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TLT/Flashlight Subscriber Resources

Faculty, staff and students at subscribing institutions can legally copy and alter these subscriber resources so long as their versions are used for institutional purposes.  Many of these materials require a username and password

Table of Contents

  1. Flashlight Evaluation Handbook and Current Student Inventory (includes 20+ specialized guides)
  2. Flashlight Online
  3. Flashlight Cost Analysis Handbook
  4. Flashlight Faculty Inventory
  5. BeTA Project on Student Course Evaluation

Click here for Table of Contents for all TLT Group Subscriber Materials.

Who Needs Each Package: Key to Columns below

Chief Academic Officer, other Central Administration

CAO

Information Technology Services; CIO

ITS

Distance Learning Program

DLP

Library; Information Literacy Program

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Assessment Program; Institutional Research; Accreditation self-study

AIR

Teaching Learning Center; Faculty Development

TLC

Faculty, Individual FAC

TLT/Flashlight coordinator for the institution

COR

 

TLT/Flashlight Collection (description of each resource)

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II.1 The Flashlight Evaluation Handbook and Current Student Inventory includes advice on study design, articles on methods, case studies, and an indexed library of almost 500 validated questions for surveys, interviews, and focus groups. This edition is sent to subscribers in hard copy, with much of its also sent on CD-ROM.

The second edition of the Handbook, now almost complete, includes about fifteen specialized guides for using data to improve practice (e.g., classroom assessment, using data to get more value from course management systems, using data to get more value from eportfolios, accreditation self-studies, etc.). Click here to see the table of contents.

Online 2nd edition of Evaluation methodology section of the Handbook  The table of contents is not password protected but many of its sections require your institutional password.

The Flashlight Current Student Inventory is sent to each subscriber institution on a CD along with other subscriber materials

Download the Flashlight CSI (PDF files, password protected)

Order form for additional copies of the printed Handbook (First edition)

 

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II.2 Flashlight Online is a Web-based system for creating, administering and analyzing surveys.  Authors can search almost 500 validated items from the Flashlight Current Student Inventory, copy from a growing library of peer-reviewed surveys, and/or write their own questions.  Subscribing institutions can create an unlimited number of free authoring accounts for their staff and students. Flashlight Online can be used for program evaluation, accreditation studies, studies of the effectiveness of IT support services, quality assurance for distance learning programs, and studies by faculty of individual courses.  (Available only with TLT/Flashlight Network or Comprehensive Collection). Log-in page (institutions with Comprehensive or Network subscriptions can create accounts - ask your local contact for an account, or to help if you've lost your username or password)

Guide for using Flashlight Online system

Slides for a workshop for first-time users

Guide for Flashlight Online administrators

Briefing (PowerPoint slides) for Flashlight Online administrators and advanced users   (Your institutional contact can tell you the institution's username and password for these materials.)

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II.3 The Flashlight Cost Analysis Handbook explains how you can analyze the use of time, money and other resources as a first step to reducing stress on people and budgets. A second edition with many new case studies will be published early in 2003 (site license free for all subscribers), Flashlight Cost Analysis Handbook Second Edition (.pdf file) (Your institutional contact can tell you the institution's username and password for these materials.)

Order form for additional printed copies

Webcast briefing (archived) about cost analysis; interview with co-author of one of the case studies in the 2nd edition 

Watch our Events page for online workshops on cost analysis. Subscribers get discounts, and bigger discounts for groups.

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II.4 The Flashlight Faculty Inventory contains items that parallel many of the questions in the Current Student Inventory so that, for example, a study of faculty-student interaction can gather data from faculty as well as students using items with almost identical wording.

Faculty Inventory (web page Word document)   (Your institutional contact can tell you the institution's username and password for these materials.).

 

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II.5 The FIPSE-funded BeTA Project  (Better Teaching through Assessment) is developing a variety of resources and tools to help institutions improve  student feedback on courses and faculty: Flashlight Online 2.0 for matrix surveys, aid in training on how to design productive questions for surveys and how to interpret data, and other services. For information consult the BeTA home page or e-mail flashlight@tltgroup.org                
 


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