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<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" color="#1f497d" face="Calibri"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">Is there an updated website for the CAT? The tntech.edu website has not worked on my computer since this CAT conversation
started.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" color="#1f497d" face="Calibri"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">Thanks!<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" color="#1f497d" face="Adobe Arabic"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Adobe Arabic";color:#1F497D">Brian R. Lashley, Ph.D.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" color="#1f497d" face="Adobe Arabic"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Adobe Arabic";color:#1F497D">Assistant Director of Inst. Res.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" color="#1f497d" face="Adobe Arabic"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Adobe Arabic";color:#1F497D">860-465-5596<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><b><font size="2" face="Calibri"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;font-weight:bold">From:</span></font></b><font size="2" face="Calibri"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">
coplac-ir-bounces@lists.onenet.net [mailto:coplac-ir-bounces@lists.onenet.net] <b>
<span style="font-weight:bold">On Behalf Of </span></b>Turrentine, Cathy<br>
<b><span style="font-weight:bold">Sent:</span></b> Friday, August 19, 2016 10:24 AM<br>
<b><span style="font-weight:bold">To:</span></b> Hui-Min Wen <hwen@ncf.edu><br>
<b><span style="font-weight:bold">Cc:</span></b> Schmidl-Gagne, Kimberly <kgagne@keene.edu>; Smeaton, George <George.Smeaton@keene.edu>; COPLAC-IR@lists.onenet.net; Dolenc, Patrick <pdolenc@keene.edu><br>
<b><span style="font-weight:bold">Subject:</span></b> Re: [COPLAC-IR] a small heads-up<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><font size="2" color="#1f497d" face="Calibri"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">Thanks for the question. We have used CAT in a selection of courses from all academic schools
and at all levels.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><font size="2" color="#1f497d" face="Calibri"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><font size="2" color="#1f497d" face="Calibri"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">All of the questions are real-world scenarios. (Do you accept this advertising claim? Is
this interpretation of a simple graph the only reasonable explanation? Is this “expert” opinion logical? What information do you need to make a complex decision?) Some of the questions look like our first-year quantitative literacy curriculum. They are a very
good natural fit for sciences, social sciences, and many of our professional studies programs. The question content does not come directly from arts or humanities, but I have used it in some of those classes and so far I haven’t seen any reason that it doesn’t
work.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><font size="2" color="#1f497d" face="Calibri"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><font size="2" color="#1f497d" face="Calibri"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">One of the things I like most about CAT is that, once faculty have used it, they can be
trained to overlay their own course content on the CAT question format, creating CAT Apps for their own courses. There is a growing national bank of CAT Apps, available online. Several Keene State faculty built their own CAT Apps this summer in disciplines
across campus. Faculty who write CAT Apps can validate them with pre/posttests of the CAT and then, if the data align properly, the faculty member can legitimately use the CAT App (with philosophy content, or history, or women’s studies) to measure the very
same critical thinking skills going forward.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><font size="2" color="#1f497d" face="Garamond"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif;color:#1F497D">Cathryn Turrentine, Ph.D.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><font size="2" color="#1f497d" face="Garamond"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif;color:#1F497D">Keene State College<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><font size="2" color="#1f497d" face="Garamond"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif;color:#1F497D">229 Main St.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><font size="2" color="#1f497d" face="Garamond"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif;color:#1F497D">Keene, NH 03435-1506<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><font size="2" color="#1f497d" face="Garamond"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif;color:#1F497D">603-358-2117<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><b><i><font size="3" color="#44546a" face="Garamond"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif;color:#44546A;font-weight:bold;font-style:italic">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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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><b><font size="2" face="Calibri"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;font-weight:bold">From:</span></font></b><font size="2" face="Calibri"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">
Hui-Min Wen [mailto:hwen@ncf.edu] <br>
<b><span style="font-weight:bold">Sent:</span></b> Friday, August 19, 2016 10:07 AM<br>
<b><span style="font-weight:bold">To:</span></b> Turrentine, Cathy <cturrentine@keene.edu><br>
<b><span style="font-weight:bold">Cc:</span></b> COPLAC-IR@lists.onenet.net; Schmidl-Gagne, Kimberly <kgagne@keene.edu>; Smeaton, George <George.Smeaton@keene.edu>; Dolenc, Patrick <pdolenc@keene.edu><br>
<b><span style="font-weight:bold">Subject:</span></b> Re: [COPLAC-IR] a small heads-up<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Thank you for the heads-up. Is this critical thinking test more appropriate for science students? Do you assess humanities students with this
test?<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">On Fri, Aug 19, 2016 at 9:50 AM, Turrentine, Cathy <<a href="mailto:cturrentine@keene.edu" target="_blank">cturrentine@keene.edu</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<font size="2" color="#1f497d" face="Calibri"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">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.</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<font size="2" color="#1f497d" face="Calibri"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">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.</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<font size="2" color="#1f497d" face="Calibri"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">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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<font size="2" color="#1f497d" face="Calibri"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">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: <a href="https://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3a%2f%2fwww.tntech.edu%2fcat&data=01%7c01%7clashleyb%40easternct.edu%7ccfa4a0649b4f4be674aa08d3c83cbb56%7c00bc4ae8576c45e3949d4f129d8b670a%7c0&sdata=i0r1Tpz5g82CheNhaI7no5zL38RsJep70XD4KRrn24o%3d" target="_blank">
https://www.tntech.edu/cat</a>. 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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<font size="4" color="#1f497d" face="Lucida Handwriting"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Handwriting";color:#1F497D">Cathy</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<font size="2" color="#1f497d" face="Garamond"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif;color:#1F497D">Cathryn Turrentine, Ph.D.</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<font size="2" color="#1f497d" face="Garamond"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif;color:#1F497D">Director of Institutional Research and Assessment</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<font size="2" color="#1f497d" face="Garamond"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif;color:#1F497D">Keene State College</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<font size="2" color="#1f497d" face="Garamond"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif;color:#1F497D">Hale Building, 3rd Floor</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<b><i><font size="3" color="#44546a" face="Garamond"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif;color:#44546A;font-weight:bold;font-style:italic">The Office of Institutional Research and Assessment provides evidence to inform decision-making
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<p style="margin-left:.5in;background:white"><font size="3" color="black" face="Cambria"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif;color:black">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.</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p style="margin-left:.5in;background:white"><font size="3" color="black" face="Cambria"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif;color:black">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. <span style="background:white">Would your campus be interested in participating in this project?</span> If so, can you provide me with contact information for the person (or people) that I should communicate
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<p style="margin-left:.5in;background:white"><font size="3" color="black" face="Cambria"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Cambria",serif;color:black">Thank you for you assistance with this, I hope that your campus decides to join this exciting project.</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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