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Version 1.0 of the
Flashlight Current
Student Inventory (CSI) is an indexed set of almost 500 validated questions
for gathering
information from current enrolled students about teaching-learning
practices, the use of technology to aid those practices (e.g., e-mail to
help them communicate with faculty), technology support, demographic
variables, distance learning, and other related issues.
All
subscribing institutions get a CD-ROM containing (among
other materials) version 1.0 of the CSI. The CSI is also available on
this website. Subscribing institutions have the right to use
or modify the materials in any way they wish, so long as it
advances the mission of that institution or project (they
are not licensed, for example, to sell or give away the
materials to other institutions).
Flashlight Online 1.0 is
a web-based survey system that also includes the Current
Student Inventory in searchable form; for example Flashlight
Online authors can search for all items that relate to the
concept of collaborative learning (whether or not the words
"collaborative" or "learning" appear in the item.
Flashlight Online
is included with Comprehensive Collection and Network
subscriptions. Alliance subscribers and others are
allowed to put their licensed copies of the CSI in other
survey engines that can manage item banks; any licensed
institution can also put surveys created with the CSI into
other survey engines.
All TLT/Flashlight
subscriber institutions receive a site license for
the Handbook/CSI; one copy of the book, and a CD-ROM (containing the CSI in Rich Text Format files).
They also receive institutional usernames and passwords so that they can
read the online version of the Handbook (and all other TLT Group
subscriber materials online).
Version 2.0 of the
Current Student Inventory is gradually taking shape
inside Flashlight
Online 2.0. So far, 2.0 closely follows the
outline of version 1.0, but some questions are being added,
deleted or reworded. So far, version 2.0 has not been
validated. But CSI 2.0 nonetheless has at least two
advantages over CSI 1.0:
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Version 2.0 is a
matrix survey, which means that authors can
tailor the language for different respondent pools
(e.g., courses) while retaining the ability to analyze
data across courses. For example, suppose your
institution used two different course management
systems. In one set of courses you might want to
ask about "Blackboard" while for another set of courses,
the same questions might refer to "Sakai,"
"Desire2Learn" or "Moodle." You could then either
contrast the responses between the groups or, for
questions about time spent commuting or other questions
where the specific technology was unlikely to make a
difference, pool data across groups. Matrix
surveys also allow authors to tailor whether the
questions are in present tense (for mid-course surveys)
or past tense (end of course surveys) and to insert the
name of the course or instructor into questions where
appropriate.
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Updated content:
Version 1.0 was written mainly in 1995-97. While many of
the questions are still as clear and pertinent today as
when 1.0 was validated, other questions had to be
revised to reflect changes in language, technology, and
practice. Eventually we will also add new sections
(e.g., about polling systems and ePortfolios).
Version 2.0 is a work in
progress and we are seeking collaborators
from among current and new subscribers and individual
members. We especially encourage experienced graduate
students looking for projects to contact us. By summer, all
users of Flashlight Online 2.0 will find CSI 2.0 in a folder
on their survey desktops; until then, users should contact
flashlight@ tltgroup.org to request access to CSI 2.0.
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