{"id":108,"date":"2013-05-11T15:22:37","date_gmt":"2013-05-11T19:22:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/novelpedagogy\/?p=108"},"modified":"2013-05-11T15:52:54","modified_gmt":"2013-05-11T19:52:54","slug":"critical-incident-questionnaires-ciqs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/novelpedagogy\/2013\/05\/11\/critical-incident-questionnaires-ciqs\/","title":{"rendered":"Critical Incident Questionnaires (CIQs)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/stephenbrookfield.com\/Dr._Stephen_D._Brookfield\/Critical_Incident_Questionnaire.html\">Critical Incident Questionnaires (CIQs)<\/a>, by Dr._Stephen_D._Brookfield<\/p>\n<p><em>Background:<\/em> Katy and Tara have both been using CIQs in class this semester. \u00a0These are short learning assessments that are administered once per week, at the end of the last class of week. \u00a0The short survey (four open-ended questions) asks the student to be self-reflective about their learning throughout that week. \u00a0The responses (anonymous) can then be used by the instructor to categorize instruction methods and or topics that are particularly beneficial or challenging to the students. \u00a0Furthermore, it encourages the students to provide feedback and gives them active role in shaping class time.<\/p>\n<p><em>Discussion:<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Katy reported what seemed to be incidents of \u201csurvey fatigue\u201d for the students in the class. \u00a0More and more, students appear to be leaving questions blank. \u00a0Additionally, at least one student described the CIQ as a \u201cteacher evaluation\u201d to another student. \u00a0If students consider these \u201cevaluative of the instructor\u201d it tends to defeat their purpose as a \u201clearning-evaluation\u201d.<\/li>\n<li>It was suggested that, now that it is mid-semester, it may be a good time to remind the students what the CIQs are for and how they are used. \u00a0That they are an evaluation of one\u2019s experience in class, not of the instruction.<\/li>\n<li>It also became clear, in looking at the answers to the questions, that not all the students fully understand what the questions are asking.<\/li>\n<li>There is some fear of \u201cevaluation fatigue\u201d, in that the students may spend less time and\/or effort filling out the end-of-year evaluation because they have already filled out the CIQs. \u00a0Being that Katy is using CIQs in one class and not another, it may be possible to see a difference between the classes.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Critical Incident Questionnaires (CIQs), by Dr._Stephen_D._Brookfield Background: Katy and Tara have both been using CIQs in class this semester. \u00a0These are short learning assessments that are administered once per week, at the end of the last class of week. \u00a0The &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/novelpedagogy\/2013\/05\/11\/critical-incident-questionnaires-ciqs\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":79,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[43,25,50,51],"class_list":["post-108","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pedagogy-techniques","tag-ciq","tag-evaluations","tag-surveys","tag-trial"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/novelpedagogy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/novelpedagogy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/novelpedagogy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/novelpedagogy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/79"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/novelpedagogy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=108"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/novelpedagogy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":132,"href":"https:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/novelpedagogy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108\/revisions\/132"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/novelpedagogy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/novelpedagogy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/novelpedagogy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}