Program Assessment Form for Master of Instructional Improvement Degree 2003-2004.

Degree Producing Academic Unit__Master of Instructional Improvement______ Planning Cycle___4______________ Page 1___ of 2____

 

Educational Objectives                           Measures to be Used/Criteria                           Actual Results               Use of Results for Improvement

(Student Outcomes)                                        for Success                                               Obtained                                                                                                     

* 3-5 major ones for each degree producing           How will you measure the outcome?                              When you measured, (observed,                                                                                         What impact did this have on the unit

unit recommended                                                       Multiple measures may be used.  At what                     surveyed, etc.) what did you find?                                                                                        And how will you use this for

                                                                                        degree, do you expect these outcomes to be                                                                                                                                                                  improvement? This should lead

                                                                                        present?                                                                                                                                                                                                                                 Directly to next year's plan.

 

Graduates will be able to develop

an appropriate Individual Education Plan for a student with mental retardation or learning disabilities given appropriate data for one child.

The IEP must conform to legal and best-practice provisions of the Arkansas Procedural Requirements  and Program Standards for Special Education. 

One or more classroom tests (in ELED6823)  of a constructed-response format.  Goals, objectives, materials, and accommodations should be appropriate for at least 80 % of the student’s characteristics.

100% of Year-2004 candidates  completed this successfully as demonstrated by course rubrics in ELED6823.   They incidentally demonstrated similar competencies in the ELED6803 unit and the ELED5333 reading prescription. 

 

 

Continue with constructed-response IEP format for testing for ELED6823. 

Graduates will be able to teach expository, demonstration, inquiry, and individualized lessons with appropriate accommodations for students with retardation in micro-teaching sessions.   (ELED6803 course activity).

Four microteaches in the college classroom with authentic and Flanders Interaction Analysis System data that clearly show adaptations for reduced rates of learning, emphasis on salient characteristics of  the content, insuring success for MR students, accepted lesson design, and positive reinforcement. 

Previously, we attempted to get this information from four "teaches" in 6803.  When the unit was offered as a choice instead of "teaches"  in Summer II 2004 and Fall 2004, students reported the unit to be more useful and more durable.  The unit still allowed verification of the four teaching styles.

 

100% of students reached this objective, but lower-yet-passing scores were still seen in the planning for effective repetition and for maintaining student attention

 

More instructional time will be spent assisting students in realizing the importance of repetition and "dwelling" on a topic while MRs and LDs acquire the key concepts.  This time will be spent in ELED5333, ELED6803, ELED6823.

 

Rubrics have also been modified to address desired competencies more directly and to match standards.

Graduates will be able to write a diagnostic plan for a student with a reading difficulty, given data for that child.

 

 

 

Constructed-response diagnostic plan,  written in  a classroom testing situation, which meets criteria.

 

(Data to be collected in 2003-2004)

Data were collected.  100% of candidates while in ELED5333/6323 were able to write this diagnostic plan, given data on a hypothetical child.

Continue collecting data in ELED5333/6323 since this was the first cycle.

Graduates will be able to construct a curriculum unit for at least two weeks of classroom instruction that includes provisions for needs assessments, goals, objectives, selection of content, organization of content, selection and organization of learning experiences, pilot testing, and evaluation.

Units which contain those elements in adequate amounts.

 

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Began collecting data from units written in ELED6803 since data from EDFD6313 were not always available.  Supporting courses included EDFD6063, EDFD6053,  ELED5333, and ELED6323.

100% of units from the seven candidates of this year met rubric criteria.  All units included a "typical" regular education structure plus  moderate to substantial accommodations and adaptations for students with MR and LD.

Continue with the data collection from ELED6803 as a data point.  Emphasize curriculum planning in other courses such as EDFD6053, ELEd5333, ELED6323, and EDFD6063, as a team approach.

Graduates will demonstrate ability to select, conduct, and finalize an action study on a topic of relevance  given some faculty assistance.

Action research paper developed in EDFD6993 and reviewed by a minimum of two faculty.  Advisee data indicate possibly 28 students are in the pipeline for this year or soon.

 

I plan to develop a rubric for the action research project which will address at least Pathwise Standards.

100% pass rate for this year's graduates, using the new rubric.

 

Weakest area, according to rubric data, was in connecting "results" (chapter/section 4) back to the literature (chapter 2)  during the discussion and recommendations (chapter 5). 

Structural aspects of the research report will be given greater emphasis in EDFD6003 and EDFD6993 this year.

 

Rubric has already been revised to emphasize this aspect to candidates and to match Pathwise and Local Diversity standards.

 

 

Sid T.  Womack  September 23, 2004