Call for Proposals
for the Strengthening Student Success: Basic Skills and Beyond
Oct 1-3, 2008
Anaheim Marriot
The conference is tailored to those engaged in the quest
for student success through the assessment of learning and collaborative
inquiry. We are seeking to share teaching strategies, institutional efforts and
assessment methods that have demonstrated success in increasing student
learning. This year’s focus is on strategies that move students through and
beyond basic skills (or pre-collegiate level). All presentations are expected to
be interactive. Presenters will be assigned to two hour sessions delivered in a
panel format. Throughout the strands listed below, we are also looking for
presentations that address several themes
that are integral to student success: examination of equity issues, professional
learning and development, and incorporating student voices in the improvement
process.
Share WHAT MAKES A DIFFERENCE and submit your proposal no later than 5PM on
March 15, 2008. To submit you on-line proposal
application go to
http://surveys.mtsac.edu/student_success_conf_2008.htm
This conference is aimed at community college faculty and
staff in student services, instruction, and planning, research and assessment –
and their partners (i.e., K-12, university). Presentations should address
assessment practices and how the results are used to improve teaching and
learning in the following ten strands:
- Mathematics
- English
-
Reading
-
ESL
- Student Services
- Career Technical Education
- SLO and Assessment
- Cal-PASS
- Successful Teaching Strategies and Learning Theory to
Advance Basic Skills
- Student Progression Beyond Basic Skills
Description of
Session:
Length: 2 hours
Presenters: Your
proposal may be combined with one or two other proposals on a common theme as
coordinated by the conference strand leaders. Presentation should:
- Model and incorporate active learning strategies,
involving the audience
- Provide clearly understandable data
- Be down-to-earth and useful to assess specific
outcomes
- Clearly show how assessment improved student learning
- Provide the audience with basic context about the
development stage you are in
- Be realistic and not over glamorize the process or
outcomes
THE PRESENTATIONS SHOULD
1. Provide clearly understandable data.
[What kind of data do you have? If you are still at an early stage, what is your
plan for obtaining data? How will you know that the assessment results will be
useful and worth the effort?]
2. Be down-to-earth and useful in any
institution, program, or classroom. [What did you learn that others may
benefit from? [We expect that both positive and negative results may be part of
your experience, we are not expecting everything to perfect, the more realistic,
and the more useful.]
3. Describe the process used to assess
specific outcomes. [If you are still at an early stage, what is your strategy
for assessment? How do you know it is practical but still capable of producing
significant results?]
4.
Clearly show how assessment improved
student learning.
5. The data and presentation should be
realistic and not over glamorize the process or outcomes. Involve the audience.
[Ask the audience how this could work in their situations. See what other
strategies they have used in this kind of situation, etc. For hands-on sessions,
which we highly value and desire, include participants so they can experience a
process or an exercise.]
6.
When possible, the presentation should include examples of sample
materials, assessment tools and student artifacts (without student names).
7. Proposals will be selected using the
Proposal Evaluation Rubric as a
guideline which incorporates the above criteria.
PRESENTER PERMISSION
Presenters retain all rights
to their materials, except we reserve the right to:
-
publish either the full text or a
summary of the presentation in our publications, such as our newsletters,
website, listserv, etc.
-
publish your name, college, title and
contact information to assist participants who may wish to contact you regarding
your presentation.
- audio/video tape the presentation for distribution on the web.
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Conference Registration (Coming Soon)
Call for Proposals
On-line Proposal Submission
Proposal Evaluation Rubric
Strands and Themes
Conference Sponsors:
Academic Senate for California Community Colleges
RP Group
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