Classroom+Assessments

Useful CAT Table

** Classroom Assessment Leads meeting RPM Institute August 2010 ** CLASSROOM ASSESSMENT LEADS [college names are links to sub-pages for specific updates around classroom assessment work at each college] //Who is using CATs fall quarter?// Answers range from the project leadership team, to all full-time faculty regardless of course, to all part-time faculty, to all faculty teaching developmental math courses. The number of times CATs will be used varies as well—from four times to once per quarter.
 * No Seattle CC  || Ben Aschenbrenner  || __baschenbrenner@sccd.ctc.edu __ ||
 * Everett CC || Peg Balachowski  || __mbalachowski@everettcc.edu __ ||
 * Spokane Falls CC  || Shawna Cosner  || __shawnac@spokanefalls.edu __ ||
 * Spokane Falls CC || Karen Joy  || __karenj@spokanefalls.edu __ ||
 * Clark College || Gail Liberman  || __gliberman@clark.edu __ ||
 * Lower Columbia College || <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">Terri Skeie  || __<span style="color: #0000d4; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">tskeie@lcc.ctc.edu __ ||
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">Highline CC  || <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">Razmehr Fardad  || __<span style="color: #0000d4; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">rfardad@highline.edu __ ||
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">Northwest Indian College || <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">TBA  || ||
 * EMERGING QUESTIONS:**

//How are CATs being introduced?// Highline, Lower Columbia, and Spokane Falls all have plans to introduce CATs to groups of faculty beyond the project team this fall. How they will be introduced including actual workshop materials, to whom, and to what effect are all important things to share.

//Use of departmental meeting time:// At least two teams (Everett and Spokane Falls) intend to work with CATs during formal department sessions—Everett during department meetings, and Spokane Falls during a meeting followed by a departmental retreat. Other teams want to know how this works out.

//Developing concept tests//: Highline (Razmehr) is working on concept tests. Ben (North) would like to see them as they are developed, and the group agreed they would like a special space on the wiki for concept tests.

//How to keep count the use of CATs:// teams are starting to think about how to keep track of the number of faculty who try CATs as part of this project.

//How to track the changes which result from administering CATs:// this poses more of a methodological challenge. Peg (Everett) wondered about having people keep journals where they could write quick reflective notes. <span style="color: black; display: block; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 8pt; line-height: 115%;">
 * COLLEGE UPDATES** //[for colleges not directly involved in RPM but who attended the Summer Institute and are interested and engaged in closely-related work in precollege math]://
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Pierce College – **Sharon Camner and Deb Falcioni. They will use CATs in the Early Childhood Education classes with the cohort in Beginning and Intermediate Algebra classes.


 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Cascadia CC – **Rebecca Burke. They plan to use CATs as resources for generating topics for FIGs.