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SFSU Faculty Survey Best Practices

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

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SFSU Faculty Survey Best Practices

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  1. SFSU Faculty Survey Best Practices Laurie L. Meschke, PhD ACCESS Assessment Coordinator San Francisco State University

  2. 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

  3. 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

  4. 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

  5. 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

  6. 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)

  7. FACTORS Busy faculty Much autonomy Many non-tenure track faculty or lecturers STRATEGIES Three personalized email reminders Campus Memo Phone bank Tiny url: http://tinyurl.com/3sntku Incentives SFSU Nuances

  8. Alternatives • Qualitative interviews with select faculty • Survey to ALL faculty

  9. Challenges • Length of survey • Competing with faculty schedules • Anonymity • Complete survey in one setting • Reminders need to go to all faculty

  10. 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

  11. Unanticipated Benefits • Unexpected findings • 75% of faculty had used at text; over half had ordered on time • Less than 10% had had accessibility training • Accessible audiovideo material used by 12 of 31 faculty • Fewer than 20% of faculty who share particular file types in course knew how to assess accessibility • PDF, word, web site, PPT, and discussion forums most common

  12. Modifications • Current • Added more dropdown menu options to reduce write-ins • Future • Shorten • Delete some technologies • Specific annual focus • Open to all faculty or greater randomly selected group

  13. Opening Page of Survey

  14. First Page of Survey Field turns pink to indicate as necessary and skipped Drop down menus to ease completion Required fields indicated as such

  15. Contact Laurie L. Meschke Ph: 415.405.3705 Email: LMeschke@sfsu.edu Geoff Brown Ph: 415.338.2377 Email: GBrown@sfsu.edu

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