this objective.
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Previous Cycle's "Plan for Continuous Improvement"
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We are pleased that our students are meeting our set criteria. We are working to make some changes in our processes to have a more effective progression for students to acquire knowledge and experience.
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Update on Previous Cycle's "Plan for Continuous Improvement"
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Plan for Continuous Improvement
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Given some issues with the rubric for evaluating the proposal we are working on it now to make changes before the next round of proposals are submitted. We do not have data yet on the submissions of articles, so changes to that objective are pending.
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