clickers > attendance

statement of the problem: on 9feb09, many more of us were logged-in to CPS than were present in hp II.
objective: encourage self-regulating community. moderate class conversation.
class conversation 18feb09, highlights: overview. met with lots of upset students, instructors, deans. we aren't as anonymous as we think. three facets of involvement: those who lent remotes, those who accepted them, those who saw it happen.

asked 'what recommendations can we relay to admin for how to proceed?'
some replies: this experience as a warning is sufficient. admin should provide clear policy of crime/punishment. admin should provide overview for raising/resolving allegations.

asked 'how can we deal with this within our group?'
some replies: we know better than to have done this. those involved feel remorse. learn from it. we won't do it again.

recommendations: reaffirmed mantra 'if you see something, say something' (approach the person directly or talk to officer of class, instructor, admin, etc). take courage in that the majority of the class supports this action, as established by vote early last fall.
limitations: approximately 125 in attendance. few statements.
accolades: because dealing with information of this nature is 'inconvenient' requiring much effort to resolve, many of the faculty are unwilling to expose improprieties. kudos to dr sehl for keeping us honest.
outcomes: TBD. lots of us were discussing the theme throughout the day.

met with deans

in their many years of deaning, none had seen a student-generated report like the one we all contributed to. over and over: ‘thank you,’ ‘i have confidence in this report,’ ‘this is fantastic.’ our interest in high quality instructors and course content came across very strongly.
the report (survey, comments/recommendations) was not intended to go only to the top. soon, class officers will have met with all our instructors, course directors, department chairs, and deans to address the quality of instruction at every level.
deans have already started meeting with department chairs to reaffirm our feedback.

met with bucklan

class officers met with dr bucklan last week to review with him the results of our survey. we focused our discussion on comments directed to gds row instructors.

met with schiff

class officers met with dr schiff last week to review with him the results of our survey. he was appreciative for the feedback. we focused our discussion on the statement ‘materials (visual aids, lecture slides) and activities were effective’ to which over half of respondents ‘very strongly disagreed’ despite the fact that three-fourths responded that they attend class either 75% or 100% of the time.
we asked what other material and resources he could provide to meet this need.
he offered to:
a. provide references (particularly visual helps) from vitalbook
b. provide practice questions that involve calculations
c. consider providing a ‘key-concepts’ manual/bulleted list