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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Handwriting";color:#1F497D">Cathy<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif;color:#1F497D">Cathryn Turrentine, Ph.D.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif;color:#1F497D">Director of Institutional Research and Assessment<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><i><span style="font-family:"Garamond",serif;color:#44546A">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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<b>Sent:</b> Monday, October 17, 2016 8:43 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> Turrentine, Cathy <cturrentine@keene.edu>; Hui-Min Wen <hwen@ncf.edu><br>
<b>Cc:</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>Subject:</b> RE: [COPLAC-IR] a small heads-up<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><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></p>
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<a href="mailto:coplac-ir-bounces@lists.onenet.net">coplac-ir-bounces@lists.onenet.net</a> [<a href="mailto:coplac-ir-bounces@lists.onenet.net">mailto:coplac-ir-bounces@lists.onenet.net</a>]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Turrentine, Cathy<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Friday, August 19, 2016 10:24 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> Hui-Min Wen <<a href="mailto:hwen@ncf.edu">hwen@ncf.edu</a>><br>
<b>Cc:</b> Schmidl-Gagne, Kimberly <<a href="mailto:kgagne@keene.edu">kgagne@keene.edu</a>>; Smeaton, George <<a href="mailto:George.Smeaton@keene.edu">George.Smeaton@keene.edu</a>>;
<a href="mailto:COPLAC-IR@lists.onenet.net">COPLAC-IR@lists.onenet.net</a>; Dolenc, Patrick <<a href="mailto:pdolenc@keene.edu">pdolenc@keene.edu</a>><br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [COPLAC-IR] a small heads-up<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><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></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><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></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><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></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Handwriting";color:#1F497D">Cathy<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif;color:#1F497D">**************************************************<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> Hui-Min Wen [<a href="mailto:hwen@ncf.edu">mailto:hwen@ncf.edu</a>]
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<b>Sent:</b> Friday, August 19, 2016 10:07 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> Turrentine, Cathy <<a href="mailto:cturrentine@keene.edu">cturrentine@keene.edu</a>><br>
<b>Cc:</b> <a href="mailto:COPLAC-IR@lists.onenet.net">COPLAC-IR@lists.onenet.net</a>; Schmidl-Gagne, Kimberly <<a href="mailto:kgagne@keene.edu">kgagne@keene.edu</a>>; Smeaton, George <<a href="mailto:George.Smeaton@keene.edu">George.Smeaton@keene.edu</a>>;
Dolenc, Patrick <<a href="mailto:pdolenc@keene.edu">pdolenc@keene.edu</a>><br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [COPLAC-IR] a small heads-up<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in">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></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in">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></p>
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<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><o:p></o:p></p>
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<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><o:p></o:p></p>
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<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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<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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<span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif;color:#1F497D">Keene State College</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif;color:#1F497D">Hale Building, 3rd Floor</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif;color:#1F497D">Keene, NH 03435-1506</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<b><i><span style="font-family:"Garamond",serif;color:#44546A">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 style="margin-left:.5in;background:white"><span style="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><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p style="margin-left:.5in;background:white"><span style="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 with as the project unfolds?</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p style="margin-left:.5in;background:white"><span style="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><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p style="margin-left:.5in;background:white"><span style="font-family:"Cambria",serif;color:black">Patrick Dolenc</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin-left:.5in;background:white"><span style="font-family:"Cambria",serif;color:black">Professor of Economics</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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