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Calvin, Ogulcan, Rosa Agenda 12/16/14

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Agenda #5

Skype meeting

Date: December 12, 2014

Time: 7:20 PM to 8:20 PM

Place: Online virtual meeting via Skype

Meeting called by:  Calvin Lo

Attendees: Calvin Lo, Ogulcan Gol, Rosa Cedano

 

Objective: To discuss about the feedbacks from Prof. Belli and how will make those changes.

Agenda:

7:20 PM          Went over all the feedbacks we received from Prof. Belli

7:35 PM          Created to do list based on all the comments from the first draft.

9:30 PM          Discuss how we plan to organize our final write up

9:35 PM          Fixed the cover pages and Table of content

9:50 PM          Completed meeting

Skype meeting

Date: December 13, 2014

Time: 6:30 PM to 12:45 AM

Place: Online virtual meeting via Skype

Meeting called by:  Calvin Lo

Attendees: Calvin Lo, Ogulcan Gol, Rosa Cedano

 

Objective: To discuss about the feedbacks from Prof. Belli and how will make those changes.

Agenda:

6:30 PM          Reviewed our to do list and determined and assigned who will do what

6:45 PM          Expanded on the introduction of the final write up.

7:40 PM          Restructured data analysis section and results section based on feedback

8:40 PM          Introduced context for the official student teacher evaluation for City Tech faculty

9:50 PM          Worked on the final proposal.

10:20 PM        Updated the annotated bibliography appendix.

11:20 PM        Created new appendices for graphs/visuals, final survey and others.

12:45 AM        Completed meeting

 

 

 

 

 

Skype meeting

Date: December 15, 2014

Time: 3:00 PM to 9:00 PM

Place: Online virtual meeting via Skype

Meeting called by:  Calvin Lo

Attendees: Calvin Lo, Ogulcan Gol, Rosa Cedano

 

Objective: To fix all issues from the first draft base on the feedback

Agenda:  

3:00 PM          Reviewed our to do list to see what we has left to do

3:15 PM          Worked working on the Memorandum

4:40 PM          Fixed Work cited section as MLA Format

4:55 PM          Added more details on the conclusion as well as the results

5:35 PM          Finished the editing all the appendices

7:10 PM          Worked on the PowerPoint Presentation

8:20 PM          Finished the to do list

9:00 PM          Completed meeting

Meeting with Prof. Belli

Date: December 16, 2014

Time: 1:00 PM to 1:30 PM

Place: Prof. Belli’s office

Meeting called by:  Calvin Lo

Attendees: Calvin Lo, Ogulcan Gol, Rosa Cedano

 

Objective: To have a feedback of our memorandum and Data analysis.

Agenda:

1:00 PM          Explained our concerned with the memorandum and Data Analysis

1:20 PM          Prof. Belli gave us a clear feedback on what should be done.

1:25 PM          Prof. Belli made us clear which direction to go.

1:30 PM          Completed meeting

 

 

 

 

Skype meeting

Date: December 16, 2014

Time: 6:00 PM to 1:00 AM

Place: Online virtual meeting via Skype

Meeting called by:  Calvin Lo

Attendees: Calvin Lo, Ogulcan Gol, Rosa Cedano

 

Objective: To finalized our project and submitted to Dropbox.

Agenda:

6:00 PM          Created a new memorandum

6:45 PM          Update Data Analysis

7:40 PM          Update the Results section

8:40 PM          Added more details on the conclusion as well as the results

9:45 PM          General review of the Final Project

10:20 PM        Join all the data in one paper

11:40 PM        Worked on the PowerPoint Presentation

1:00 AM          Completed meeting

 

Calvin, Ogulcan, Rosa Meeting Minutes 12/16/14

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Online virtual meeting via Skype – 12 December 2014

Meeting called to order at 7:20 PM by Calvin

Members present:

Rosa Cedano, Ogulcan Gol

Reading of Agenda

To discuss how to improve on our feedbacks received by Professor Belli.

Discussion:

7:20 PM           Discuss the feedbacks we received from Prof. Belli.

