Software Process

End-of-Course Evaluation Information and Process

Process to Select the Software

During the spring and summer semesters, the Academic Computing Council (ACC), chaired by Nabil Ibrahim, reviewed the senate documents and voted to move forward with the adoption of Flashlight, a system originating from the Teaching and Learning with Technology Group headed by Steve Gilbert and Steve Ehrmann (www.tltgroup.org).

The ACC chartered a task force, chaired by George Hong to implement Flashlight for the fall 2005 semester. The Flashlight Implementation Task Force (FITF) has the following membership:

Lee Artz, Director of the Center for Instructional Excellence (co-chair)
Kuan Chen, Management
Lisa Hopp, Nursing
Nasser Houshangi, EMS
Dennis Korchek, Academic Computing Council
Michael O'Toole, Technology
Liz Osika, Academic Computing Council (co-chair)
Kent Pierce, LASS
Jeff Schultz, Education
Jeff Schieb, Institutional Research

The FITF reviewed the system and has determined that it meets the needs as identified in senate document 04-02, which required:

PUC owns the system.	PUC will subscribe to the Flashlight system at a cost of $5,000 per year.
Items are current.	Flashlight includes an indexed library of almost 500 validated questions for surveys, interviews, and focus groups.
Provides option of paper or web (Can be used for distance education courses).	Flashlight allows surveys to be printed and PUC has put together a process where faculty can use this printout and simply run the results through the ScanTron system.
Items can be developed locally, providing flexibility in developing items for individual departments and in arriving at norms.	Flashlight allows for custom questions to be developed, entered into the system, and shared with others, if desired.
Can be used for formative as well as summative evaluation.	Flashlight allows faculty to administer surveys as often as desired, with limited effort.
Provides web authentication so only students in a course can access it and no student can access it more than once.	Flashlight can be set to require authentication or can be used for anonymous feedback.
Sites can be expanded infinitely.	There is not a limit on the number of surveys that can produced within the system.