Institutional Effectiveness & Assessment:Quality Enhancement Plan (QEP)
Pursue Truth: Read Responsibly. Think Critically., is intended to address information fluency by increasing students' ability to read critically. Information fluency is the ability to interpret, communicate, problem-solve, and create across a variety of situations in a media-rich, data-driven, global information ecosystem. Since critical reading is an essential vehicle for evaluating information in various formats, solving problems, and creatively integrating knowledge into a wide range of contexts to achieve information fluency, faculty workshops and a Community of Practice will be launched to cultivate these critical reading abilities in students.
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To ensure that institutions are dedicated to the advancement, innovation, and quality of academic excellence in higher education, the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges (SACSCOC) requires institutions at reaffirmation to develop a QEP.
The QEP Must
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Focus on a specific topic
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Be formed and endorsed by the campus community
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Emerges from Institutional Assessment
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Have clear goals for student learning outcomes
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Assessed for its effectiveness and efficiency
QEP Development Process
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Gather data from faculty, staff, students, alumni, and employers
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Collaborate with Institutional Effectiveness and Assessment
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Compile the data and write a QEP report to submit for evaluation
Resources
QEP Plan's Accomplishments
Highlights and accomplishments from previous QEP plan.
Faculty Workshops
Apply by April 15, 2023 for May pilot workshops.
2023 Subcommittee Charge & Membership
QEP Committee Members help with the research and development of a new Quality Enhancement Plan student learning initiative as part of the SACSCOC accreditation and reaffirmation process. Members of the committee include representatives from each of the six colleges as well as the university libraries.
Key:
- * Member of the Quality Enhancement Plan (QEP) Team
- * Quality Enhancement Plan (QEP) Leads
- *** Community of Practice (CoP) indicates a collaborative community to enhance skills for teaching Information Fluency and Critical Reading.
More 2023 QEP Information
Leadership & Guidance Team
Assists Committee Members to look at the impact of the previous QEP on teaching and learning at Old Dominion University, serve as ambassadors for the QEP process to campus constituents, help solicit potential QEP topics from colleagues in their colleges/units, identify a new topic and design an implementation plan.
QEP Faculty Lead
Yvette E. Pearson, PhD
"I am grateful for the opportunity to serve as the faculty lead for this grassroots initiative to develop Old Dominion University's (ODU) next QEP. As someone who benefited from ODU's first successful QEP, Improving Disciplinary Writing, I am excited about augmenting our ability to collectively enhance students' learning experiences. I look forward to exploring the many possible ways of addressing students' most urgent learning needs with colleagues across the university and to fostering university-wide collaboration as we develop and implement our QEP for 2023."
QEP Director
Remica L. Bingham-Risher, MFA
"I'm excited to see how we can continue to shape and shift student learning. I'm personally interested in reflection as a means of processing experiences, as I've seen just how asking others to reflect on their learning can help them evaluate and apply what they've experienced. I've worked with faculty who've taken part in the QEP: Improving Disciplinary Writing Workshops and Action Projects to help design assignments that prepare students for life beyond ODU, that ask them to imagine how what they've learned in their courses will be useful to them well beyond their time with us. I'm excited and hopeful that our next QEP will continue to use the faculty development model that's been so successful and broaden the scope of our student learning endeavors. We're building from the ground up, so I look forward to what our campus community will develop together."