1. CRITICAL CORE:
Straight Talk

2. Today’s Discussion What is Critical Core?
What are the Critical Core Competencies?
What is process for Critical Core?
How are Faculty a part of the process?
Owen

3. What is the CRITICAL CORE?
A model that represents our college’s commitment to ensuring students have the CRITICAL CORE skills they need for personal, academic, and professional success.
Creates a pathway that ensures students are engaged with each CRITICAL CORE skill multiple times from general education requirements through program- specific requirements and completion.
Continual faculty lead and college engaged process.
Owen

4. What are the Critical Core Competencies?
The ability to interpret, analyze, synthesize, or evaluate information, issues and ideas and apply creative thought to formulate an opinion, solve a problem or reach a conclusion.
CRITICAL THINKING
The ability to develop and effectively express in written and oral form ideas that are appropriate to audience and purpose.
(WRITTEN/ORAL) COMMUNICATION
The ability to understand and manage self, to function effectively in social and professional environments, and to make reasoned judgements based on an understanding of the diversity of the world community
PERSONAL GROWTH & CULTURAL LITERACY
The ability to locate, understand, evaluate, and synthesize, information and data in a technological and data-driven society
INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY & QUANTITATIVE LITERACY
Owen

5. What is process for Critical Core?
Jen

6. What is process for Critical Core: Key Indicators
Jen

7. What is process for Critical Core: Key Indicators
Critical Thinking
GENERAL EDUCATION FOUNDATION
PROGRAMS OF STUDY
Student selects and uses information appropriately to investigate a point of view or conclusion
Student evaluate concepts and information to support an opinion, solve a problem, or reach a conclusion
Jen
Student formulates and articulates a position
Student articulates a conclusion and identifies implications and consequences
Student integrates different ideas and concepts within a position

8. What is process for Critical Core: Key Indicators
Communication
GENERAL EDUCATION FOUNDATION
PROGRAMS OF STUDY
Student collects, organizes, and analyzes subject-relevant information that results in written communication with minimal errors
Student demonstrates control of syntax and mechanics
Jen
Students orally communicate in a clear, organized manner which demonstrates awareness of audience
Student demonstrates appropriate communication techniques for a specific area of study and / or within professional contexts
Student articulates a clearly and appropriately supported viewpoint

9. Key Indicators Personal Growth and Cultural Literacy
GENERAL EDUCATION FOUNDATION
PROGRAMS OF STUDY
Student demonstrates cultural awareness
Student demonstrates ethical and informed decision-making
Jen
Student demonstrates ethical self-awareness
Student demonstrates effective teamwork
Student identifies and assesses assumptions

10. What is process for Critical Core: Key Indicators
Information Technology and Quantitative Literacy
GENERAL EDUCATION FOUNDATION
PROGRAMS OF STUDY
Student applies quantitative concepts to interpret data
Student uses quantitative concepts for calculation
Jen
Student applies qualitative concepts to analyze data
Student uses digital tools and environments to locate, access, and gather data
Student evaluates information and its sources critically

11. What is process for Critical Core: Signature Rubrics
Competency
Key Indicator
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Beginning
Emerging
Proficient 1 2 3 4
Critical Thinking
Student selects and uses information appropriately to investigate a point of view or conclusion
Indicates an assignment was not submitted.
Indicates submission of an assignment that does not allow for sufficient or appropriate scoring of skill, for example, an assignment that plagiarized.
Information is taken from source(s) without any interpretation and/or evaluation.
Viewpoints of experts are taken as fact, without question.
Information is taken from source(s) with some interpretation and/or evaluation, but not enough to develop a coherent analysis.
Viewpoints of experts are taken as mostly fact, with little questioning.
Information is taken from source(s) with enough interpretation and/or evaluation to develop a coherent analysis.
Viewpoints of experts are subject to questioning.
Information is taken from source(s) with enough interpretation and/or evaluation to develop a comprehensive analysis.
Viewpoints of experts are questioned thoroughly.

12. What is process for Critical Core: Signature Assignment
An authentic assessment
It is an assignment, task, activity, project or exam purposefully created or modified to collect evidence for a specific learning outcomes or learning outcomes.
Ensures that all faculty are evaluating student performance in a consistent, reliable, and effective manner.
In alignment with a Signature Rubric, a Signature Assignment allows for a comparison across courses, disciplines, and programs.
Jen

13. How are Faculty a part of the process?
Faculty teaching curriculum courses will:
Incorporate the common Signature Assignment for their course into course.
Score (0-4) the common signature assignment using the common Signature Rubric. (This scoring rubric does NOT replace the grading rubric faculty may use to assign a grade to the assignment.)
Keep assignment stored within blackboard or on-hand for sample collection
Owen

14. How are Faculty a part of the process?
Signature Assignment Scores in Blackboard (Three Parts)
Faculty will upload a ‘package’ to course shell that will create a rubric score column
Faculty will label Signature Assignment Column
Faculty will enter signature assignment rubric scores in rubric column
Student Artifacts Collection and Storage
Faculty will keep Signature Assignment artifacts
A random selection of course sections will be pulled for artifact review
Owen

15. Questions Dr. Owen Sutkowski, Communication Instructor
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Dr. Jen Hejazi, Psychology Instructor
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Owen