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Curriculum Committee Meeting Minutes

RE: Curriculum, Length and Structure of Program, Student Achievement

Topic: “Test-in” Students at the start of an ESL level

Meeting Date and Time: March 12, 2013 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm

Present: Dante Ferraro, President, Thomas Schwenke, Dean of Administrative Services,
Nori Panganiban, Chair, Faculty: Christian Gallardo

Discussion:

Use MyMorthStarLab as the tool to “test-in” students. Since the MyNorthStarLab is currently used as the “Exit Exam”, in would be helpful to also use it for testing in students. A comparison of the two grades would help assess how well students absorbed the instructional information at each level.

Proposed Process:

• As students purchase their books, point out the access code and its purpose
• Register for MyNorthStarLab
• One year access to program 24/7
• Able to download and save to pc all related audio CDs for practice
• Use MyNorthStar to test-in and test-out of each ESL level
• Use Regit (Point of Sale for textbooks records) to identify the students would purchased books with access codes
• Update spreadsheet daily
• Print out student schedules which include class, hour, room and teacher
• Visit the class. If appropriate time, student will go to the Testing and Assessment Center to register and “test-in”
• Information on students is recorded online and will be compared when students “test-out” from each level

Implementation

Scheduled to begin April 1^st with data retrieved from Regit as of March 1^st.

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