Tac Abet Accreditation – A New Process, A New Beginning
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Abstract
Abstract NOTE: The first page of text has been automatically extracted and included below in lieu of an abstract TAC-ABET Accreditation – A New Process, A New Beginning I Introduction: During the 2003-2004 academic year, the ABET established, and pilot tested a new method to evaluate programs. This method launched the outcomes-based accreditation criteria and promoted “assessment” as a way-of-life for the institution. The new way-of –life was to think: “Does the program meet the stated outcomes? Are the objectives being met?” In August, 2005 the Sinclair Community College Environmental Engineering Technology (EVT) and the Safety Engineering Technology (SET) Programs were accredited by the Technical Accreditation Commission of ABET (TAC-ABET)1. This paper describes the process that the Environmental Engineering Technology (EVT) and the Safety Engineering Technology (SET) Departments went through to achieve accreditation. The process involved four steps as detailed in Section IV. The steps include: • Request for evaluation • Self Study • The evaluation • Post Evaluation, responses to evaluators’ comments A. Sinclair Community College: Sinclair Community College is a public, comprehensive two-year college located in downtown Dayton, Ohio. The college has a long history of serving the community beginning in 1887 when one room was set aside for an evening school at the Dayton YMCA. Since that first year of operation the school has steadily matured and today serves over 24,000 students each quarter, on a campus of 21 buildings as well as remote sites. Sinclair is a member of the League for Innovation in the Community College and a Vanguard Learning College. B. Engineering and Industrial Technologies Division: Since one of the first courses offered in 1887 was Mechanical Drafting, the Engineering & Industrial Technologies (E&IT) division can trace its roots back to the beginning of the school’s history. With over 4,000 students the E&IT division has grown so that today it is the largest in Ohio and one of the top programs in the nation. Since its beginning the division has added many programs including the Environmental Engineering Technology program in 2000 and the Safety Engineering Technology in 1972. Both of these programs were accredited in 2005 and are discussed in this paper. II TAC-ABET Process: The new process (TC2K) was developed in the year 2000 and instituted in 2003-2004. This new process looks primarily at the qualitative aspects of the programs rather than the quantitative aspects. Following is a statement that best describes the process: “While the qualitative factors are more important than the quantitative assignment of credit hours to any particular area, the general principles outlined in the criteria will be checked closely by analyzing each
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".