UVI 2024– Previously trained faculty

Hi! We’re really glad you’ve decided to take part in the UVI study again. This is very similar to the study we did last spring, except you will be distributing TWO UVI’s and filling out a faculty form.

  1. This semester, we will ONLY be doing the UVI study in 1101 courses. Of course, you can (and should!) use these tools in any of your classes, but we can only pay professors who are teaching 1101 in the Spring of 2024 to participate in this study, and only surveys from 1101 courses should be turned in!
  2. Make sure you have signed up for this training HERE. 
  3. To be paid (total 2 hrs at your NTR) you will need to:
    • Watch this slide show, which will review the details of the UVI study. This should take you approximately 10 minutes.
    • Administer two Utility Value Interventions (UVI)  (beginning and end of term. These are 10-15 minute in-class writing exercises).  You will turn in beginning and end-of-term UVIs. Initial UVI’s should be completed by Feb 9. 
    • Fill out the beginning-of-term and end-of-term faculty forms– to be turned in with student surveys. These will be handed out with the UVIs and are brief.
    • Hybrid classes are eligible for this study, but the exercise should be done during the in-class time. Fully online courses are not eligible at this time.

Still have questions?

Email chall@citytech.cuny.edu or come to one of our optional UVI Q&A sessions on Zoom. The first will take place on Weds, Dec 13 (Reading Day) at noon. We will also have a Q and A in the first two weeks of Spring semester 2024. Zoom links forthcoming in email.

  • The training will explain to you how to administer the exercises (and what to do with them when you’re done) but if, at any point, you need to brush up on the guidelines, please see our FYW UVI PAGE. 
  • Paper copies of the student surveys (and corresponding faculty forms) will be available for distribution to students in the English Dept Office at the beginning of the spring semester.
  • If you want to read more about UVI’s, well, there are literally hundreds of articles. That said, I particularly like this one by the inventors of the UVI itself. It also gives examples of alternate UVI exercises.

Resources for Faculty: 

If you have questions on the administration of the UVI, email Carrie Hall, who is directing this study, at: chall@citytech.cuny.edu or Rebecca Mazumdar, Director of First Year Writing at: FirstYearWriting@citytech.cuny.edu