SFSU Faculty Survey Best Practices旧金山州立大学教师的最佳实践.pptVIP

SFSU Faculty Survey Best Practices Laurie L. Meschke, PhD ACCESS Assessment Coordinator San Francisco State University Acknowledgements Gene Chelberg, Asst VP for Student Affairs Director of the DPRC Geoff Brown, ACCESS Project Manager, DPRC Instructional Materials workgroup members Charles O’Sullivan of BSS IT department Faculty respondents SFSU Bookstore, Carmelina la Petite, Café Rosso, and the Vista Room Assessment Objectives Exposure and attitudes re: students with disabilities Timely adoption of textbooks and readers LMS Digital or multimedia instructional materials Training received and desired Faculty Survey Basics First administered in Spring 2008 (n=59) Second round of survey September 24 to October 24, 2008 Approximately 300 randomly selected faculty Answers are anonymous Surveys must be completed in one setting to maintain anonymity Faculty Survey Basics Technology XHTML forms dynamically generated using PHP (v 5.2) Served using the Apache web server Data stored in PostgreSQL database System platforms Red Hat Enterprise Linus PostgreSQL Apache HTTP server PHP Faculty Survey Basics Form is generated Form sent to browser when user reaches form page User completes and submits form Data validated using PHP Not validated – form sent back to user with message Validated – data processed and stored in database Cost to date: $5,992 $700 (Web work) $5,292 (Consultant work) SFSU Nuances FACTORS Busy faculty Much autonomy Many non-tenure track faculty or lecturers STRATEGIES Three personalized email reminders Campus Memo Phone bank Tiny url: /3sntku Incentives Alternatives Qualitative interviews with select faculty Survey to ALL faculty Challenges Length of survey Competing with faculty schedules Anonymity Complete survey in one setting Reminders need to go to all faculty Scalability Survey software limited only by scalability of the platform Linus-Apache-Postgre-PHP solution is fairly robust; can be scaled further with extra hardware Unanticipated Benefits U