Writing productive feedback questions about undergraduate research skills and information literacy

This free webinar is for current and potential participants in the TLT Group project to develop better feedback questions about courses and workshops that teach undergraduates about research skills and information literacy, i.e., activities teaching any of a set of abilities enabling students to recognize when information is needed plus the abilities to locate, evaluate, and use effectively the needed information. These skills are usually taught cumulatively: first in general education and then in the major, electives, and the co-curriculum.

This workshop focuses on writing questions for feedback forms about such activities: questions likely to produce feedback that directly helps the faculty member (or librarian) to improve the activity.  Such questions might deal with the student perceptions of the purpose of the activity, the clarity of the instructions, whether all phases of the activity were completed, and so on.  In this brief workshop, we'll also talk about that kinds of questions that do not work, e.g., asking about two things at once, ambiguous terms,  answer options that are not complete, …  Bring your draft questions if you'd like group feedback!  At the end of this session, we will discuss whether to schedule more online meetings or webinars this summer.

To learn more about this project, go to http://tinyurl.com/matrix-research.

If you have a schedule conflict for the webinar, please email Steve Ehrmann (ehrmann@tltgroup.org) to get the URL for the archive of this webinar.  We hope you can make the live event, however; your participation will improve the conversation. (And, if possible, use a headset with microphone so that you can speak during our online discussion.)