Students will demnstarte professional competence in original research in the area of literacy.
Objective
Demonstrate Professional Competence In Literacy Research
Students will demonstrate professional competence in original research in the area of literacy.
Indicator
Rubric For Proposal For Dissertation
Working as a class and under the direction of the proposal class professor and graduate faculty members within the program area, students will construct a rubric for the evaluation of their dissertation proposal. This rubric will then be used by the students and their committee to evaluate the areas of strength and weaknesses in the proposal. It will also be used to guide the student towards addressing any weaknesses.
Criterion
Rubric For Proposal
Initial rubric results will be evaluated to determine areas of weaknesses within proposals that need to be addressed prior to the defense. After the defense, the proposals will be evaluated to indicate increased learning on the part of the student if the areas of weakness are adequately addressed. Our goals will be that 1) 85% of students will initially have minor weaknesses on the proposal before the defense; and 2) 95% of students will have no weaknesses noted on the rubric after the defense.
This is a new objective for 2012-2013, baseline data will be gathered.
Finding
Demonstrate Professional Competence In Literacy Research
Initial rubric results were evaluated to determine areas of weaknesses within proposals that need to be addressed prior to the defense. The rubric was somewhat problematic. While more than 85% of students had only minor weaknesses on the proposal before the defense; and 95% of students had no weaknesses noted on the rubric after the defense, the rubric inself needs additional tweeking.
Action
Demonstrate Competence In Literacy Research
We are going to work on tweeking the rubric.
Objective
Comprehensive Publication For Submission
Students will prepare a journal-ready article to be presented to the graduate faculty within the program area. This article will be evaluated to determine the knowledge of research and competence within the literacy field demonstrated by the students.
Indicator
Article For Submission
Feedback on a manuscript review form will indicate strengths and weaknesses within the submission and indicate whether the article would be accepted, accepted with revision or rejected. Based on the feedback, the student will be encouraged to revise or revise and resubmit. If the article is accepted by the committee, the student will be supported through the process of submitting the article to an outside journal for review.
Criterion
Fifty Percent Of Students Have Article Accepted For Publication
After all the mentoring regarding producing a publication-ready article, we will claim success if 50% of students have articles accepted for publication.
As this is a new objective for 2012-2013, baseline data will be gathered this year.
Finding
Comprehensive Publication For Submission
10 or 11 students chose to submit the article instead of doing the traditional comprehensives. We are in the process of evaluating the articles, so only one has been submitted as of this date. We have not heard if it has been accepted or not.