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It's not unusual for faculty to be searching
for ways to improve learning for all students in their
classes, while accreditors are pressing the institution to
show evidence that 'assessment' is placing a useful role.
For both reasons, it can be helpful to help faculty learn
some innovative techniques for using student feedback to
improve learning in their courses. One way to gather
feedback, extensively and often anonymously, is through
surveying one's own students (even in small classes).
The TLT Group can offer a
"train-the-trainer" workshop for your institution, on site
and/or online. (We don't especially like the term
"training" here; this is about education, not about rote
technique, but 'train the trainer' seems to be the easiest
way to label what we're offering here.) The ultimate
goal: help interested faculty learn to use student
feedback. We can help a cadre of your staff and
faculty learn how to run their own "Asking
the Right Questions (ARQ)" workshops.
ARQ workshops are brief hybrid workshops for
faculty: a typical workshop lasts only about 10-20 minutes,
easy to fit into larger meetings or workshops, a brown bag
lunch, or a short online session. The materials we provide
to help your staff offer the workshop include multimedia
clips, worksheets, survey templates, text for advertising
the workshop, and more. If a faculty member in
department X takes a workshop from one of your staff,
applies what's been learned to a course, and likes the
result, that faculty member could easily take 15 minutes and
brief some interested colleagues so that they, too, could
try the technique in their own courses.
You can also use a TLT Group visit for other
purposes, e.g.,
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learn how to develop your own brief
hybrid workshops (for faculty development; help faculty
learn how to create brief hybrid workshops for their
students)
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help with your own evaluation plans and
grant proposals,
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train faculty who have mini-grants about
how to evaluate them,
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briefings for staff on progress and
problems in the field,
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and more.
Although a
TLT Group
Network membership is not required for us to offer such
a workshop, membership gives several important advantages:
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Flashlight Online, our web-based survey service,
already includes all the ARQ templates (model surveys
and item banks) as well as other item banks and model
surveys, so faculty don't need to recopy the ARQ
materials each time they use them;
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Flashlight Online enables your faculty
to see and adapt one another's surveys, feedback forms,
and rubrics,
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Network members get two free days of
consulting so bringing a leader to campus to run this
'train the trainer workshop' will cost you only the
travel expenses for the leader.
To find out more, please contact Steve
Ehrmann (ehrmann @ tltgroup.org; 301-270-8311).
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