MINUTES

Twenty-Ninth Annual Meeting

The Joint Committee on Standards for Educational Evaluation

The Evaluation Center - Western Michigan University

Kalamazoo, MI

September 25-27, 2003



Attendees:     Joint Committee members

  Edith Beatty (ASCD)

  Rolf Blank (CCSSO)

  Flora Caruthers (NLPES)

  James Cullen (CES)

  Paula Egelson (CREATE)

  Leslie Fritz (NEA)

  Arlen Gullickson, Chair (At large)

  Patricia McDivitt (ACA)

  Dianna Newman (AEA)

  Raymond Pecheone (AERA)

  Todd Rogers (At large)

  Lyn Shulha (CSSE)

  Gary Wegenke (AASA)

  Donald Yarbrough (NCME)


  Guests

  Placido Garcia

  Daniel Stufflebeam (Thursday afternoon only)

  Mary Yakimowski (CGCS)


  Joint Committee Staff

  Dale Farland

  Sally Veeder (Secretary)

The meeting was opened at 1:40 p.m. on Thursday, September 25, by Arlen Gullickson, chair.
Sally Veeder served as secretary. The meeting continued through Friday, September 26,
and Saturday, September 27.


The minutes of the 2002 meeting were read and approved. The main motions are listed below:


Status of Motions From 2003

Joint Committee Meeting

Item

Action

Motion/Action

1

No further action required

The revised agenda be approved (Yarbrough: passed)

2

No further action required

The corrected 2002 minutes be approved (Beatty: passed)

3

No further action required

The financial report be approved (Yarbrough: passed)

4

No further action required

Next year’s annual meeting be held on September 23-25, 2004 (Newman: passed)

5

No further action required

The Joint Committee approve the Facilitator’s Guide to The Student Evaluation Standards (Yarbrough: passed)

6

No further action required

Approve initiation of the work to revise the program evaluation standards (Beatty: passed)

7

Task force to work accordingly

The scope of the current Personnel Evaluation Standards should be focused primarily on educational training and personnel, regardless of context, with extension to other groups at the time of the next revision (3rd edition) and that the Joint Committee facilitate research on how best to expand the constituency for The Personnel Evaluation Standards at the next revision. (Yarbrough: passed)

8

Ongoing

Members are to communicate to their organizations that this group (JCSEE) has taken action to create a task force, develop a position paper, recommend appropriate changes, address the makeup of the Joint Committee and the process of developing standards. JCSEE is not offering any conclusions about where it will end up; diversity is an issue now being addressed and its components are being addressed. (Fritz: passed)

9

Task force to work accordingly

The Joint Committee chair shall create a research task force to work with the executive committee to further the research-related objectives of the Joint Committee as outlined in the Operating Procedures document and other Joint Committee documents. (Shulha: passed)

10

Ongoing

The Joint Committee should authorize the research task force to review submissions and possibly award an annual Outstanding Young Researcher Award (Yarbrough: passed)

11

Invitation sent to Mary Yakimowski for advice or handling; Yakimowski contacted Sharon Lewis at CGCS and sent copy of invitation letter

The Joint Committee shall invite the Council of Great City Schools to be a sponsoring organization of the Joint Committee on Standards for Educational Evaluation (Yarbrough: passed)

12

No further action required

Don Yarbrough shall be appointed to complete Todd Rogers’ term as vice chair of the Joint Committee (2005). (Beatty: passed)

13

Letter of thanks and certificate sent to Rogers

The JCSEE shall provide an expression of appreciation to Todd Rogers for his contributions to the Joint Committee. (Cullen: passed)

14

No further action required

The paper ballots used to choose new Executive Committee member to replace Yarbrough shall be destroyed. (McDivitt: passed)

15

Decision will be based on available funding

Executive Committee shall consider Palo Alto as a site for the 2004 annual meeting (Yarbrough: passed)


On motion of Donald Yarbrough, the meeting adjourned at 4:15 p.m.



Sally Veeder                                                                                     Arlen Gullickson

Secretary                                                                                          Chair



