New Traditions Faculty Survey

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• Name and location of original designer and tester
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• Overview of the tool/method
  This survey was designed to query faculty about their perceptions of the importance of each of a variety indicators related to the effectiveness of instructional or curriculum reform. The indicators range from students' performance on different types of exam questions to their choice of major and general interest in chemistry. Forty-nine surveys were distributed during the Fall semester of 1996 to all faculty members and five lecturers in the UW-Madison Chemistry Department. Twenty-three surveys (47%) were returned.
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• Analysis/interpretation of findings
  Although the instructors who completed this survey likely represent a good cross-section of the opinions held by the UW-Madison Chemistry Department, due to the small sample size formal statistical summarization was not undertaken. Rather, the response patterns were taken at "face-value" in the context of a physical science department at a large research university which is participating in a massive nation-wide effort to improve science education from kindergarten through graduate school. In this context, the faculty interview data (also found at this website: Faculty Interview protocols) provides an even richer setting in which to interpret these survey responses. Also, see the discussion in the Excel file under the sample results link.
  
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• Sample results
  New Traditions Faculty Survey :Fall semester 1996 (This is an MS-Excel 7.0 workbook.)
  
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• Who designed and tested the tool
  This survey was developed by Professor Clark Landis, with help from Dr. Diane Bunce of the Chemistry Department, The Catholic University of America, and Dr. Susan Millar, Director of the LEAD Center, UW-Madison.
  

• Name and location of original designer(s)and tester(s)
  For further information contact:
  • Professor Clark Landis
  
  Department of Chemistry, University of Wisconsin-Madison
  1101 University Ave. Madison WI 53706
  rm 7321 Chemistry bldg
  email: landis@bert.chem.wisc.edu; Phone: 608-262-0362
  • Dr. Susan Millar
  
  LEAD Center, University of Wisconsin-Madison
  1402 University Ave., Madison, WI 53706
  email: smillar@engr.wisc.edu;phone: 608-265-5943;
  LEAD Center administrative office: 608-265-5920
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• Others who have used this tool
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• Links to other sites
• The New Traditions Chemistry Curriculum Reform Initiative homepage: http://newtraditions.chem.wisc.edu/
• The LEAD Center home page: http://www.cae.wisc.edu/~lead/

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