SACS Reaffirmation
| Objective | Faculty Excellence Standard | |
| Increase activity by Kinesiology faculty in professional presentations, publications, and service. Associated Goals: Faculty Excellence |
| Indicator | Scholarship Department chair will review portfolios and tabulate the number of scholarly publications and conference presentations made by Kinesiology pedagogy faculty. |
| Criteria | Scholarly Productivity 100% of Kinesiology full-time tenured-track faculty will have a minimum of one publication (article, book, book chapter), and one professional presentation (state and/or national). |
| Finding | Scholarly Productivity Target met. All Kinesiology faculty had at least one publication and one professional presentation. The department reported a total of 44 professional presentations for academic year 2007-2008. |
| Indicator | Service Department Chair will review portfolios and assess service activities for kinesiology pedagogy faculty. |
| Criteria | Service 80% of Kinesiology full-time tenured track faculty will be engaged in service activities at two or more of these areas: department, college, university, and professional (state and/or national). |
| Finding | Service 100% the Kinesiology faculty had more than two service assignments for the 2007-2008 academic year. |
| Action | Scholarly Productivity Continue to encourage and seek support for faculty who provide external scholarship productivity. |
| Objective | EC-12 Physical Education Examination | |
| Pre-service teachers will pass the EC-12 Physical education content examination. Associated Goals: Quality And Effectiveness |
| Indicator | EC-12 Scores Collect and analyze scores of EC-12 Physical Education Content Examination. |
| Criteria | Student Performance 80% of the Pre-service teachers will pass the EC-12 Physical Education content exam. |
| Finding | Student Performance During the 2007-2008 academic year, twenty seven students took the EC-12 Physical Education content exam. Twenty- six of twenty-seven passed (96.3%) |
| Indicator | Practice Exam Description Pre-service teachers scheduled to take the EC-12 Physical Education. Exam will take a department developed content practice exam |
| Criteria | Department Scores Pre-service teachers will score 70% or higher on the department developed content practice exam. |
| Finding | Department Exam Of the twenty seven pre-service teachers taking the department practice exam, all scored higher than 70% |
| Indicator | Review Sessions Kinesiology pedagogy faculty will conduct review sessions for pre-service teachers scheduled to take the EC-12 Physical Education content exam. |
| Criteria | Review Sessions Kinesiology pedagogy faculty will conduct at least four review sessions for Pre-service teachers scheduled to take the EC-12 P.E. content exam. |
| Finding | Review Sessions Four review sessions for Pre-service teachers were provided by Kinesiology pedagogy faculty during the 2007-2008 academic year. |
| Action | Department Exam Continue to support and provide department developed practice exam. |
| Action | Review Sessions Use data to inform BS Teacher Certification curriculum planning process and decisions regarding program remediation plans should there be a need. |
| Action | Student Performance Continue to provide academic support and resources to promote student success on the EC-12 P.E. content exam. |