7:35 PM           Created to do list based on all the comments from the first draft.

9:30PM                        Discuss how we plan to organize our final write up.

9:35PM           Fixed the cover pages and Table of content

Adjourned at 9:50 PM

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Online virtual meeting via Skype – 13 December 2014

Meeting called to order at 6:30 PM by Calvin

Members present:

Rosa Cedano, Ogulcan Gol

Reading of Agenda

To discuss about the feedbacks from Prof. Belli and how will make those changes

Discussion:

6:30 PM           Reviewed our to do list and determined and assigned who will do what

6:45 PM           Expanded on the introduction of the final write up.

7:40 PM           Restructured data analysis section and results section based on feedback.

8:40 PM          Introduced context for the official student teacher evaluation for City Tech faculty

 

 

9:50 PM           Worked on the final proposal.

10:20 PM        Updated the annotated bibliography appendix.

11:20 PM        Created new appendices for graphs/visuals, final survey and others.

 

Adjourned at 12:45 AM

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Online virtual meeting via Skype – 15 December 2014

Meeting called to order at 3:00 PM by Calvin

Members present:

Rosa Cedano, Ogulcan Gol

Reading of Agenda

To fix all issues from the first draft based on the feedback

Discussion:

3:00 PM          Reviewed our to do list to see what we has left to do

3:15 PM          Worked working on the Memorandum

4:40 PM          Fixed Works cited section as MLA Format

4:55 PM          Added more details on the conclusion as well as the results

5:35 PM          Finished the editing all the appendices

7:10 PM          Worked on the PowerPoint Presentation

8:20 PM          Finished the to do list

 

Adjourned at 9:00 PM

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Online virtual meeting via Skype – 16 December 2014

Meeting called to order at 1:00 PM by Calvin

Members present:

Rosa Cedano, Ogulcan Gol

Reading of Agenda

To go over the feedback of our memorandum and data analysis with our meeting with Professor Belli.

Discussion:

1:00 PM          Explained our concerned with the memorandum and Data Analysis

1:20 PM          Prof. Belli gave us a clear feedback on what should be done.

1:25 PM          Prof. Belli made us clear which direction to go.

 

Adjourned at 1:30 PM

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Online virtual meeting via Skype – 16 December 2014

Meeting called to order at 6:00 PM by Calvin

Members present:

Rosa Cedano, Ogulcan Gol

Reading of Agenda

To finalize our project and submit it to Dropbox.

Discussion:

6:00 PM          Created a new memorandum

6:45 PM          Update Data Analysis

7:40 PM          Update the Results section

8:40 PM          Added more details on the conclusion as well as the results

9:45 PM          General review of the Final Project

10:20 PM        Join all the data in one paper

11:40 PM        Worked on the PowerPoint Presentation

 

Adjourned at 1:00 AM

 

 

Calvin, Ogulcan, Rosa Progress Report #6

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Progress Report #6

12/10/14 – 12/17/14

Immediately after the discussion we had with Professor Belli on 12/10/14, we needed to immediately start revising our write up and find a new deliverable. Considering the amount of time that we had, it was hardly any. We however were lucky because we knew the direction that we were going.

We immediately started to work up on our write up on our skype meeting on 12/12/14. Thankfully we were in the right direction because of our class colleagues and our professor. What we did was remove the unnecessary components that wasn’t needed and afterwards started to input our new ones. We also created a to do list that showed what stuff need to be done. We fixed up our cover pages and table of content and went on from there.

After the Skype meeting we had on 12/13/14, we were still revising our write up from the comments that we received from professor belli. What we did was reviewed our to do list and determined who will do what assignment that we came up with. This was a great idea because it kept us in sync and everything went smoothly. We also started to work on our introduction and we started to re construct the data analysis section and results based on our feedback. Finally before the meeting ended, we decided to introduce context for the official student teacher evaluation for City Tech faculty.

