Faculty development workshop 06 - 07 August

The second day of faculty development workshops at the national campus began with program assessment summaries. That afternoon the workshop considered the assessment data and worked on planning and reflection. On Wednesday morning the workshop looked at the suggested program schedule in the catalog.

The workshop evaluation asked faculty to respond to prompts by agreeing or disagreeing with the prompt. The responses were converted to numeric values:

  1. Strongly disagree
  2. Disagree
  3. Neutral
  4. Agree
  5. Strongly agree

With 18 responses recorded, averages were calculated for each prompt by session. The overall average was 4.35. In general faculty agreed or strongly agreed with the prompts. Differences in the means between prompts were not large. 


 In the Tuesday morning session, the last prompt on the evaluation was the lowest rating for any of the prompts across both days. This was a result of the prompt being the only prompt to receive multiple responses of neutral. 17% of the responses were neutral. The remaining 83% agreed or strongly agreed with the prompt.

Comments were solicited for the morning session:

  • informative
  • It is good to see all PC sharing and updating all faculty about their programs
  • On Tuesday was really frustrating because it's like everything was scattered around in my head. lol 
  • Really informative 
  • Some of the presentations were very clear and understandable while some are basically well done


The Tuesday afternoon session saw slightly higher levels of agreement.

 


The Wednesday morning session also saw general agreement with the prompts. This session included the highest rated prompt. 


The difference in the means between sessions was not significant as the margin of error for the mean at a 95% level of confidence was 0.08. 


Aggregating by prompt also did not reveal statistically significant differences except for the last aggregation. Making changes, carrying out plans, and resolving issues fell just below the lower bound on the 95% confidence interval for the overall mean. 

Comments

List two things you liked most about the Tuesday and Wednesday sessions

Business and liberal arts presentations

  • Faculty have lots of times for raising their questions
  • how to work on PSLO and CSLO
  • Information sharing 
  • Learning new things 
  • Making connections, good food 
  • Pas assessment presentation
  • Presentation in the Telecomm and Electronics id great
  • presentations and food
  • The discussions were all welcomed and answered satisfactorily.
  • The presentations and the sharing
  • The presentations on the program reviews were lively with open questions and discussions. 

List two recommendations for improvement of the Tuesday and Wednesday sessions

  • all is fair
  • More time
  • Planning and working together as much as possible 
  • We should be out on the last day to have our meeting off campus

What areas do you want to see covered in future faculty development workshops?

  • All good
  • Assessment 
  • Course updating in the working file and Nuventive updating as well as canvas
  • Financial aspect especially, faculty funding for professional development if available. 
  • more on nuventive
  • new innovation in teaching and instruction
  • Nuventive
  • same things 

Any other comments on the three day workshop?

  • I enjoyed the last two days!
  • It is always good to have the first day campus wide and then split.
  • It was excellent because I did learn a lot from this workshop.
  • Please let surveyors know that attended sessions were Monday and Tuesday only. 

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