Data, Data Everywhere. What's an Educator to Think? Using Data Driven Curriculum Changes in a High Impact Composition Course Sequence
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2019-11-06
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While using data in higher education has become an emerging trend Drake and Walz, 2018), some studies question its effectiveness in improving teaching and learning, especially in early-term courses (Cox, et al., 2017). One method to improve effectiveness involves creating a faculty data culture (Hora, Bouwma-Gearhart, and Joon Park, 2017). The Composition Department at Purdue University Global has established a culture where academic leadership, course leads, curriculum, and faculty work together to collect and analyze data through metrics, external evaluations, research pipeline projects, pilots, and other methods. The department uses the data to identify and address challenges through course revisions and standard practices for feedback, outreach, etc. New data is then used to evaluate the effectiveness of changes. The presentation will examine how the development of this culture has successfully improved student success, learning, and experience while giving faculty an increased sense of ownership over course content, instruction, and assessment.
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