ELI Discovery Tool: Student/Faculty Questionnaire

What the Questionnaire Does

The ELI Student/Faculty Questionnaire is designed to help you explore student and faculty experiences and expectations with technology in teaching and learning. Specifically, the questionnaire examines student and faculty

• Familiarity with learning technologies,
• Expectations for the use of technology in teaching and learning, and
• Views on how students prefer to learn.

This questionnaire provides insight into possible gaps that may exist at your institution, such as

• The difference between the learning technologies that are expected by today's students and those that your faculty feel comfortable using, and
• Students' self-described learning preferences contrasted with faculty perceptions of those preferences.

Why Use the Questionnaire?

Results from the ELI Student/Faculty Questionnaire can help provide your institution with answers to questions that might otherwise be difficult to answer, including:

• Do our students' learning preferences reflect the general profile of the Millennial or Net Generation?
• Are our students satisfied with our current level of delivery of learning technologies? What would they prefer?
• Are the levels of students' expectations and satisfaction evenly spread, or do they vary by factors such as academic concentration or demographic characteristics?
• Do faculty believe that they are providing sufficient use of learning technologies in their teaching? How does this align with students' expectations?
• Do your faculty have a good understanding of the way today's students are learning?

Getting structured input from faculty and students can influence your strategic planning in areas such as learning technology and faculty development. Administering the questionnaire over time can help you assess progress on strategic initiatives, and thus provide benchmarking opportunities. Perhaps most importantly, student and faculty participation offers an opportunity for a wider dialogue between faculty and students about teaching and learning, providing each group with insights about how the other views learning and learning technology.

Resources Available

• Student and faculty versions of the questionnaire in Microsoft Word format.
• The Implementation Guide for the ELI Student/Faculty Questionnaire offers guidelines and suggestions for administering the questionnaire.
• Conducting Focus Groups as a Follow-Up to the ELI Student/Faculty Questionnaire suggests how focus groups can help you gain a richer understanding of the questionnaire results, widen your institution's dialogue on teaching and learning, and plan potential next steps.

How to Use the Questionnaire

Here is a suggested strategy for the deployment of the questionnaire at your institution.

• Once your institution decides to use the questionnaire, you should form a task group that will help plan and oversee its deployment. Task group membership should include faculty, students, and relevant student support and faculty development staff. It is highly recommended that at least one task group member has expertise in social science survey methodology.
• The task group needs to develop a project management plan that includes establishing timelines; developing the sampling design; determining how the questionnaire will be administered and the results analyzed, and planning a campus marketing strategy.
• The task group needs to present the finished project plan to the institutional review board (IRB) for its approval. Any institutional-sponsored research using human subjects must get IRB approval. (If your campus doesn't have an IRB or you are not sure how it works, please contact your institutional research office to learn how research approvals are handled at your institution.)
• Once the questionnaire is actively deployed, designated task group members should send out reminders, be available for questions, and monitor the questionnaire's progress.
• The task group can develop a plan for campus dissemination of the questionnaire results and use the "Conducting Focus Sessions" guide to broaden the campus dialogue.

Questions?

Please contact Julie Little (jlittle@educause.edu) if you have any questions.