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Department of Early Childhood Education College of Education G Academic Program Review Self-Study Period of Review (Fall 2002 – Spring 2005) Dr. Barbara Meyers, ECE Department Chair Dr. Julie Dangel, APACE Review Chair for ECE with the Program Advisory Committee Submitted November 28, 2005 Welcome to the Department of Early Childhood Education. This is an exciting place to be! We are one of the largest departments devoted to early childhood education (defined as Birth to 5th grade) in the state. We are proud of our accomplishments both nationally and within the state of Georgia. Our faculty members are very active in professional activities and organizations in the university, the community, the state and the nation. We are actively involved in scholarship in many areas including constructivist theories, literacy, teacher development, mathematics, children’s play, urban education, inclusion, and multicultural issues. Our programs are exceptional and our graduates are welcomed into the education community as teachers and leaders. The following sections describe our department according to the template prescribed for APACE self-study. Section A provides an assessment of our strengths and areas for improvement, Section B provides historical and contextual information for the department, Section C describes our progress toward goals and objectives, Sections D, E and F provide data regarding curricula, faculty and student quality, respectively, Section G describes the adequacy of our resources and Section H presents our goals and objectives for the future. In many places in this report, data are summarized in tables to make reading easier and highlight data from the voluminous amount of information collected. Complete data are available in appendices and on CD. Table of Contents Introduction i Section A: Unit Assessment of Strengths and weaknesses 1 Program Quality 1 Survey Data 1 Course Evaluation Data 2 Faculty Productivity 2 Centrality of the Programs to the University 4 Viability of the Programs 5 Strategic focus 6 Financial Resource Analysis 6
History 8 Contextual Background: Summary of Department Programs 11
Summary of Current Major Departmental Projects 12 Evidence of Program Relevance and the Degree to which Community, Student and Professional Needs are Served by the Programs 14 Faculty 15 Number by Rank 15 Tenure Status 15 Gender and Underrepresented Group Status 15 Governance 16 Faculty Productivity in Teaching 16 Faculty Productivity in Research 16 Section C: Progress toward Goals and Objectives Since the last Academic Program Review 18 1995 Self Analysis 18 Responses to issues raised by external and internal reviewers 22
Evaluation of Curricula Quality based on Evidence of Student Learning 25 Evaluation of Curricular Quality Based on Surveys 27
Input Quality Metrics 32 Output Quality Metrics 34
Faculty Resources 37 Administrative Resources 37 Technological Resources 38 Space Resources 38 Laboratory Resources 40 GSU Foundation Resources 40
Strengths and weaknesses of ECE 41 ECE Program Goals and Action Plans for the next APACE Review Cycle 42 For ease of navigation press Ctrl + Click the Appendix or Table to follow the hyperlink List of Appendices Appendix A-1: Mission statement for Georgia State University Appendix A-2: Mission statement for the Department of Early Childhood Appendix B-1: Rationale for choices of peer programs Appendix B-2: Organization of unit governance and committee structure Appendix B-3: N/A (Unit by-laws) Appendix B-4: Current faculty roster with rank, tenure status and full/part-time status Appendix B-6: Center report from the Child Development Center Appendix B-7: Summary of Current Major Departmental Projects Appendix D-1: Learning outcome plans and reports (on CD) Appendix D-3 and 6: Degree requirements, admission and advisement procedures Appendix D-4: Course offerings for 2002-2004 Appendix D-5: Summary results of surveys Appendix E-1: ECE Notable Service and Honors Appendix F-1: Definition of graduate faculty and criteria for selection Appendix F-2: List of graduate faculty Appendix F-3: Current curriculum vitae (on CD) Appendix F-4: Description of faculty involvement in self study process Appendix F-5: External grants for 2003-2005 Appendix F-6: Awards, Achievements, or scholarly work by students Appendix G-1: Summary of data on student/faculty ratios and credit hour generation Appendix G-2: University library report List of Tables Table B-1: Number of faculty by rank, tenure status, gender and underrepresented group status Table B-2: Faculty research productivity Table B-3: Number of enrolled students and graduates by program Table B-4: Credit hours generated by faculty type Table B-5: Average number of faculty by rank and status Table D-1: Departmental course offerings Table E-1: Mean graduate admission test scores and GPAs Table E-2: Selection Ratio of Applicant/Accepted Graduate Students Table G-1: Student/tenure-track faculty ratios |
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