Pursue Truth: Read Responsibly. Think Critically. is intended to address information fluency by increasing students' ability to read critically.
Information fluency is the ability to interpret, communicate, problem-solve, and create across a variety of situations in a media-rich, data-driven, global information ecosystem.
Since critical reading is an essential vehicle for evaluating information, solving problems, and creatively integrating knowledge into a wide range of contexts to achieve information fluency, faculty workshops and a Community of Practice will be launched to cultivate these critical reading abilities in students.
Accreditation
The Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges (SACSCOC) requires institutions at reaffirmation to develop a QEP.
The QEP Must
- Focus on a specific topic
- Be formed and endorsed by the campus community
- Emerge from Institutional Assessment
- Have clear goals for student learning outcomes
- Be assessed for its effectiveness and efficiency
Development Process
- Gather data from faculty, staff, students, alumni, and employers
- Collaborate with Institutional Effectiveness and Assessment
- Compile the data and write a QEP report to submit for evaluation
Leadership & Guidance Team
The Leadership Team attends to the impact of the previous QEP on teaching and learning at Old Dominion University, serves as ambassadors for the QEP process to campus constituents, helps solicit potential QEP topics from colleagues in their colleges/units, and identifies a new topic and designs an implementation plan.
"I'm excited to see how we can continue to shape and shift student learning. I'm personally interested in reflection as a means of processing experiences, as I've seen just how asking others to reflect on their learning can help them evaluate and apply what they've experienced. I've worked with faculty who've taken part in the QEP: Improving Disciplinary Writing Workshops and Action Projects to help design assignments that prepare students for life beyond ODU, that ask them to imagine how what they've learned in their courses will be useful to them well beyond their time with us. I'm excited and hopeful that our next QEP will continue to use the faculty development model that's been so successful and broaden the scope of our student learning endeavors. We're building from the ground up, so I look forward to what our campus community will develop together."
"I'm excited to see how we can continue to shape and shift student learning. I'm personally interested in reflection as a means of processing experiences, as I've seen just how asking others to reflect on their learning can help them evaluate and apply what they've experienced. I've worked with faculty who've taken part in the QEP: Improving Disciplinary Writing Workshops and Action Projects to help design assignments that prepare students for life beyond ODU, that ask them to imagine how what they've learned in their courses will be useful to them well beyond their time with us. I'm excited and hopeful that our next QEP will continue to use the faculty development model that's been so successful and broaden the scope of our student learning endeavors. We're building from the ground up, so I look forward to what our campus community will develop together."
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