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Comparisons Between Schools
List of characteristics
List of the important characteristics that we feel might effect efforts to change learning outcomes with assessment and technology.
Information technology
infrastructure
rooms
computer availability for faculty
network
reliability
Technology support
direct help in the classroom
help with applications
web server support
web page/site construction
standards for web page construction (support for standard suite)
graphics
Assessment support
office of institutional research help
student data base access (such as GQL)
human subjects committee approval process
established departmental or programmatic assessment
Faculty development
opportunities
workshops on particular skills
assessment workshops
integrated pedagogy and assessment
stipends or course release
expectations for in-load faculty development
Faculty Roles and Rewards
course load
number of new course preparations per year
P&T or merit guidelines (do they include scholarship of teaching)
policy on intellectual property rights
incentives (overload, stipends, extra-section pay)
Faculty involvement
tenured faculty
pre-tenure tenure track faculty
fixed-term but multi-year contracts
adjuncts teaching how many sections and different courses per year
Institutional profiles
Fertile comparisons
1. School-to-school comparisons, for example PSU and ENMU
| PSU | ENMU | |
| technology | many faculty started using technology with presentation in Cramer 53 and Harrison Hall then moved to web stuff | history of good web support over the last few years and now faculty are interested in teaching in a large classroom |
| faculty involvement | mostly tenured faculty in project | mostly non-tenured but tenure track faculty |
| assessment | assessment only at course level | strong history of programmatic assessment |
| general studies | aggressive general education program that has impacted departments and faculty loads | considering new Gen Ed program |
| faculty load | mixed teaching load | new faculty developing and teaching full load |
2. We could also pick one characteristic and examine that characteristic at several schools.
| Web page authoring support & standards | |
| PSU | variable - no standards |
| Weber | help with authoring in Front Page supporting Front Page extensions on a server |
| ENMU | highly supported, and highly centralized |
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