During our next synchronous online meeting, we progressed on our write up and fixed all issues from the first draft based on the feedback. We checked up on our to do list and looked at what was left to do. We also started to work on our memorandum. This was needed to be done asap considering we needed to show it to Professor Belli ASAP for revision. We also fixed our works cited section in the correct MLA format. Before our meeting ended, we worked on editing the appendices and added more details to th conclusion and results.

With our meeting with Professor Belli on 12/16/14, we had a clear sense of exactly what to do. First we needed to start revising our memorandum because it was clearly missing some key factors. We weren’t quite clear on how to do our data analysis and luckily professor Belli was generous enough to help us in the right direction. We had a skype meeting that same night and created a new memorandum and updated our data analysis and the results section. In addition, we also added extra details to our conclusion and finished our presentation for our last class.

Please complete our survey

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Fellow classmates,

Can you please take 5 mins to complete our new survey? We promise it is not 10 mins long and we need all the data we can get since time is running out. We thank you for your time.

Here is the link:

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/18y1eWql-6VWv_INEaB-xoiEv1RrasDiMu2zEPvlkmLU/viewform?usp=send_form

 

 

Regards,

Calvin, Ogulcan, Rosa

Calvin, Ogulcan, Rosa Rationale for survey REVISED

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There are many surveys about student experience at any educational institution. However, most of these surveys are very broad and don’t focus on empowering students to express themselves fully. Most of the time students don’t give the most candid answers and often times they can be quite biased. Our survey aims to identify what aspects of faculty matters the most to students at City Tech and aspects of faculty the school lacks. From the responses, we hope to gain a bigger picture on what students are satisfied with in terms of faculty and what the faculty needs to further improve on.

 

There were numerous revisions that we went through in order to achieve the correct focus for our survey. In the beginning, our intention was to create a survey purely to evaluate the effectiveness of professors similar to how ratemyprofessor, ratemyteachers or operates. However, the problem that existed was that the feedback and ratings that students give to professors are too, subjective, too general, and the data that we were to receive would not be accurate and would not really want to measure what we intended it to.

 

Our second revision was focused on student satisfaction on different aspects of the school such as education, faculty and services. However, the problem that we encountered was that there were too many variables to take into account. Therefore, it made the survey too lengthy for students and it was too similar to already existing surveys such as CUNY AIR and the NSSE. We did not want to create an inferior survey that would measure close to the same thing. Another obstacle we encountered with it was that we always asked ourselves what was the purpose? This made it really difficult to proceed with this revision.

 

Going back to the drawing board for a new direction with our project, we researched on teacher evaluation surveys, what they measure, what they intend to measure, and why they aren’t as effective as they can be, and potential solutions to these problems. What we wanted to do was to create a new version of the City Tech teacher evaluation survey but because of political reasons, were not able to fully pursue it and have it be the main focus of our project.

 

What we have now is a survey with open ended questions with flexible answers that asks questions that pertain to faculty. How this differs from the original ideas we had is that the questions are much more meaningful, and they are much more specific. What we hope to achieve from the data is to find out what are the more important elements in City Tech for students, aspects in faculty that the school needs and can improve on, and find a trend in the overall satisfaction of faculty.

 

Moving on to the rationale, we want to know the relationship between students and faculty. Does faculty really have respect for students? Do they affect how you get your education at City Tech? Are faculty there to help you when you need it the most? Each one of our questions will specifically target the faculty and how to improve on it.

 

The first question asks about which factor matters the most to students about faculty. This question is important to us as it will help us understand what aspects impact students the most when evaluating a faculty member.

 

The second question is a scale question and it asks how seriously students take the student teacher evaluations forms at the end of the semester. Most of the time we have seen students give high ratings to professors when they did not deserve it. We want to know if students take it seriously or not and if they put time into it.

The third question asks the students how does the faculty affect the courses you register at City Tech? This is a huge question because faculty plays a huge role in students academic careers. Students want the right professor for their classes. There are professors who have full respect to students and some have none. Our survey will basically identify the elements behind it.

 

The fourth question in our survey ask about what difficulties students have encountered so far with faculty at City Tech? This question is important to our survey because it will help reveal some of the problems that students that have encountered that might undermine their experience with faculty at City Tech. This will also show us what faculty needs to work on.

