CALL FOR PARTICIPATION

PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT WORK GROUP

Purpose

To begin the work of Professional Development for the State’s Common Assessment Initiative（CAI）, the California Community Colleges Chancellor’s Office invites you to participate in Professional Development Work Group meetings for 2015. The purpose of this work group is to create a professional development program that will launch and support the implementation of the Common Assessment Initiative. We seek participation from matriculation staff, counselors/advisors, researchers, IT personnel and discipline faculty in Math, English and ESL, and IT staff. Stipends for faculty, to be determined by the Academic Senate, will be provided; travel and necessary lodging will be reimbursed for any off-site meetings.

Background：The Common Assessment Initiative

The Common Assessment Initiative contract was awarded by the Chancellor’s Office in November 2013 to a broad partnership of members to address needs, test creation, test delivery, test administration, professional development, and the creation of a data warehouse with course placement information and tools based on using multiple measures. In short, the CAI will culminate in a single, diagnostic, common assessment that may be used by all 112 of the state’s community colleges, beginning with a group of pilot colleges in fall, 2015. The coalition partners include Butte-Glen Community College District, the primary contract recipient, Cal-PASS Plus, Saddleback College, and the Academic Senate of California Community Colleges.

Roles and Responsibilities for Members

·         Assess current CCC capabilities, including specific documents in use, tests being used, technological capabilities, and specific modalities.

·         Conduct a needs assessment for professional development for all stakeholders（including faculty, IT personnel, counselors, administrators, researchers, matriculation and assessment center staff, and students）.

·         Establish the agenda for the two-day intensive professional development training.

·         Establish the agenda for six additional regional meetings hosted by the Academic Senate.

·         Create ongoing mechanisms to evaluate the effectiveness of professional development.

·         Assist in the selection or development of processes, tools, and applications required to support the implementation of the CAI.

·         Identify roadblocks and solutions to issues that could prevent a seamless user experience for faculty, staff and students.

·         Attend work group meetings for the next year.

Criteria for the Selection of Work Group Members

Nominations will be solicited from pilot colleges, CAI Steering Committee, existing content area work group members representative organizations（e.g. Academic Senate）, and key interest groups. Coordinators will compile nominations for work group membership, representing a wide range of relevant expertise in professional development, and from a diverse cross section of colleges, including rural vs. urban locales, geographic diversity across the state, diversity of student populations, as well as diversity of current assessment tests used and student information systems deployed. All faculty membership will be coordinated and appointed by the Academic Senate.

Tentatively Scheduled Metings（in Orange County）

·         Thursday, April 16, 10:00am-3:30pm

·         Wednesday, May 20, 10:00am-3:30pm

·         Monday, July 20, 10:00am-3:30pm

·         Thursday, September 17, 10:00am- Friday, September 18, 3:30pm

FACULTY

If you are a faculty member interested in serving on the work group, please copy and paste this link into a window and complete an application; be sure to specify that you are interested in serving on the

CAI Professional Development Work Group; the deadline to apply is March 25, 2015http://www.asccc.org/content/application-statewide-service

ALL OTHER STAFF

Other staff members, including counselors, matriculation staff, IT personnel, researchers and stakeholders, please use this link to submit an application to serve on the work group by March 25, 2015：

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1LHzC6rXPSGvG-8tkU4YSUZvuqAPXUfC8XhZixXW9lqw/viewform

For questions, email：CAIPD@cccnext.net