Concrete Steps: Form Good Evaluation Questions

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Concrete Steps Form Good Evaluation Questions
Create Online Surveys

• Katharine Mason
• Jack Green Musselman

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The BeTA Project objectives

• Objective 1
• Disseminate a visible knowledge mapping
  strategy for developing institutional consensus
  about good practices in teaching and learning

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Objective 2

• Engaging students in their role as evaluators
• Authentication issues
• Citizenship issues
• Response rates

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Increasing Response Rates

• What do you do at your institutions?

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Steps we have taken for RR

• From Website to Push e-mail
• Reminders
• Posters
• Focus Groups
• The Magic Bullet
• (the thing that boosts response rates more than
  anything)

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Faculty Members

• Stress Importance
• Remind the students
• Tell how they use it
• SHOW how they use it

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Objective 3

• Develop a new, web-based survey tool that makes
  administration of a multi-tiered evaluation
  process possible

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Objective 4

• Give administrators tools and information to
  encourage the formative use of course
  evaluations, while still providing information
  that can be used for personnel decisions

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acknowledgement

• The BeTA Project
• (BEtter Teaching through Assessment)
• is sponsored in part by the Fund for the
  Improvement of Postsecondary Education (FIPSE),
  U.S. Department of Education

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Mapping Exercise

• On a blank sheet of paper make a large circle
  taking about a quarter of the page
• In the circle describe a powerful learning
  experience.

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Mapping-- Learner

• Describe an educational experience where you were
  the learner and you felt that you learned a lot
  about something
• (you went away from the experience feeling that
  you would remember and be able to use what you
  learned)

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Add detail

• Who was there?
• What were the circumstances?
• When was this?
• Where were you (and others)?
• Why was this powerful for you? -write any detail
  that helps to understand what was going on and
  why you integrated learning

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Mapping-- Instructor

• Describe an educational experience where you were
  the instructor and you felt that the
  students/learners learned a lot about something
  
• (they went away from the experience feeling that
  they would remember and be able to use what they
  learned)

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Themes from the Literature

• 7 principles of good practice
• Student retention (Tinto, Astin, PT)
• Teaching and Learning
• Collaborative/cooperative
• Hands-on
• active

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• Katharine Mason- Research Coordinator
• mason_at_tltgroup.org
• 512-428-1286