 

Our fifth question asks about some of the problems that students might have encountered when they try to talk with the department chair. Because the chair is the head of the department, she has control of courses, programs and oversees the faculty. Therefore, students need to be able to communicate with her if they have any issues.

 

The six question we ask student what they want to see improved about the faculty in terms of teaching. This question will help us reveal what are some of the practices that faculty can develop more on to help better convey the material to students.

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Our seventh question asks what would you like faculty do to keep students more interested/engaged in lectures and classes. This question will reveal some of the things students want to happen in class in order to retain a student’s interest. This will help students want to learn more and also help them learn more.

 

Our eight question asks about the quality of academic advisement. There are many times where students come for advisement and end up leaving without proper guidance. Many times the faculty doesn’t advise properly and just agree on whatever the student may ask but that doesn’t work since the student is the one with the problems. We want to know if students are getting properly advised and this is why we are asking this question.  This question will help us to create a virtual representation and get a comprehensive idea of how students feel about the faculty in general.

 

The ninth question will be a question that asks on a scale how satisfied are they overall with the faculty. This will be a support question for our main topic. It will be a backup to our previously asked questions.

Calvin, Ogulcan, Rosa Meeting Minutes #3

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Online virtual meeting via Skype – 30 November 2014

Meeting called to order at 7:40 PM by Calvin

Members present:

Rosa, Ogulcan

Reading of Agenda

To discuss how to approach the new direction of our project again and what transpired during the discussion we held with the professor after class. Assign who needs to work on what, and what to research on.

Discussion:

7:40 PM                Discuss the agenda

7:50 PM                Discuss what we should start preparing and doing while we wait for a response from Professor Belli.

8:05 PM                Listing sources that were related to: effectiveness of teacher evaluations, what they measure, what they intend to measure.

8:30 PM                Established which sources to use to write our new annotated bibliographies.

Adjourned at 9:00 PM

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Online virtual meeting via Skype – 2 December 2014

Meeting called to order at 8:50 PM by Calvin

Members present:

Rosa, Ogulcan

Reading of Agenda

To discuss how to approach the new mockup of our survey. Tunnel vision is the main priority right now.

 

Discussion:

8:55 PM                Discussed about how our survey can go. It can proceed in two directions:

Assessing what students think is most important such as courses, mentorship, faculty advising and design the survey around that.

Ask students general questions about faculty. Questions such as things that the school lacks, some gaps, deficits, what they would need, and what problems there are.

We decided that we will do a mix of both elements.  Our questions will give students a better freedom of choice.

9:00 PM                Looked over the City Tech student teacher evaluation form.

 

9:30 PM              We as a group came up with questions that we will present to our class peers for    review.

Adjourned at 10:00 PM

Agenda #2 – Calvin, Ogulcan, Rosa

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Agenda #2

Skype Meeting

Date: November 23, 2014

Time: 7:20 PM to 11:15 PM

Place: Online virtual meeting via Skype

Meeting called by: Calvin

Attendees: Ogulcan, Rosa

 

Objective:  To discuss the new direction of our survey and to tackle/resolve issues on our to-do-list that we created in class on 19 November 2014 and how to approach our power point presentation

Agenda:

7:20 PM          Recap on what we did in Wednesday’s class and review the objective.

7:35 PM          Discuss the new direction of our survey.

8:45 PM          Tackle and resolve some of the issues we created on our to-do-list and research additional questions for the new direction of our survey.

10:00 PM        Discuss how to approach our power point presentation.

10:10 PM        Discuss what the power point will cover and content.

10:40 PM        Discuss how many slides we will need to cover everything.

11:00 PM        Discuss who will cover what.

Progress Report #3 – Calvin, Ogulcan, Rosa

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Progress Report #3

11/19/14 – 11/25/14

This week we held one in school meeting on 11/20/14 and one Skype conference on 11/23/14 discussing the new direction of our survey, the to-do-list that we created in class, how to re-structure the survey, who will research what, and the organization/content of our Power Point presentation.

