1. Please indicate your level of interest in the following teaching experiences (please include experiences at previous institutions; some courses may fit more than one category; check all that apply):
 

2. What resources would make it more likely that you would engage in some of these activities?
 

3. Indicate your level of interest in and experience with the following teaching/learning techniques:
 

4. Does your department have a capstone course for majors? If so, please check all aspects that are involved:

5. How appropriate are the following for general education at S.S.U.:
 

6. Indicate your level of interest in and experience with the following assessment techniques either within courses or for the major:
 
 The responses to the survey questions are from the following departments (number of individuals in parenthesis).

What resources would make it more likely that you would engage in some of these activities?

	essential	very helpful	somewhat helpful	IRRELEVANT
money during development	36	40	20	2
assigned time during development	54	43	3	0
assigned time during course offering	40	44	9	0
workshops/conference attendance to learn more	25	42	28	1
experienced student assistant	7	28	51	3
credit in the faculty reward system	56	41	11	2 (What reward system? = 4)
flexibility in departmental scheduling	51	32	15	0
other (please specify)  (time for team planning)  (lab space)  (faculty discussion groups)  (PIN line for German)	0	0	0	0

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Indicate your level of interest in and experience with the following teaching/learning techniques:

	currently use	tried but discontinued	very interested in learning to use	somewhat interested	not interested	UNSURE
cooperative learning	60	3	11	21	5	0
team work	68	4	0	21	7	0
service learning	20	4	16	37	22	2
development of critical thinking	91	1	12	2	1	0
technology	64	1	17	15	8	0
other (please specify)  (Empathetic role playing)  (Independent learning)  (Writing-to-learn)  (Socratic dialog)

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Does your department have a capstone course for majors? If so, please check all aspects that are involved:

	have required for all students	have available for some students	not present, but would like to add	INAPPROPRIATE
seminar method	53	12	7	0
internship	29	37	4	0
research experience	28	36	5	1
narrowly focused topic(s)	23	23	5	0
broad overview	28	11	6	2
connects with other disciplines	19	19	10	2
other components?  (please specify)  (issues focused)  (primary texts)

 

Responses from following departments (number of individual responses):

 
 
How appropriate are the following for general education at S.S.U.:

	essential	highly appropriate	sometimes appropriate	not appropriate	don't know	comments
interdisciplinary, multidisciplinary, or cross-disciplinary course	29	53	19	4	1
team-taught course (within discipline)	7	26	60	5	6
team-taught course (across disciplines)	7	39	52	2	3
cross-cultural or multicultural course	33	39	25	1	6
freshman course designed as a first college course	23	40	13	5	20
freshman orientation	39	35	10	7	14
learning communities - linked courses taken concurrently with seminar	3	38	45	3	13
linked courses without seminar	1	19	54	6	19
senior issue or problem based capstone course for general education	12	34	23	14	18
course based on primary documents	17	23	28	9	19
general education course in seminar format: reading/discussion emphasis	16	36	36	7	7
theory/practice course: using practical, work-based or simulated applications	14	42	33	11	4
simulation-based course: e.g. extended role-playing etc.	2	18	45	14	24
problem-issue courses as introduction to a mode of inquiry (e.g. humanities, social science or natural science)	16	49	26	4	8
theme-based course or cluster	4	45	34	5	12
some common course experiences	25	36	24	4	10
other (please specify)  (Minimum competency in basic skills)  (Foreign language beyond intro. level)	(1)  (3)

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Indicate your level of interest in and experience with the following assessment techniques either within courses or for the major:

	currently use	tried but discontinued	very interested in using	somewhat interested	not interested	UNSURE
standardized external assessment instruments (e.g. the GRE)	28	5	6	21	38	1
test banks	27	11	4	18	40	1
open ended essay questions	78	3	6	11	7	0
multiple choice or true-false	48	4	3	10	28	0
portfolios	28	0	17	28	20	2
performance-based assessment	55	0	12	12	5	10
structured problem solving	55	1	13	14	4	5
comprehensive exit exam	32	3	13	18	29	1
other (please specify)  (Cases)  (National Licensing Exam)  (Lab reports)  (Research papers/projects)  (Reading comprehension)

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