Learning Assistance Experience and Impact on Pedagogy (LAEIP)

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Many post-secondary learning support administrators (tutoring, mentoring, disability support, developmental courses, first-year advising, etc.) also have part-time or full-time teaching duties. This study attempts to examine the question of how experience with LAPs (learning assistance programs) impacts teaching philosophies and techniques of pedagogy when the same individual moves back and forth between administrating and teaching.

This research, when completed, will be shared with participants and with the larger academic community in the hopes of raising awareness and appreciation for the unique impact such experience has on instruction, and also in the hopes that LAP professionals will be given more appropriate opportunities to teach and to impact the pedagogy of their full-time faculty colleagues

Completion of the survey is voluntary, and a respondent can close the window or quit the survey at any time and their answers will not be saved. The question items are designed to be anonymous, and demographic data is only gathered to see if trends within the sample are evident that might suggest further lines of inquiry.

The primary investigator is Associate Professor of Sociology Jack Trammell at Randolph-Macon College, who worked in a learning center for 16 years and now is a full-time teaching faculty member. The PI can be contacted at: jtrammel@rmc.edu

Your input in this research is important, and valued. Thank you for taking time to contribute to a better understanding of this phenomenon. The survey will take on average 10 to 12 minutes to complete.

Thank you.

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* 1. Gender Identity

Female

Male

Other

Choose not to answer

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* 2. What is your age?

18 to 24

25 to 34

35 to 44

45 to 54

55 to 64

65 to 74

75 or older

Choose not to answer

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* 3. What is your highest level of education

4 year undergraduate

Master's or Equivalent

Part of Ph.D./Ed.D. or equivalent

Ph.D./Ed.D. or equivalent

Other (please specify)

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* 4. Type of Institution where currently or most recently employed

4 year public

4 year private

2 year public

Other

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* 5. Primary LAP area of most recent responsibility (you can check more than one)

Tutoring Program

Mentoring Program

Disability Support

Learning Center/Academic Center

Developmental Education

Reading or Writing

Other (please specify)

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* 6. Best characterization of teaching duties

Have none

Taught part-time previously

Taught full-time previously

Teach part-time

Teach full-time

Plan to teach in near future

Other (please specify)

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* 7. To what degree do you believe that working in a LAP setting has impacted your teaching practices (can be past, present or future teaching)

Not at all

Greatly impacted

Not at all

Greatly impacted

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* 8. Given the impact, in which way or ways would you say it has impacted you the most? (You can check more than one)

Understanding individual student learning needs

Embracing diversity of learners

Critiquing own instruction

Designing instruction differently

Designing assessment differently

Working more with pacing

Other (please specify)

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* 9. To what extent would you describe your LAP experience as

All about management and training

All about teaching students

All about management and training

All about teaching students

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* 10. To what extent do you feel that your experience in LAPs (and potentially your teaching experience) could be valuable to full-time teaching colleagues?

Not at all

Might be greatly valuable

Not at all

Might be greatly valuable

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* 11. If you could choose to, would you

Teach more

Teach less

N/A

Other (please specify)

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* 12. Do you think typical faculty are trained enough in pedagogy, course design, and assessment?

Yes

Mostly

Not really

Not at all

Other (please specify)

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* 13. Can you give a brief example or anecdote that illustrates how your LAP experience has impacted your teaching? (type N/A to skip)

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* 14. Are you a better teacher as a result of your LAP experience?

Yes

Probably

Not sure

Probably not

Other (please specify)

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* 15. Open-ended response: Can you remember a time when something happened in class and you recognized that it connected back to your LAP experience?

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* 16. Rank the following in order from least impactful to most impactful when considering LAP experience impacting teaching

Seeing how much students can struggle

Understanding developmental aspects of student progress

Seeing students underachieve in spite of working hard

Understanding systematic barriers for some students at the school

Seeing how characteristics of instructors inpact different students

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* 17. For each of the following items, rate whether you are more or less likely to utilize it in the classroom as a result of your LAP experience

	Less Likely				More Likely
Active Learning	Active Learning Less Likely	Active Learning	Active Learning	Active Learning	Active Learning More Likely
Service Learning	Service Learning Less Likely	Service Learning	Service Learning	Service Learning	Service Learning More Likely
Flipped Classroom	Flipped Classroom Less Likely	Flipped Classroom	Flipped Classroom	Flipped Classroom	Flipped Classroom More Likely
Group Learning	Group Learning Less Likely	Group Learning	Group Learning	Group Learning	Group Learning More Likely
Discussion	Discussion Less Likely	Discussion	Discussion	Discussion	Discussion More Likely

Learning Assistance Experience and Impact on Pedagogy (LAEIP)