After receiving feedback from Professor Belli, the first obstacle we came across was to think about how to change the direction of our survey where it will help students from graduation rates/transfer rates which would have primarily helped the school. Most of the questions were similar to the questions on AIR which is a survey that CUNYs administer every so often. We definitely did not want to create an inferior survey or re-invent something that already exists.

What we came up with was to restructure our survey and measure 2 areas of the school which are education and faculty. We will assign one page for each of the areas. These questions will be specific, and will be either multiple choices or a 5 point scale rating. If the students were to give a negative rating such as “Strongly Disagree” or “Very Dissatisfied”, there would be a paragraph box that would ask students why, and ask for their suggestions on how to improve. This allows students to give their input and for the school to be more interactive with students on how it can improve on these areas. Although chances are that it might not happen right away or worst case might not happen at all, it will give the school some insight on how to handle these issues from a student’s perspective for current students and maybe for future students.

The second obstacle that we came across was making our survey thorough while being concise. One of the biggest complaints through the feedback we gathered from students was that the survey was too long. The first iteration of our 2nd draft was to include 2 additional areas such as resources and student services. However, if we did include these, then it would definitely be too lengthy. We also thought about cutting down on the amount of questions but that would compromise the survey’s thoroughness.

What we eventually settled down on were education and faculty. These areas are what matter the most to any educational institution. After deciding on what areas to focus on, we had to research additional questions for these areas and then rephrase it so that they are distinct and students won’t have to second guess on what the question is asking.

In the last meeting we had, we mostly discussed on how to approach the power point. We discussed what the power point will cover, and who will present what. We agreed that it will cover the development process, the two areas of focus and our goals. Calvin will present the introduction, development process, and goals. Ogulcan will present the education section and Rosa will present the faculty section.

 

Meeting Minutes #2 – Calvin, Ogulcan, Rosa

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Online virtual meeting via Skype – 23 November 2014

Meeting called to order at 7:20 PM by Calvin

Members present:

Ogulcan and Rosa

Reading of Agenda

To discuss the new direction of our survey and to tackle/resolve issues on our to-do-list that we created in class on 19 November 2014 and how to approach our power point presentation.

New Business:

  • Created and shared the Google Drive folder.
    • Allows the group to work collaboratively synchronously and asynchronously.
  • Started tackling tasks on the to-do-list. Tasks were based on feedback received from students in class from the first draft of our survey.
  • Discuss the new direction of the survey.
    • How will it benefit students?
    • Don’t want to recreate a survey that is similar to the Assessment Institutional Research (AIR) that has already been conducted numerous times by CUNYs.
  • Break our survey down into faculty and education for now. We will discuss if we need more areas after the 2nd round of feedbacks from students and Professor Belli.
  • Assign who will research what on each of these categories.
    • Compile a list of questions.
    • Deliberate which ones to choose.
    • Rephrase it to make it as clear as possible and decide what type of format it should be in.
  • Look at some existing student experience surveys and find out how we can distinguish ours from theirs.
  • Discuss the organization and content of our PowerPoint presentation.
    • Discuss who will present what.
    • Discuss how many potential slides.

Meeting adjourned at 11:15 PM

Calvin, Rosa, Ogulcan Minutes 11/17

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Online virtual meeting via Skype – 17 November 2014

Meeting called to order at 9:15 PM by Calvin Lo

Members present:

Rosa Cedano

Members not present:

Ogulcan Gol

Reading of Agenda

To discuss the required documents to bring to class on 19 November 2014. Discuss which questions to put on our survey. What other research to carry out to help complete our task.

Business:

Motion from Calvin:  to create a mock up survey online to administer to students in class instead of printing out a set amount of hard copies.

Vote: Motion carried.

Motion from Calvin: Ask Rosa to look up a few questions from existing surveys that relates to transfer rates.

Vote: Motion carried.

Resolved: Calvin’s mock up survey to be posted online for students to take.

Meeting adjourned at 9:50 PM.