>From owner-trad-l@listserv.vt.edu Sun Dec 15 16:46:35 1996 Received: (from mailadm@localhost) by sable.cc.vt.edu (8.6.12/8.6.12) id QAA11800 for fox@fox.cs.vt.edu; Sun, 15 Dec 1996 16:46:35 -0500 Received: from ipe.cc.vt.edu (ipe.cc.vt.edu [128.173.4.8]) by sable.cc.vt.edu (8.6.12/8.6.12) with ESMTP id QAA03905; Sun, 15 Dec 1996 16:46:33 -0500 Received: from ipe.cc.vt.edu (ipe.cc.vt.edu [128.173.4.8]) by ipe.cc.vt.edu (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id QAA56675; Sun, 15 Dec 1996 16:46:10 -0500 Received: from LISTSERV.VT.EDU by LISTSERV.VT.EDU (LISTSERV-TCP/IP release 1.8b) with spool id 1426431 for TRAD-L@LISTSERV.VT.EDU; Sun, 15 Dec 1996 16:46:10 -0500 Received: from sable.cc.vt.edu (sable.cc.vt.edu [128.173.16.30]) by ipe.cc.vt.edu (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id QAA36186 for ; Sun, 15 Dec 1996 16:46:09 -0500 Received: from [128.173.29.222] (vtcoe.async.vt.edu [128.173.29.222]) by sable.cc.vt.edu (8.6.12/8.6.12) with SMTP id QAA20356 for ; Sun, 15 Dec 1996 16:46:04 -0500 X-Sender: wiley@mail.vt.edu (Unverified) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Message-Id: Date: Sun, 15 Dec 1996 16:46:04 -0500 Reply-To: "Terry M. Wildman" Sender: trad-l Discussion List From: "Terry M. Wildman" Subject: survey presentations, Wednesday, 4-5:30pm To: Multiple recipients of list TRAD-L Hello everyone, this is a reminder of my earlier invitation to attend a research presentation that my "College Teaching" students are doing this Wednesday, at 4:00 pm. The discussion should be pertinent to our committee. Here is the context again. Each time I teach this course on college teaching, I try to get the participants involved in some investigation concerning teaching and learning within the Tech community. This semester we decided to investigate students' perceptions of ACADEMIC SUCCESS, following the major program that John Fulton put into place this semester. To avoid a long story here the class (15 graduate students) organized themselvs into 4 groups and and developed surveys (in three of the cases) designed to investigate students' perceptions of academic success and the role that Virginia Tech plays in supporting their success. One group surveyed undergraduates...about 400. Another did telephone surveys of alumni...about 50. A third surveyed graduate students..about 85. And a fourth group surveyed graduate students about the role that technology plays in their academic life...I think they have about 180 cases. In short, the group as a whole has a fair amount of data...and the issues they are addressing do relate nicely to our self study discussion. The shortcomings are that the data can best be viewed as pilot work....the methodologies vary across the four groups, and the surveys, if used again would likely be modified in substantial ways. Nevertheless, if you think spending roughly an hour and a half with us at the end of the day on Wednesday would be potentially useful and interesting, we'd love to have you visit with us. The location is 220 War Memorial Hall. To get there go past the information desk as you enter the gym, then go up to the second floor (elevator or stairs), and down the Hallway till you arrive at the window overlooking the pool. As soon as you get to the pool overlook go into the computer lab on the left..this is 220. The classroom is inside the computer lab. If you don't mind, please let me know if you plan to stop by on Wednesday. The classroom is small and I need to arrange for a few extra seats. An e-mail note would be fine (wiley@vt.edu) Thanks and I hope to see you on Wednesday. Terry Wildman