Friday, January 29, 2010
WWA Library, 2nd Floor Distance Learning Lab
Instructor: Steve Ehrmann, TLT Group Consultant
Time / Title / Group
9:00 a.m. – 10:00 a.m. Designing and Drafting Surveys - Faculty Learning Communities
10:30 a.m. – 11:30 a.m. Improving Academic Programs - QEP Pilot /Degree Program Coordinators
12:00 p.m. – 1:30 p.m. Designing and Drafting Surveys - Faculty and Staff
2:00 p.m. – 3:30 p.m. Designing and Drafting Surveys - Faculty/Staff/QEP Assessment Committee Improving Academic Programs
With Flashlight 2.0 you can:
- Adapt surveys and item banks created by other users, including authors at other institutions.
- Choose from a large collection of model surveys and validated questions created by Flashlight staff.
- Add to the power of your inquiry and subtract from survey fatigue by using matrix surveys.
- Use a variety of question types to create your own items, including rubrics.
- Institutions doing student course evaluation will see that it is less expensive and more flexible than alternatives.
- Faculty engaged in the scholarship of teaching and learning will discover exciting options for building on the research of their colleagues.
- It's great for faculty learning communities.
- Boost response rates (e.g., by tracking who has responded, while maintaining respondent anonymity.
- Display reports to respondents as soon as they complete a survey and then allow them to watch as more data comes in.
Learning to Use Flashlight Online 2.0
http://www.tltgroup.org/Flashlight/FLO2/Training1.htm
About Dr. Stephen C. Ehrmann...
For over thirty-five years Dr. Stephen C. Ehrmann has been working on three related issues:
1. how best to use technology to improve education
2. how to ask the right questions — how to use assessment to guide improvement in learning; and
3. how to help faculty in ways that spread those techniques.
Since 1993, Steve Ehrmann has directed the award-winning Flashlight Program on assessment and evaluation. Flashlight's tools, training, consulting and external evaluations help educators guide their own uses of technology, on- and off-campus. Dr. Ehrmann's work on Flashlight has recently focused on developing research strategies employing matrix surveys. In 1998, Steve Gilbert and Steve Ehrmann founded the Teaching, Learning, and Technology Group. The TLT Group has supported hundreds of institutions over the last 12 years, helping them use available, inexpensive, low risk technologies to improve teaching and learning.
Description of the Flashlight Program
The award-winning Flashlight Program provides Dillard with:
• Flashlight Online, a powerful, easy-to-use, web-based survey system
• materials for learning how to carry out effective studies (e.g., the Flashlight Evaluation Handbook); and
• services such as this campus visit. Flashlight consultants can also help us with program evaluation, assessment, and other tasks.
Flashlight Online is a unique survey tool. When using Flashlight Online, you can:
• Adapt surveys and item banks created by other users, including authors at other institutions;
• Choose from a large collection of model surveys and validated questions created by Flashlight staff;
• Reduce survey fatigue by combining several other surveys into a single matrix survey;
• Enrich feedback on student work by using rubrics;
• Do student course evaluation in a way that is less expensive and more flexible than alternatives.
• Engage in the scholarship of teaching and learning, especially by using faculty learning communities;
• Boost response rates (e.g., by tracking who has responded, while maintaining respondent anonymity;
• Develop benchmarking surveys and other collaborative research with other institutions;
• Display reports to respondents as soon as they complete a survey.
Stephen C. Ehrmann, Ph.D.
Director of the Flashlight Program for the Study and Improvement of Educational Uses of Technology - Vice President, The Teaching, Learning, and Technology Group,
***a not-for-profit organization***
Mobile: +1 240-606-7102
Office (main number): +1 301-270-8312
The TLT Group Blog: www.tlt-swg.blogspot.com
The TLT Group: http://www.tltgroup.org/
The Flashlight Program: www.tltgroup.org/flashlightP.htm
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