Lisa's+Session-Work+Group+4-Braxton

__ Work group #4 __ -Braxton: Faculty professional choices in teaching that foster student success **IUB members: Mahauganee, Chip, Debbie ** Each group member will post responses to the following questions on your group's work page. Please respond to the following: · What are the authors proposing? Clarifying the meaning of student success 8 domains of college student success: academic attainment, acquisition of general ed, development of academic competence, development of cognitive skills and intellectual dispositions, occupational attainment, preparation for adulthood and citizenship, personal accomplishments, and personal development. if a theory really existed, faculty may choose to use it Student success depends on the recommendations from policy makers student success depends on the willingness of faculty members to actually make concerted efforts to inprove in the classroom

· Tell us why you agree or disagree with their approaches, recommendations, theories, and/or models? 1) I always thinking performance funding is a bit tricky and highly dependent on the academic field. Not all areas of study can be evaluated the same and performance based funding requires this 2) I like the idea of earmarking funding for faculty development 3) In theory, I agree with the idea of implementing performance reviews, but the authors didn't include any detail on what would be included.

1) Again, they didn't provide any rubric for how commitment and support for excellence in undergraduate learning should be expressed 2) In theory, I like the agree but it seems like it could turn out to be an administrative nightmare. 3) Once more, they didn't provide a rubric to base their argument.

1) Faculty play a crucial role in student success, especially through their ability to alter the in-class experience of students. I agree that placing a greater emphasis on the scholarship of teaching from both the state and institutional levels would help foster faculty interest in teaching (and increase faculty efforts to improve their teaching skills)...ultimately aiding student success. 2) I'm not sure that the tactics lined out in the executive summary are the best methods for going abou this. I'm sure reading the full report would provide better insight.

· Please describe how you would improve or add to the proposed project. In order to improve their recommendations, I would provide mini-rubrics that gives readers more of an idea of what qualities should be included in reviews. It's great to talk about something conceptually, but without a clear plan of what would be included, it's extremely difficult to buy-in to their recommendations.

Earmarking a portion of state funding may be a viable option. However, I would have like to see a recommendation of which line items should be altered to provide this funding.

· Post comments/feedback on one of your group members post. I'm not sure I believe "student success depends on the recommendations from policy makers." Depends is a strong word; at best, I'd say there's the possibility of an indirect boost in student success from the efforts of policy makers.

Please post all responses on your work group page //no later// than __12:00 pm on Tuesday, March 24__.