[COPLAC-IR] a small heads-up

[Hui-Min Wen]

Cathy:

Thank you for the heads-up.  Is this critical thinking test more
appropriate for science students?  Do you assess humanities students with
this test?

Hui-Min


On Fri, Aug 19, 2016 at 9:50 AM, Turrentine, Cathy <cturrentine at keene.edu>
wrote:

> Colleagues –
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> I am writing with a small (and positive!) heads-up for you. You may soon
> receive a call or email from your president, chancellor, or provost, and I
> want you to have some background information about it.
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> If they attended the COPLAC meeting in June, they heard a presentation
> about the Critical thinking Assessment Test (CAT), and received a follow-up
> email message today from my Keene State faculty colleague Dr. Patrick
> Dolenc (see below). The presentation and email message offer an opportunity
> for COPLAC schools to learn about CAT together by administering it to a
> small group on each campus and sending teams to a scoring workshop next
> summer. Besides introducing your own campus to CAT, this project would
> begin to establish some baseline data about critical thinking skills of
> students in public liberal arts colleges nationally, data that could be
> valuable to all of us.
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> So you may soon receive a call or email from someone further up the
> organization chart, asking whether you can take this on this year. Please
> consider saying yes. For Keene State College, CAT has been a wonderful tool
> for assessment, faculty development, and improvement of teaching and
> learning around critical thinking skills. I am happy to recommend it.
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> Attached is the brief summary about CAT that Patrick handed out at the
> COPLAC conference. If you want more information you can find it here:
> https://www.tntech.edu/cat.  And if your institution decides to
> participate in this opportunity and you want to discuss how it works for
> us, feel free to give me a call.
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> Cathy
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> **************************************************
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> Cathryn Turrentine, Ph.D.
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> Director of Institutional Research and Assessment
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> Keene State College
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> Hale Building, 3rd Floor
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> 229 Main St.
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> Keene, NH 03435-1506
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> 603-358-2117
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> *The Office of Institutional Research and Assessment provides evidence to
> inform decision-making and leads the College’s efforts to assess student
> learning. *
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> As you may recall, when we were in Cedar City (Utah) in late June I
> announced an opportunity to explore the Critical thinking Assessment Test
> (CAT) across COPLAC institutions in the spring 2017 semester with a
> collaborative meeting next summer to score the tests and discuss the
> results.
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> As the fall semester approaches, I am building a distribution list of the
> appropriate people on the campuses that have decided to join this pilot.  Would
> your campus be interested in participating in this project? If so, can
> you provide me with contact information for the person (or people) that I
> should communicate with as the project unfolds?
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> Thank you for you assistance with this, I hope that your campus decides to
> join this exciting project.
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>
> Patrick Dolenc
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> Professor of Economics
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> Keene State College
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-- 

Hui-Min Wen, Ph.D.

NCF Data Administrator

Director, Institutional Research & Assessment

*New College of Florida*

5800 Bay Shore Road

Sarasota, FL 34243-2109

Tel: (941) 487-4601

Fax: (941) 487-4201

E-mail: hwen at ncf.edu
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