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Student Course
Evaluation Main Page
The TLT Group provides its Network members
and others with a variety of kinds of consulting services to
assist with improving the quality and effectiveness of
student course evaluation. Our approach is based on a number
of assumptions outlined on the student course evaluation
home page. Our services include:
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Advice/feedback on locally-developed
strategies for making the institution's approach to
student course evaluation more valid, efficient and
influential. We can suggest how your institution can
develop a more positive relationship between student
course evaluation, scholarship of teaching and learning,
and an institutional 'culture of evidence.' In
addition to its internal value, this kind of systematic
approach can be valuable in working with accreditors.
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Helping your planning group deal with
volatile issues around educational goals, program
evaluation, and personnel evaluation.
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Assistance with developing new survey
items and data gathering procedures that reflect
people's values and the findings of educational
research.
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Online workshops to help your
planners learn about the state of the art in student
course evaluation, including online student course
evaluation. One important topic: training for faculty
and administrators in how to 'ask the right questions'
on such surveys.
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Assistance in devising procedures for
a matrix approach to student course evaluation
(i.e., each section receives a survey tailored to its
needs, with questions from appropriate sources for that
course, including the instructor). For example a writing
intensive course taught in classroom 107 might include
questions about lecturing and online discussions
(institutional questions on two themes chosen by the
instructor as important elements of how that course is
taught), questions about room 107 (which was recently
renovated; these questions go to all classes taught in
this room), questions about the writing assignments and
feedback (questions which are in the forms for all
sections that are designated 'writing-intensive') and
questions by the instructor for this section (the
answers to which are only seen by that instructor). For
more on matrix surveys and how Flashlight Online 2.0 has
been developed to support this approach,
click here.
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Flashlight Online, a web-based
survey system with some distinctive features for online
or paper evaluation of student courses. Most important:
Flashlight Online is a web service shared by authors at
about 100 institutions. Rather than starting with a
blank page, authors can adapt or adopt surveys, feedback
forms, and item banks developed by others.
Flashlight
Online 1.0 can be used in small to moderate sized
programs and institutions.
Flashlight
Online 2.0 has been designed to support large-scale
student course evaluation programs.
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Maryland 20912
Phone:
301.270.8312/Fax: 301.270.8110
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To talk about our work
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contact: Sally Gilbert |
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