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Tag Archives: IR
Growth Mindset Data
My thanks to Dr. Farrell for the support of this project and the faculty members listed below who had their students (n=99) participate. This is a Stanford University project fostering growth mindset (GM) in students and comes out of the work by Carol … Continue reading
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Resilience and Math Project
Penn State York Math Lecturer Joan Smeltzer and I are working on a project with her students in Math 21, College Algebra, looking at the impact of direct instruction of resilience strategies on math scores. Read more about the project … Continue reading
Advanced Course in College Teaching
Faculty from Penn State York joined me and facilitators from the Schreyer Institute for Teaching Excellence, Drs. Chas Brua and Mary Ann Tobin, for a multi-session action research sequence of workshops in Spring 2017. Faculty identified pedagogical issues in their … Continue reading
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Western Campus Program January 15: Creating Positive Learning Environments with Resiliency and Mindfulness
Read more about this upcoming program! Creating Positive Learning Environments with Resiliency and Mindfulness
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ELLI Senior Benchmark Project gets Underway!
We’ve been using the Effective Lifelong Learning Inventory (ELLI) with students for many campus learning projects since 2013, and we’ve gotten some interesting and useful insights as a result. The most current (and perhaps final) project in the series is … Continue reading
Planned ELLI Senior Benchmarking Project + Resilience
ELLI, the Effective Lifelong Learning Inventory, is a measure of students’ lifelong learning attributes: resilience, changing & learning, creativity, strategic awareness, learning relationships, critical curiosity, and meaning making. I’ve been working on this campus project with my students and other … Continue reading
Branching Surveys in Qualtrics
This was easier to do than figuring out quotas, you just create blocks of questions (Add Block option at the end of each existing block) – Intro questions, condition 1, condition 2, etc, and after branch questions. Go to Survey … Continue reading
Wrapping up SoTL Projects for a Bit…
Canvas is coming as our new course management system which means I will be busy for the next year or so helping to get people’s ANGEL content migrated and converted and then the faculty trained on how to use Canvas … Continue reading
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Quotas in Qualtrics
I wanted to create a sign-up sheet for Canvas workshops that would limit participation to 10 people at any one session. Using Qualtrics, I created a survey question with multiple session options, then applied a quota and display logic to … Continue reading
Faculty Satisfaction Survey
As an extension of my work in HiED 830, Designing Institutional Research Studies, I was able to create and launch a faculty satisfaction survey on campus at our opening campus meetings in August 2015. I analyzed the data during the … Continue reading
Spring 16 Faculty Orientation
CANVAS Thanks to Jennifer Nesbitt, associate professor of English and Bill Cantor, senior instructor in IST for helping with a Canvas demonstration for the full- and part-time faculty at their respective orientations yesterday. Jen showed the use and advantages of … Continue reading
Lifelong Learning (ELLI) Project Updates
This fall, I had multiple lifelong learning projects underway on campus: Benchmarking – 189 first-year students in Math 021, ENGL 15, PSU 008, and LL ED 005 took ELLI (Effective Lifelong Learning Inventory) in August to provide benchmark data for … Continue reading
Getting Started with Studiocode
With equipment support from TLT and Media Commons, an adjunct professor on campus, Dr. Jorge Santiago-Blay, has been able to continue a research project with several students on the mating habits of flies. Using StudioCode software (Penn State has a … Continue reading
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Incorporating SEL and Lifelong Learning in the Reading Course
I’ve incorporated lifelong learning practices for 3 years into my college reading course and each time, we’ve seen statistically significant changes in lifelong learning dimensions (ELLI) for our students (Shaffer, Eshbach, & Santiago-Blay, 2015) – now after attending the social-emotional … Continue reading
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Grantseeking from A-Z
I was lucky enough to be able to attend a 4-day Grantseeking from A-Z workshop at PSU Harrisburg May 11-14th which included 2 excellent days of overviews from PSH faculty and staff from the Office of Research & Outreach followed … Continue reading
Getting Ready: Social & Emotional Learning (SEL) at Berkeley
Just gathering some background before going to the Greater Good Science Center’s Summer Institute on Social and Emotional Learning (SEL) for Educators June 26-July 1, 2015. Feeling lucky!
Tableau Free for Teachers & Students
Tableau is a powerful data visualization tool which they are offering free to instructors and students! Check out examples at the “Visual Gallery” http://www.tableau.com/learn/gallery http://www.tableau.com/academic/teaching http://www.tableau.com/academic/students I found one link in Lynda.psu.edu for Tableau – http://bit.ly/1z9k5Zf
Possible New IR Project: Stats Guidebook for SoTL Projects
As I work to finish up the Institutional Research Certificate, I’m trying to think of a valuable project that I could complete as an independent study. This is the project I’m asking to do: Develop a faculty guidebook with common … Continue reading
Fast Friends Project
This semester, I’ve been working with several faculty members in a small project to understand how well our students (at a commuter campus) are adjusting to life in college. Dr. Isaac Catt (CAS 100), Sheri Yoder (ESL 15), Ann Fetterman … Continue reading
Doing Mixed-Methods Research? Try Dedoose
Dedoose is for mixed-methods researchers (qual and quant) – recommended by my prof in HiED 830 Designing IR Studies – Check out the intro video – it looks quite powerful! http://www.dedoose.com/resources?TabNum=2#
Infographic of Current Projects
I can’t say I would recommend this infographic tool by venngage – in order to actually get your graphic, you have to purchase a premium account for 9.95 as an auto-recurring payment…. ooooh no! I’ll keep looking – stay tuned… … Continue reading
MD Association of Institutional Research Fall Conference – Civitas Learning
I attended the MD Association of Institutional Research fall conference at Notre Dame of Maryland University on 10/24/14 and have a few good things to share! The overall theme was using data to improve student success. * * 1) Marie … Continue reading
GRIT and New Student Orientation
We are trying out the use of the GRIT survey (Duckworth @ U. of Pennsylvania – https://sites.sas.upenn.edu/duckworth) with our new students. Every student coming through New Student Orientation (NSO) this year is watching the Duckworth Ted.com video and taking the … Continue reading
First Institutional Research Projects
As a result of my coursework at PSU (cert in Institutional Research) and the Data & Decisions Academy (AIR), I was able to make some serious headway on my first institutional research projects for my campus: 1) cohort study of … Continue reading
Data & Decisions Academy – Retention
Our campus has been focusing on retention for the last year, and so I threw my hat in the ring to try to figure out how I could merge our campus needs with some training in this area in terms … Continue reading