Attendees:
Joint Committee Members:
Dr. Rolf Blank (CCSSO)
Dr. Arlen Gullickson, Chair (At Large)
Dr. Jerry Horn (At Large)
Ms. Patty McDivitt (American Counseling Association)
Dr. Jack Naglieri (APA)
Dr. Todd Rogers (CREATE)
Ms. Wendy Tackett (AEA)
Dr. Gary Wegenke (AASA)
Dr. Bob Wilson (CSSE)
Dr. Mark Wilson (AERA)
Dr. Donald Yarbrough (NCME)
Validation Panel:
Dr. Robert Linn, Chair
Joint Committee Staff:
Dale Farland, Acting Secretary
Dr. Gullickson opened the meeting as a committee of the whole.
Dr. Gullickson reported on items to be considered at the meeting
1) Need to look at Student Standards to consider status and update based upon field trials
2) Need to consider Personnel Standards
3) Program Standards need to be considered within the year
4) Consider revisions of Committee procedures including use of Technical Advisory Group.
5) Identify Technical Advisory Groups for specific tasks
6) Schedule and prioritize JC tasks
7) Reconsider JC communications
8) Review AFT status
9) Consider JC Income needs
Dr. Gullickson reviewed the proposed agenda for the meeting.
The agenda was accepted.
Dr. Gullickson presented the Financial Report
1)Royalties (the primary source of income) are dropping off
2)A question was raised regarding the future ANSI costs.
Dr. Gullickson gave a summary of activities since the previous meeting
1)Work on Student Evaluation Standards
2)Consideration of revision of the Personnel Standards
Dr. Gullickson asked the attendees to review for the committee their activities related to standards and the Joint Committee for the previous year. Each attendee summarized their activities.
The Committee discussed several options for proceeding on review of the Student Standards at this and the next meeting.
Dr. Yarbrough reported on his summary of the results from the field test trials. Based upon analysis of the 63 responses available at the time of the analysis, his conclusions were that the field testers
1)were quite able to use the standards.
2)achieved insights from the experience.
3)were able to make judgments about their practices.
Overall, the field testers said they had gotten benefit from the Student Standards. There were observations regarding individual standards, the relationships among standards, and the organization of the book.
The Joint Committee, working as a committee of the whole, proceeded to discuss the Student Standards and suggestions for revisions.
A quorum was declared and the business meeting was called to order by Dr. Gullickson.
Dr. Gullickson presented the minutes of the previous meeting which were approved without revision.
The Student Standards Validation Panel was discussed. Dr. Rogers and Dr. Stufflebeam resigned from the panel to work on the standards. Dr. Linn was appointed to the panel and asked to serve as chair. As a result, the panel is short of members.
The second half of the first paragraph of Section 5.8 will read, “Six persons shall be selected to serve on this panel including experts in appropriate areas as determined by the Executive Committee. The Executive Committee will establish a systematic selection process with assistance from the project staff; it will define the qualifications of each panelist and obtain nominations and supporting information from the president of each Sponsoring Organization. The Executive Committee will review and discuss the recommendations and rank order nominees for each position. Subsequently, the Project Staff will recruit the panelists in accordance with the Executive Committee’s specifications.” (Changes are in Italics.) Motion passed.
Dr. Gullickson distributed copies of “Guidelines for Conducting Public Hearings.”
Dr. Gullickson distributed a copy of the hearings note for the Canadian Evaluation Society.
Dr. Gullickson distributed a report from the national hearing at CREATE, July 2001.
Dr. Blank reported on plans for a national hearing sponsored by CCSSO.
Dr. Gullickson reported that Dr. Newman will conduct a national hearing at the AEA meeting in St. Louis.
Dr. Yarbrough reported that a national hearing is planned for the AERA meeting in New Orleans.
Dr. Gullickson distributed letters from negotiations with Corwin Press regarding publication of the Student Standards. Members suggested consideration in the contract of authorization to allow use of the standard statements, to revisit royalties for hard cover copies, and to consider copyright relative to electronic copy.
A decision on the title for the publication will be made at the next Joint Committee meeting.
The time and location of the next annual meeting of the Joint Committee was discussed. It was recommended that the meeting be earlier to allow completion of Student Standards activities to allow 2002 publication of the Standards. The suggestion was made that the meeting overlap with the meeting of the Validation Panel to allow their report to the Committee. It was also suggested that the meeting take place in Kalamazoo as the Validation Panel needs access to Committee records.
“The Joint Committee authorize the Executive Committee to approve announcing the draft standards per ANSI requirement no earlier than 10 days after posting the draft with request for responses from the Joint Committee. During these 10 days the Joint Committee members are expected to share any concerns they have with the Executive Committee, and Executive Committee will consider these concerns in finalizing the draft for submission to ANSI.”
Motion passed.
The meeting was adjourned at 12:20 PM, September 28, 2002
Work continued as a committee of the whole.
Considerable additional work was done discussing the Student Evaluation Standards.
Wendy Tackett presented a report on her study of the status and recommendations for the Personnel Evaluation Standards, including recommendations for revision of the procedures used by the Joint Committee.
Considerable discussion followed about the nature of the Joint Committee and the potential of using technical advisory groups to perform some of the tasks normally engaged in by the Committee. A recommendation was made to appoint a subcommittee to suggest revision of the Operating Procedures and a process for using task forces to do development efforts.
Other recommendations offered were for the Joint Committee to consider a dissemination plan for the various standards.
A recommendation was made to look into revision of the Operating Procedures to allow virtual meetings.
Patti McDivitt was asked by the chair to draft a press release for the Joint Committee work for the year.
The Joint Committee ended its working session at about 3 PM, September 29, 2001.