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Placement Testing Services
Increase access to and revise administration of placement testsDue Date: 8/97
| Task |
By Whom |
By When
Start--End Dates |
Resources
Required |
Establish Team
Establish a Placement Testing Services Team (PTST) that will:
develop a college policy and philosophy on placement testing
guide the development of related projects, training and information dissemination.
|
Linda Fossen,
Phyllis Geyer |
11/96 - 12/96 |
|
Establish college policy and philosophy.
Draft a college policy and philosophy on testing. |
Dan Hodges,
John Winquist,
Rich Freund,
Carol Lynn Morse,
PTST |
12/96 - 1/97 |
|
| Review draft and make revisions as necessary. |
PTST,
Counseling Dept. staff |
12/96 - 1/97 |
|
| Incorporate revisions in draft. |
Dan Hodges,
John Winquist,
Carol Lynn Morse |
1/97 - 1/97 |
|
| Review final draft. |
Affected departments |
1/97 - 2/97 |
|
| Incorporate revisions in final draft. |
Dan Hodges,
John Winquist,
Rich Freund,
Carol Lynn Morse,
PTST |
2/97 - 3/97 |
|
| Present for Executive Leadership Team endorsement. |
Linda Fossen
selected member of PTST |
3/97 - 4/97 |
|
| Disseminate endorsed policy college-wide. |
PTST |
4/97 - 5/ 97 |
|
| Task |
By Whom |
By When
Start--End Dates |
Resources
Required |
Establish high-risk student program.
Explore criteria for identifying high-risk students. |
PTST,
Dan Hodges,
Carolyn Litty,
Carol Lynn Morse,
Craig Taylor |
12/96 - 2/97 |
|
| Develop draft criteria for identifying at-risk students. |
Dan Hodges,
Carol Lynn Morse |
12/96 - 2/97 |
|
| Draft reviewed to determine if it adequately reflects criteria and the feasibility of using various criteria. |
Counseling Dept. staff,
Affected departments
PTST |
2/97 - 3/97 |
|
| Finalize criteria for identifying at-risk students and present to Executive Leadership Team. |
Linda Fossen,
selected member of PTST |
3/97 - 4/97 |
|
| Disseminate criteria for identifying at-risk students college-wide. |
PTST |
3/97 - 4/97 |
|
| Develop survey to determine what kind of services at-risk students would consider helpful. |
PTST,
Rich Freund,
Dan Hodges,
Carol Lynn Morse,
Craig Taylor |
3/97 - 3/97 |
|
| Administer survey to identified students. |
PTST,
contracted assistants |
3/97 - 4/97 |
|
| Review and summarize survey data. |
Dan Hodges,
Carol Lynn Morse |
3/97 - 4/97 |
|
| Conduct staff and faculty focus groups to review students input and generate ideas for services. |
PTST,
Phyllis Geyer,
Dan Hodges,
Carolyn Litty,
Carol Lynn Morse,
John Winquist |
4/97 - 4/97 |
|
| Summarize focus group information for PTST review. |
Dan Hodges,
Carol Lynn Morse,
PTST |
4/97 - 5/97 |
|
| Review data and develop recommendations for short- and long-term action. |
PTST |
4/97 - 5/97 |
|
| Task |
By Whom |
By When
Start--End Dates |
Resources
Required |
| Review report and make additional recommendations |
Counseling Dept. staff,
Affected Departments,
Executive Leadership Team |
6/97 - 10/97 |
|
Network with related services.
Network with new student information personnel regarding feasibility of combining new student orientation sessions with placement testing. |
Dan Hodges,
Phyllis Geyer,
Ginger Yamamoto
|
3/97 - 4/97 |
|
| Network with Annual Advising team regarding the role of placement testing in Annual advising. |
Dan Hodges,
Mason Davis,
John Winquist |
TBA |
|
Develop testing information and training program.
Develop Placement testing information program and training sessions to interested services to students providers. |
Dan Hodges,
Carol Lynn Morse,
PTST |
3/97 - 4/97 |
|
| Pilot placement testing information training sessions. |
PTST |
5/97 - 6/97 |
|
| Evaluate and revise placement testing information training sessions. |
PTST |
5/97 - 6/97 |
|
| Investigate feasibility of offering placement testing at high schools, particularly those designated as community learning centers. |
PTST,
Dan Hodges |
5/97 - 6/97 |
|
Evaluate feasibility of computerized testing.
Assemble information on computerized testing and review feasibility, particularly in terms of institutional goals, budget, space, and programs available. |
Dan Hodges,
PTST |
12/96 - 2/97 |
|
| Network with Bond Committee regarding necessary space and equipment. |
Dan Hodges,
Linda DeWitt,
Phyllis Geyer |
11/96 - 1/97 |
|
| Develop written proposal for computerized testing, including plan. |
Dan Hodges,
John Winquist,
Carol Lynn Morse |
1/97 - 2/97 |
|
| Review proposal and plan. |
Counseling Dept.,
Affected Depts |
3/97 - 4/97 |
|
| Revise proposal and plan, incorporating feedback. |
Dan Hodges,
John Winquist,
Carol Lynn Morse
|
4/97 - 4/97 |
|
| Endorse, if deemed feasible, the proposal and plan. |
Executive Leadership Team |
5/97 - 5/97 |
|
| Task |
By Whom |
By When
Start--End Dates |
Resources
Required |
| Examine the feasibility of providing self-administered tests and how they would be used. |
Dan Hodges,
PTST |
1/97 - 5/97 |
|
| Develop implementation plan for computerized testing. |
Dan Hodges,
PTST |
9/97 - 6/98 |
|
Provide easily available testing and support.
Draft survey and coordinate with advising survey, to assess need for: extended placement testing hours, services to outreach centers, increased communication about placement testing requirements, procedures, waivers, and hold-registering sequence. |
PTST,
Dan Hodges,
Carol Lynn Morse |
1/97 - 2/97 |
|
| Administer survey. |
Dan Hodges,
Carol Lynn Morse |
2/97 - 3/97 |
|
| Summarize survey results. |
Dan Hodges,
Carol Lynn Morse |
3/97 - 4/97 |
|
| Present survey results to PTST and Executive Leadership Team. |
Dan Hodges,
Carol Lynn Morse |
3/97 - 4/97 |
|
| Disseminate survey results college-wide. |
Phyllis Geyer |
4/97 - 5/97 |
|
| Develop placement testing services in concert with the Students First! Downtown Center site. |
Dan Hodges,
Debra Lamb |
TBA |
|
| Place Study Guides on the web. |
Dan Hodges |
5/97 - 8/97 |
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