Evaluating Our Work
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EDLI is offering mid-semester course feedback with Mid-FACT
Every instructor wants to create a meaningful and engaging learning experience, but how do we know if students genuinely connect with the material? Traditional student evaluations often come at the end of the semester, leaving educators with valuable insights—but no opportunity to act on them for the current students. This is where MidFACT—Midsemester Feedback for…
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Listening to Students When It Matters: How MidFACT can Transform Teaching at MSU
MidFACT—Midsemester Feedback for Actionable Course Transformation Every instructor wants to create a meaningful and engaging learning experience, but how do we know if students genuinely connect with the material? Traditional student evaluations often come at the end of the semester, leaving faculty with valuable insights—but no opportunity to act on them for the current students.…
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Evaluating Workshops: A Practical Guide for Practitioners
Recently, we employed a comprehensive evaluation framework to appraise a multi-day workshop on integrating generative AI into course design. In this article, we will walk you through the evaluation and data collection procedures and reflect on how such evaluation studies can aid practitioners in refining their workshops. We started by selecting the framework where, in this…
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EDLI’s evaluation of Packback provides insight for future software evaluation processes
Packback Questions is an AI-enhanced and D2L-integrated discussion forum with a focus on increasing student engagement by encouraging learners to ask critical questions and give meaningful feedback. The EDLI team has conducted an evaluation using data from Fall 2022 to assess how Packback impacted students’ learning across metrics of D2L log-ins as a measure of…
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EDLI Program Evaluation Plan
Overview: With a central mission to enhance the teaching and learning effectiveness in the online or multimodal settings at MSU, it is of critical importance to develop a sound plan for evaluating what and how the EDLI team has been and is building towards achieving its vision as well as the core teaching and learning…
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Manual for Understanding and Using SIRS Evaluation
Overview: The official end-of-semester student evaluation of instruction is one of the most commonly used methods in higher education to evaluate teaching effectiveness. Here at MSU, the data collected from the Student Instructional Rating System (SIRS) are given a considerable weight as an indicator of teaching effectiveness, and often factored into personnel decisions (tenure, promotion)…
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EDLI Fellows Evaluation Model
Overview: We have developed an evaluation model for the Fellows or Consultation work we do with faculty and programs. The general components of the model are based on showing impacts across a broad spectrum of teaching and learning work. Outcomes: This model helps us plan and frame the evaluation of our Fellows or Consultation work with…
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Software Evaluation – Conceptual Model
Overview: To evaluate the effects of a given software or educational technological tool, we developed a conceptual model that depicts the key areas for software evaluation, and the relationships between our software evaluation work and the relevant stakeholders on campus. Outcomes: This model helps us plan and frame the evaluation of specific software or educational technological…
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PlayPosit Evaluation
Overview: We collaborated with the Department of Physiology, the College of Nursing, and the MSU Libraries, to design and conduct an evaluation for a pilot use of PlayPosit. Outcomes: The results from the PlayPosit evaluation project helped our collaborating departments to create and conduct several professional development workshops and consultations with participating faculty and prospective…