[hharmon1]

Hello all.

More feedback on the meeting minutes:

I am happy to do an amateurish lit review on how the MSLQ has been used, but it will need to happen over the Thanksgiving holidays.  Before I delve into such a review, however, consider the following.

Getting two papers out is quite ambitious, given the paucity of good data.  I don’t think we’d have any trouble doing a purely qualitative paper.  In fact, our RoTL reflections could provide grist for that particular mill.  If we can collate our reflections, I’d be glad to distill, organize, and reconstitute them as a qualitative paper.  It does remain to decide which of the journals on our list we think is most appropriate for submission.  My recollection is that they were all solid journals, with no obvious differences in prestige, but that I preferred College Teaching because its formatting specs would be especially easy for me to satisfy quickly.  And it’s all about the quickness, isn’t it?  If no one has any objections, I’ll go ahead and get the templates in order.  Furthermore, if each member wouldn’t mind sending me a stream-of-consciousness list of personal reflections before we get out, I can do most of the writing over the Christmas holidays.

I would urge a purely qualitative paper for now.  Any mention of data analysis invites the question of why we didn’t get the results for which we hoped, and any mention of this, in turn, invites the question of what precisely we would do differently next time.  I don’t believe anyone in our group knows the answer to this question, and formulating that answer would further delay the paper.

Alas, I’m going to leave the quantitative paper in your capable hands.  Although I’ll enjoy writing the qualitative paper as a capstone for our efforts, I’ve elected not to participate in the second cycle” of the Flipped FLC.  I have full trust in my wonderful colleagues, with whom I’ve enjoyed working very much.

Send me anything you’ve got!  Don’t worry about organization, spelling, grammar, or punctuation; just commit some coherent reflections to a document, and let me do the rest.  I trust your powers of metacognition!

Best,

Hank

 

[hharmon1]

I think I have almost every issue you listed.

I’ll get to work.

Hank

[hharmon1]

ok, see you there.

 

 

 

[hharmon1]

I’d enjoy it as well.

[hharmon1]

Looks great!

Thanks, Michelle!

[hharmon1]

I’ll announce the link as soon as it’s posted, but I’ll give them time to complete it in class on the 25th and 26th, the last days of those classes.

It’s required to Pass the course, so I don’t anticipate any problems.  Unfortunately, I have only 28 students left who can complete the MSLQ.  Withdrawals have not been kind to my data.

[hharmon1]

Count me in.

 

[hharmon1]

Ha!  Great question!

I’ve altered several of my original prompts, but I’m fairly satisfied with the last one.  I almost hate to commit to it, but I realize that, sooner or later, you have to call a thing done.

I can try to help with the Likert Scale questions, if we all decide to go that route.  Be warned, though, that I have no expertise in the design of those surveys!

I’ll be reading the first wave of LL’s this weekend.

Hank

 

[hharmon1]

I’m thinking that my last prompt is a de facto exit survey, but it would be nice for us all to have the same data for the sake of the article.

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