EDAD 523: P-T-P Project- Developing a First Year Experience Program for Multiracial Students

EDAD 523: P-T-P Project- Developing a First Year Experience Program for Multiracial Students

Description:  During this course we became familiar with student development theories and how they may be used by student affairs practitioners. In order to more completely understand how theory may be used to inform program development, students worked in groups to complete a Practice-Theory-Practice project. My group chose to create a first year experience program for multicultural students.

Date/Semester: Summer 2015

Learning Domains Addressed: Leadership, Education, and Assesment & Evaluation

Learning Outcomes:

Students will be able to (SWiBAT) identify common trends and issues among multiracial students in higher education through a review of literature.

SWiBAT develop a conceptual framework for a first year experience program for multiracial students that includes at least one learning intervention.

Assessment Rubric:

	Advanced	Competent	Basic	Poor
SLO #1	Student can identify several common trends and issues among selected student population based on existing literature and relevant theory.	Student can identify several common trends and issues among selected student population based on existing literature.	Student can identify few common trends and issues among selected student population.	Student cannot identify common trends and issues among selected student population.
SLO #2	Student develops a strong, theory informed conceptual framework for the program and more than two strong learning interventions.	Student develops a conceptual framework with at least one theory referenced for the program and one to two strong learning interventions.	Student develops a conceptual framework for the program and one learning intervention.	Student does not develop a conceptual framework for the program and/or at least one learning intervention.

Evidence:

P-T-P Presentation

Reflection:   

For SLO #1, I rated myself as Advanced because I feel that my group and I were able to complete a thorough review of literature that included relevant theories. This literature review informed our development of a first year experience program for multicultural students as we were able to identify common trends and issues for this population. We then attempted to address these in our interventions.

For SLO #2, I rated myself as Competent because I felt that our conceptual framework could have used some support and our interventions could also benefit from more attention to detail with regard to incorporating theory. I believe we had several strong interventions, however, we struggled to make strong connects to our guiding framework in the amount of time allotted.