Day 3 take aways on ALE

Surveys and Feedbacks are effective and useful tools used to assess a course. The results from each survey provide the School the informations on how well the course was conducted. In OCS, we administer surveys before, during and after the course to determine the responses from the students the issues that we need to improve upon and the good practices we need to maintain in order to meet the mission and vision of the School.
The use of survey questionaires as an instrument for evaluating Learning Environment have to take into the following considerations:

• Age group
• appropriate time of the survey
• activities before the survey
• purpose

Surveys are bsed mainly on Moo's 3 main general categories:

• Relationship
• Personal Development or goal orientation
• System maintenance and System Change

It involves Data Collection from people's view and Analysing Datas to determine the effectiveness of a Learning Environment.

Methods of Data collection:

• Survey questionaires
• Observations
• Interviews
• Informal conversations
• Documents

Instrument as sub-categorised as follows:

• Student
• Affiliation
• Professional Interest
• Achievement Orientation
• Staff Freedom
• Participatory Decision Making
• Innovation
• Resource Adequacy
• Work Pressure

Each group was given a case study on the positive and negative Learning Environment of a certain school. A fruitful discussion was conducted and shared in class. The study was based on the scales classified according to the various Moo's scheme using the Learning Environment Inventory instrument. One main observation on the case study was that the survey was conducted just for the Principal and certain school teachers. Including the students in the survey would inevitably gives us a more accurate feedbacks especially in regards to the motivation issues and relationship between the teachers and students.

I intend to introduce Blogging to my children at home but not for SAF due to the sensitivity and security of classification especially to the public. However, the questionaires seem like a good idea to implement it for my Instructors and students before, during and after each course that I conducted in OCS.