2003 Annual Meeting
The Evaluation Center
Western Michigan University
Kalamazoo, MI
September 25-27, 2003

Agenda for the 2003 Annual Meeting


Status of Motions from 2002
Joint Committee Meeting

Item Action Motion / Action
1 No further action required Approve the agenda (Yarbrough/M. Wilson; passed)  
2 No further action required Approve financial report (Beatty/Yarbrough; passed)  
3 No further action required The 2003 meeting dates be September 25-27, 2003; (Yarbrough/McDivitt passed) 
4 No further action required Approve the minutes as corrected (Yarbrough/Newman; passed)  
5 No further action required Approval of the hearing reports with edit of and inclusion of the presentation materials (M. Wilson/McDivitt; passed) 
6 Completed at 2002 meeting The committee will vote on the 28 standards individually and as a whole and on the supporting materials.  The vote will be yes, no, or abstain (with comments required for a no vote and optional for others).  The vote will close on May 15, 2002.  Individuals will vote by filling out and submitting to the Joint Committee chair a signed paper ballot. (Yarbrough/B. Wilson; passed)   
7 Completed at 2002 meeting Don Yarbrough, Bob Wilson, Edith Beatty, Jerry Horn, Arlen Gullickson, and Todd Rogers be designated the consensus response committee. (Newman/M. Wilson; passed) 
8 Completed at 2002 meeting Approve the appendix to the standards.  The chair of the Joint Committee, with help of the consensus committee, will assure that it is accurate (Yarbrough/Newman; passed)  
9 Applying the Standards is placed between the Introduction and the Standards Authorize the chair, in consultation with the consensus committee, to decide about placement of the “applying the standards” chapter (Yarbrough/M. Wilson; passed)  
10 The relationship continues The Joint Committee continue to contract with The Evaluation Center at Western Michigan University to serve as the host organization for the Joint Committee (Yarbrough/Beatty; passed)  
11 No further action required The Joint Committee affirm Arlen Gullickson as chair of the Joint Committee for the next term as specified in the operating procedures (Yarbrough/Newman; passed)  
12 No further action required Todd Rogers nominated for a 3-year at-large membership on the Joint Committee (Yarbrough/Beatty; passed)
13 No further action required Todd Rogers nominated as vicechair of the Joint Committee (Yarbrough/Newman; passed by acclimation)
14 No further action required Patty McDivitt nominated for a 3-year term as a member of the executive committee of the Joint Committee (Yarbrough/B. Wilson; passed)
15 No further action required Don Yarbrough nominated to a 1-year term on the executive committee (Cullen; passed)
16 No further action required Edith Beatty nominated to a 2-year term on the executive committee (Newman; passed by acclimation)
17 Tabled NAESP and NASSP be designated as cooperating members if they do not send a representative to the next meeting, and the chair is instructed to make all diligent and appropriate efforts to encourage the organizations to appoint effective representatives. (Yarbrough/Newman; tabled)
18   Table the previous motion with the chair making all due effort to solicit input from the two organizations (Beatty/Newman; passed)
19 Task Force activities? Dr. Newman was appointed chair of the task force, and Dr. Egelson will represent the Joint Committee on the task force. The chair appoint a task force with at least one Joint Committee member to explore all options for better incorporating diversity perspectives in the collaboration and products of the Joint Committee.  The task force will report at the next annual meeting.  That task force will explore at least the following as possible actions:
  1. Task force membership; chairs of task forces
  2. Panel of writers
  3. Contacting special interest groups and minority group member organizations
  4. Make special effort to recruit membership from
    1. Council of Exceptional Children
    2. Association for Rehabilitation Counseling
    3. Holmes Scholars
    4. Holmes Partnership
  5. An advisory committee for diversity
  6. Cooperating memberships
    (Yarbrough/McDivitt; Passed) 
20   The chair of the Joint Committee appoint a task force to address enhancing the value and use of The Student Evaluation Standards through formatting, targeting users, marketing approaches, etc., appreciating the recommendations of the validation panel.  The task force will report at the September 2003 annual meeting (Beatty/McDivitt; passed)  
21 A draft has been prepared by Todd Rogers The executive committee revise the operating procedures in response to the Validation Panel recommendation (and propose changes to address this recommendation).  The executive committee will report to the Joint Committee either at or prior to the next annual meeting (Yarbrough/B. Wilson; passed)  
22 No further action required The title of the book be “The Student Evaluation Standards” (Beatty/Caruthers; passed)  
23 A training guide has been developed by Lori Wingate of The Evaluation Center; it is being reviewed. The Joint Committee not accept the training guide from Corwin Press and that the dissemination task force be charged with pursuing additional training materials (McDivitt/Newman; passed unanimously)  
24 No further action required Reaffirm the Program Standards for a period of two years (Yarbrough/Beatty; passed)  
25 The Personnel Standards are being revised; Todd Rogers chair of the task force When the Joint Committee begins a revision of a set of standards or begins work on a new set of standards, it will instruct a task force to do the development work based on a precise, detailed task description provided by the Joint Committee.   That detailed description will include but will not be limited to:
  1. A description of the task
  2. The qualities and qualifications of the writers
  3. Assigning tasks to writers based on a matching process
  4. Review of work completed
  5. Creation of a unified document
  6. Submission of a draft document to the Joint Committee for review at an annual meeting.
When a task force is created, it will include a member of The Evaluation Center to serve as a liaison between the task force and the Joint Committee (McDivitt/Yarbrough; passed)