[Professorsofteaching] Do you want data about how you teach?

[Annie Stanfield Ditta]

Dear Professor of Teaching Colleagues (especially Assistant Profs!),

I'm reaching out with a recruitment request for an NSF-funded teaching
study that I am working on with colleagues in XCITE and at UCSD. *This
would be an especially good opportunity for Assistant Professors looking to
get documentation of their teaching for merits and promotions!*

Please see the announcement below and either consider participating or
forwarding this along to your colleagues. If you have any questions, please
direct them to Lauren Levitt (cc'd).

Thanks in advance for considering!
Annie

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Dear Colleagues,

I am emailing on behalf of myself, Richard Edwards (Executive Director of
XCITE), and Lauren Levitt (a postdoctoral scholar in XCITE). We are working
on a grant to understand how instructors use data about their
own teaching practices to reflect on and iterate upon their practices.

We are looking for instructors like you who will solo-teach an *undergraduate
STEM* course next quarter with *at least 60 students* and are interested in
learning more about how they teach and receiving a teaching
consultation. To participate, you must *not* be familiar with the following
classroom observation protocols: CDOP, COPUS, PAITE or DART.
As part of the research, we will:

·       Meet with you to discuss your teaching goals and identify areas for
feedback. There is also an accompanying 20 minute survey.

·       Observe and videotape a weeks’ worth of your classes.

·       Provide a 1 hour teaching consultation where you will
receive data about your teaching and you will have the opportunity to think
about and discuss your teaching. There is also an accompanying 20 minute
survey.

·       Observe another weeks’ worth of your classes.

We will follow-up in 1-2 years to provide a final survey and meet
with you once again to discuss your ideas about teaching.
In return, you will get *a teaching consultation, data about your
teaching *that you can
use as part of your teaching portfolio, and *a $200 Barnes & Noble gift
card*.

All your responses and recordings will be kept confidential. Any data or
recordings will not be shared with the faculty members of the research
team, so none of your colleagues will know how you teach. Any data shared
with faculty members of the research team will be de-identified. This study
has been IRB approved (IRB #805998 from UCSD, PI Dr. Melinda Owens). More
information about the study can be found in the consent form, which is
attached.

*If you have any questions about the research, and/or you are interested in
participating, please reach out to Lauren Levitt (laurenl at ucr.edu
<laurenl at ucr.edu>).* We look forward to hearing from you!


Cheers,
Annie

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*Annie S. Ditta, Ph.D.*
Pronouns: she/her/hers (what's this?
<https://www.mypronouns.org/what-and-why>)
Associate Professor of Teaching
Distinguished Teaching Professor
Department of Psychology
University of California, Riverside
LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/anniesditta
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