GEORGIA HIGHLANDS COLLEGE Office of Institutional Effectiveness, Planning

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GEORGIA HIGHLANDS COLLEGEOffice of
Institutional Effectiveness, Planning
Research SURVEY RESEARCH

• A presentation of the Office of Institutional
  Effectiveness, Planning Research _at_ GHC
• Presented by Dr. Fitzpatrick U. Anyanwu, Chief
  IResearch Officer Director

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"It's not what we don't know that gives us
trouble. It's what we know that ain't so." - Will
RogersKnowing What Students Think
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1. Student Survey of Instruction (SSI)
  Paper Pencil Version - Given to all students
in all GHC traditional classes. Therefore, a
student might get this more than
once.   Web-based Online Version - Student Survey
of Instruction (SSI) Given to all students in
all GHC online classes. Therefore, a student
might get this more than once (Current version
used by Health Sciences Division to be
revised).  
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• Except for special circumstances, requiring a
  special request and approval,
• Student Survey of Instruction (SSI) is to be
  administered 2 weeks after each mid-term (Except
  when special permission is granted for specific
  courses that fall outside of the normal schedule)
• Duration for all survey administration (to start
  and close) should be 2 weeks (Except when special
  permission is granted for peculiar circumstance)
• Completed survey sheets should be sealed in an
  envelope immediately after administration and
  returned to the appropriate office/collection box
• The survey responses for each class should be
  returned immediately (or within 24 hours) after
  it has been administered
• All surveys (packaged with identifying
  markers-division, and within division, class,
  instructor, date, time, location, etc) should be
  sent to the Office of Institutional
  Effectiveness, Planning Research (OIEPR) within
  1 week of receipt
• After all the preparation of the response sheets,
  data cleaning, collating, scanning, and analysis,
  the results should be made available not later
  than 4 weeks after the start of the next term
  following the administration term (Exceptions are
  made for special cases when circumstances warrant
  that a request is made so that the results of a
  specific course(s) to available before all the
  processes are completed).

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• 2. Part-time Faculty Survey - Given only to
  designated GHC part-time faculty.
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• 3. Climate Survey Given to all GHC full-time
  faculty and staff, including academic and
  non-academic administrators.
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• 4. Presently Attending Student Survey (PASS)
  Given in class, to all students enrolled at GHC
  in the fall and spring semesters respectively.
  Usually, in a single semester, a student might
  get this more than once. However, we have now
  devised a means whereby we are able to redo how
  this has been done in the past, and built a
  database to select a student only once.
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• Annual Planning Evaluation/Assessment
  Documentation Required of all GHC programs of
  study Submitted to the Faculty Coordinator for
  Assessment (Alan Nichols) Due dates Oct 1 (New
  Year Plan, Feb 1 (Progress Follow-up Report),
  and June 1 (End-of-Year Report)

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•   Some Issues of Concern in Survey Research
• Clean Data, Environment, Consistency, Valid,
  Reliable, Trusted, etc
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• Future of Institutionally Mandated Surveys at
  GHC
• We intend to migrate to new survey software
  (Class Climate, by Scantron Corp.) in the fall of
  2009. A pilot run of selected courses will be
  administered survey sheets produced with this new
  software in the spring of 2009 as a test
  comparison with the current survey development
  software packages (Bubble Publishing, Form Shop,
  Top Score by Scanning Dynamics).

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• AS WE CONTINUE TO IMPROVE THIS PROCESS WE WANT TO
  ENSURE THAT WE ARE
• COLLECTING THE RIGHT DATA,
• USING CLEAN DATA,
• CONSISTENT IN OUR PROCESSES PRESERVING DATA
  INTEGRITY,
• USING VALID PROCESSES ACCURATE DATA , AND
• USING RELIABLE PROCESSES DATA TRANSFORMATION
• ETC.
• FOR THIS VERY IMPORTANT PROCESS,
• PLEASE ASSIST US IN CONTINUING TO MAKE THIS
  PROCESS AN EFFICIENT, EFFECTIVE, AND SUCCESSFUL
  ONE.

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