Data Collection Tools

Data Collection Tools: Focusing Beyond Teaching

Although the priority focus of your role is teaching, there are a myriad of other roles you play as a faculty member. These additional responsibilities play a vital role in fostering a high-quality learning experience for your students. Take a moment to think about the responsibilities that may form part of your role as a faculty member and check off those that apply to you:

• Course-specific academic advising
• Supporting or recommending retention strategies
• Designing assessments
• Developing and revising courses
• Designing curriculum
• Designing and implementing student success strategies
• Participating in committees
• Participating in faculty meetings
• Research and Scholarship
• Preparing for accreditation
• Coaching/supporting faculty colleagues
• Supporting student recruitment or orientation
• Establishing linkages with industry partners/professionals
• Engaging in continuing professional development
• Developing new courses or programs
• Leading or participating in quality review processes
• Leading or participating in co-curricular activities with students
• Engaging in faculty-led international programs (FLIPs) or Global Citizenship and Equity Learning Experiences (GCELEs)
• Other ________________

Upon reviewing these roles, it is easy to see how they have an impact on the quality of academic programs and the learning experience for students. From critical thinking to interpersonal skills, these roles require a broad and varied skill set, which may or may not be the same skills required to be an effective teacher. Your success and value as a faculty member, also requires you to be effective in these roles. These roles also provide another opportunity for reflective practice.

Data Collection Tools: to Take an Even Deeper Dive

You have identified the work that you do ‘beyond teaching’ and reflected on the values that are important to you as you do this work. This section provides you with a sampling of tools that you can use to take an even ‘deeper dive’ and collect data on your effectiveness as a faculty member in the roles that you engage in beyond teaching. This data will help you to reflect on what you are doing, how well you are doing it, and how you might improve.

These data collection tools are not meant to be used in sequence or all at one time. Select one or two tools that resonate with you right now and return periodically to this section of the manual to try something new.

If you are interested in how others see your values in action, refer to Activity 4: Cross Check found in Part Two of this manual. This will guide you through a process to gather information from your students, your colleagues, and your Chairperson, revealing what their perspectives are.