HIGHLIGHTS prepared for DEIT at LBCC, Tuesday, October 9, 2001

• Flashlight Evaluation Handbook, a 70-page booklet which outlines a process and includes an overview of these resources which are a part of the program:
  • collection of evaluation tools
    • Current Student Inventory contains items to assess teaching, learning, and technology; student satisfaction, learning outcomes (using 14 widely accepted outcomes, such as using time productively or rich and rapid feedback), student experiences, and demographics
    • Faculty Inventory to help us encourage"best practices"
    • Cost Analysis Manual to assess what technology brings to LBCC in terms of cost/benefit analysis (net costs)
    • ³Completer Inventory"to gather information from people who have completed a course of study and a"Supervisor Inventory"to gather information from their supervisors
    • Distance Education Site Staff Inventory
    • Authoring and Remote Data Analysis Systems (using web and CD-rom so Flashlight can assist in analyzing data for LBCC)
  • case studies that support development of more effective evaluation tools
  • access to tested, valid survey items for student surveys
  • protocols for interviews, focus groups, and resources for consulting.
• LBCC could use this resource to:
  • Help us select technology to improve courses, programs and instruction
  • Help department/college clarify our direction on using technology
  • Develop surveys using nationally validated questions for staff and student input on technology-related issues
  • Develop consistent evaluation of our distributed programs, using comparative data from other schools
  • Support accreditation. Help us answer such questions as: Has student retention improved? Has technology helped or hindered our basic goal of improving teaching and learning? Has student"time on task"increased?
• For more information: http://www.tltgroup.org/programs/flashlight.html

Ehrmann, Stephen C. and Robin Etter Zuniga, The Flashlight Evaluation Handbook. Sponsored by the Western Cooperative for Educational Telecommunications, supported by a FIPSE grant, and published by the Teaching, Learning and Technology Group (TLT) and the American Association for Higher Education, November 1997.

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