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These
materials are for use only by institutions that subscribe to
The TLT Group, to participants in TLT Group workshops, and
to invited guests. The TLT Group is a non-profit whose
existence is made possible by their subscription and registration
fees. if your institution is not yet among
our subscribers,
we invite you to join us, use these materials, and help us
continue to improve them!
(under construction; suggestions
appreciated!)
If you're considering adapting ARQ as part
of a program to help faculty gather evidence from their
students in order to improve teaching and learning with
technology, you may also want to consider how to evaluate
the program. (To see a summary of the Flashlight
Approach,
click here; the ARQ materials would be the 'stuff'
referred to in that summary.)
One strategy would be to study how faculty
learn from their students generally. You could ask the
extent to which they agree or disagree with various
descriptions of how some faculty teach each week. For
example,
"These statements describe ways in which
some faculty teach. Please indicate the extent to which you
agree that each statement describes how you
have been teaching over the last two weeks:
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When I lecture, I usually follow a plan
I lay out before class
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I'm the expert. I rarely see a need to
ask students questions, other (of course) than questions
that tell me how well they understand the material in
the course.
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As I teach, I watch student expressions
carefully and every few minutes alter what I'm doing in
response to what I see in their faces.
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In the last two weeks, I've given
students at least one survey in which I asked their
about their experiences with some element of my class.
Other questions in such a survey would ask
about their experience with various faculty support
services, including ARQ.
Analyzing the data: you might do this survey
once a year, with all faculty or with a sample of faculty.
It could be useful to see a) whether faculty learn from
their students' experiences with course activities and
materials, b) how faculty learn, c) whether faculty support
services such as ARQ are influencing how they learn, d) what
suggestions faculty members have about how to make such
services more accessible, rewarding and effective.
[If you would find such a survey useful and
want to develop one with us, and if your institution is a
TLT Group subscriber, please contact us!]
- Steve Ehrmann, Director, The Flashlight
Program
ehrmann @ tltgroup.org
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