Initial Publication Date: August 13, 2013

2013 Planning for May Module Team Meetings

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Agenda for May 13 Call

  • review session content by each session leader
  • decide on parallel sessions based on BARSTL results
  • review what it means to finish document (this will necessitate a discussion of student materials)
  • review lessons learned from observation study (David shared a relevant doc for this)
  • revisit old team agenda - leveraging resources, student materials (what assessment data will be received, example case study, and student materials)
  • review contract language
  • update on assessment team plan
Needed
  • example of what assessment data will be received
  • participant checklist page that sends them to various types of data and reminds about assessment
  • all module feedback on reporting page in module including observation summary
  • reporting page for plan including instructions on addressing or dismissing feedback. Think through the mechanics of how the tell us whether they have addressed or why they have dismissed
  • what it means to finish checklist
  • Example case study

April 29

Agenda:

  • Are the goals on the pages correct and ready to be published.
  • Do the programs meet their stated goals?
  • Who is responsible for developing each whole group session further?
  • How/where/when you will provide the detailed agenda's for your groups individual time.
  • Is it a good idea to meet in the evening every day for a week?


Notes from April 3

Goals for continuing teams:

  • time talk in teams
  • speed-dating (Wednesday)
  • what it means to finish (Wed
    • student material
    • Faculty scaffolding
  • assessment results and one-on-one with consultants (thursday)
  • evaluation results (pre/post on project and team scale)
  • Developing a plan

David McConnell draft agenda (Acrobat (PDF) 71kB Apr3 13)

Notes from February 21 Planning meeting

Before meeting:

  • webinar to introduce InTeGrate, materials development goals, rubric and high level of process
Meeting:
  • new teams arrive on Sunday
  • assessment team arrives Monday noon
  • assessment consulting tuesday PM- Wednesday AM-- this is competing with their ability to move forward with data analysis needed for end of week; also there aren't enough of them to go around so we need to be careful with scheduling consulting appointments
  • Tuesday noon - old teams arrive
  • Tuesday 4:00 - old team led plenary with advice to new teams followed by dinner
  • Wed 10:00 - speed dating -- new team members have a chance to talk to several old team members
  • Wed 12:00 new teams depart
  • Thursday PM -- assessment team done?
  • Friday 12:00 - old teams depart
Goals:
  • new teams: leave with plan for completion of module/course including timeline, communication plan, and who is responsible for what; have experience with CMS;have had first substantive feedback with assessment consultant and worked with webteam member.
  • old teams: leave with approved plan for 'finishing' module including checklist and responsibilities.
  • assessment team: complete data analysis for existing data and consult with old teams; analyze gle data and make decisions on any needed changes in GLE.; have plan for working with essay data
Next steps:
  • identify new teams, assign to assessment consultants, schedule consulting slots
  • understand what final acceptance looks like and create general checklist
  • plan opening webinar
  • create agendas for 5 individual meetings
  • check with evaluation about their needs.

Notes from David M:

Before meeting

  • Submit a combined proposal
  • Have them think about the structure of what they're going to do
  • Encourage as much pre-meeting team work as possible
  • Thinking about learning goals and assessments
  • Surveys
  • Review 2012 Module (climate of change)
  • Interviews
    • Experience
    • Familiarity with research-based teaching (maybe part of a pre-workshop webinar?)
  • Other items to help teams get to know each other
  • Possible webinars:
    • InTeGrate grand challenges
      • InTeGrate goals
    • Best practices: research-based/active teaching methods/backward design/assessment (or maybe at wksp)

At workshop

  • Overview of the assessment rubric
  • Working with the CMS
    • Build some component of the module
    • 2012 teams could give advice of best practices, challenges
  • Time to work with assessment liaison
  • What is your module/course look like
    • What are the components?
    • How will you communicate as a group?
      • Establish specific methods of communicating
      • Assign a team leader to organize these meetings
    • Identify/assign team member responsible for particular parts of the project
    • Mapping out specific parts of the curriculum
      • They need to deal with the rubric with respect to their proposed modules

2012 Teams (david and anne)

  • 4:00 on Tuesday: Plenary session
    • lesson learned/best practices w/r/t:
      • CMS
      • Assessments
      • Content
      • Team work/communication
    • What is a successful module?
  • 10:00 Wednesday morning: speed dating
    • Any lingering questions for 2012 teams
  • Time for interviews with the external evaluators (Thurs/Fri)

David S

*Need to recruit new assessment members...

Before:

  • Assessment data

    • Analyzed (before and during meeting)
      • Look at GLE and decide what to do with questions that need to be changed
    • Summarized for groups (what was learned from analysis)
  • 2012 teams reflect on their own data

During:

Tuesday: Assessment group will likely need time alone to:

  • Revise GLE as needed (based on pre-meeting analysis)- finish before end of meeting
  • Look at any last min assessments

Wednesday morning: New Teams (on the order of 11-13 new teams - 3-5 for Anne, 4 for David M, 4 for David G)

  • By this point in the schedule, teams should have draft learning objectives and ideas of how to assess these objectives- this will lead to a productive conversation with the assessment consultants
  • How will we introduce new members to assessment consultants?
    • Team members could read through the rubric pre-meeting
    • Discuss how assessments will be collected and analyzed in pre-meeting webinar
  • Time with assessment consultants- small groups (2 hours)
    • Get to know
    • Learn about the assessment process
  • Presentation of the data collection stream (mechanics)- whole group session

For 2012 teams:

  • 2012 teams reflect on their own data
    • Think about what they know about what worked
  • They need to know what action items are necessary to complete modules
    • We need a general checklist, then groups would need to plan a more specific list
      • case studies
      • dealing with pieces of curriculum that don't work
      • finishing student materials
    • Teams need to produce a plan and have plan accepted before they leave their meeting
      • specific team member assignments of who will work on pieces
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