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8 years teaching English at SMSU 7 ½ years mentoring high school CEP teachers Professional awareness of disconnect in high school and college standards Passion to improve student potential
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Provides a college or university faculty mentor who › Meets regularly with the teacher › Monitors assignments, assessments, and instructional effectiveness › Ensures that the course meets the learning outcomes and that students are held to college- level standards; Provides each secondary instructor with opportunities to participate in appropriate campus-based faculty development activities. (MnSCU, System Procedures, Chapter 3, 2003)
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To determine the level of perceived college readiness between high school students in a dual enrollment English course using inquiry based instruction to implement the pre-determined syllabus and those who were not.
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When ACT conducted the annual National Curriculum Survey (2007), the term was defined as the following: › Approximately a 75% chance of earning a grade of C or better, or approximately a 50% chance of earning a grade of B or better, in selected courses commonly taken by first- year college students (p. 1).
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In most states today, a student can 1. complete all the courses required for high school graduation and college admissions, 2. pass all the required high school assessments 3. be admitted to a college or university – and still require remedial coursework to be ready for first-year college courses” (ACE, p. 8)
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20% of entering students who had received A’s in their last high school English course enrolled in the college’s remedial writing course 45% of entering students who had received B’s in their last high school English course enrolled in the college’s remedial writing course MSCTC data collected between January 2005 – January 2007 as reported in Carney and Crist
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The amount of student learning that occurs in a classroom is directly proportional to the quality and quantity of student involvement in the educational program (Cooper and Prescott 1989). Yet research studies indicate that teachers typically dominate classroom conversation, consuming nearly 70% of classroom time. Inquiry-based instructional approaches reverse this trend, placing students at the helm of the learning process and teachers in the role of learning facilitator, coach, and modeler.
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Activating Prior Knowledge Defining Outcomes for which students will be held accountable Providing Frameworks Student teams brainstorm ideas fitting within broader inquiry or topic Ask students questions to help refine their thinking Empower students to coach and train one another Provide a forum for student presentations Incorporate ongoing, meaningful peer and teacher assessment Reflect on what worked and what didn't, and try it again
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Is it personally relevant and socially significant? Is the student truly interested in the question? Is it researchable? Is it big enough and small enough?
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Local Level › Improve College Readiness empirical data for SMSU › Improve College Readiness in SMSU CEP English students › Bring attention to the potential of SMSU’s CEP program to create alignments with local high schools National Level › Add to the growing body of research searching for alignment solutions › See CEP as turn-key ready for individual cases of institutional College Readiness disconnect
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Self-perception of college readiness before course High school administrator and teacher perception of student college readiness before course Self-perception of college readiness after the coursework High school administrator and teacher perception of student college readiness after course College instructor perception of student college readiness after course Difference in perception between those participating in inquiry-based collaborative communities
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Ever decreasing educational budgets with ever increasing pressure for students to perform Rural population given equitable access to suburban rigorous curriculum Young program nationally with little data collection standards Potential to begin the transition to K-16 system Opportunity for SMSU to lead nationally High school students involved in CEP programs go on to obtain more post secondary education credits
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More data is needed, perhaps more structure Potentially the future of education, perhaps in re-visioning where high school education ends and postsecondary education begins CEP is naturally oriented to collaborations between college and high schools, professors and teachers, and finally students CEP will be the beginning of P-16 in practice CEP can solve real college readiness situations
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Population is all English dual enrollment program participants based out of SMSU in the Fall 2008 semester Non-random Sample of 100 students who engaged in the creation of an inquiry-based instruction community
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High School Administrator – Pre-survey High School Teacher – Pre and post-survey High School Student – Pre and post-survey College Instructor – Pre and post-survey for each individual school
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Surveys › Adapted from NACEP accreditation samples › Reformatted into electronic application and stored in a university data base › Dumped into Excel › Likert scale questions using 1 to 5 ratings › Post-surveys same as pre-surveys › Compared changes between the two
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http://www.southwestmsu.edu/Academi cs/Programs/English/form229.cfm
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Sample and population teachers and instructors participated in workshop 24 participated in workshop discussion about college readiness using survey 12 of sample will participate in post- survey focus groups 13 of population will participate in post- survey focus groups
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Steps › Complete an online pre-survey › Ensure administrator and students do so › Attend the prep workshop › Create and present an online lesson › Participate in online inquiry-based instruction communities › Assist small groups of students in creation of presentation using inquiry based methods › Ask professors to complete a post-survey › Ensure administrator and students complete post- survey
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Invitation letter emailed August 16 explaining steps Pre-survey was complete within the first weeks of semester High school teachers determined when online community would post discussions but done before December 1 Student peer editing will be done before November 15 Student presentations posted before November 25 Online post-survey to be completed by all by December 30 Focus group to be conducted December 15
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Returned data from online surveys stored in university data base Analyzed using Excel and SPSS College perception scores of schools were compared Researcher reported means and standard deviations t tests were performed and compared D2L used for online communication and discussions were stored Microsoft Word document used to record answers and analyze focus group commentary Mixed method design assisted in ensuring validity
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How are your programs run? How much is college readiness a concern for your CEP programs? What is the ability level of your CEP program populations? How do your CEP programs collect and analyze data so far? What is the primary goal of your CEP program and what should it be?
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