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For each group of 6 interviewees within an instructor group, we want to try and match the following behavioral and demographic variable distributions. Variables with importance high should be closely adhered to. The medium and low distributions are more flexible and act more as guidelines. The distributions are based on the 2009 Sakai Multi-Institutional Survey Initiative results as well as background knowledge of the Data Analysis Group.
Faculty
Variable | Distribution (out of 6) | Importance |
|---|---|---|
Department | Humanities: 1 / Social Sciences: 1 / Arts: 1 / Engineering: 1 / Science: 1 / Business: 1 | High |
Department size | small (~5): 2 / medium (~10): 2 / large (~20): 2 | High |
Time Committed to Teaching vs. Research | heavy teaching: 2 / about equal: 3 / heavy research: 1 | High |
Teaching primarily large vs. small courses | large: 2 / about equal: 2 / small: 2 | High |
Teaching primarily undergraduate vs. graduate courses | undergraduate: 2 / about equal: 2 / graduate: 2 | High |
Teaching primarily face-to-face vs. online courses | face-to-face: 4 / about equal: 1 / online: 1 | Medium |
Comfort level with online scholarly research | very uncomfortable: 1 / somewhere in-between: 4 / very comfortable: 1 | Medium |
Amount of time spent conducting online scholarly research | none: 1 / somewhere in-between: 4 / close to 40 hrs/week: 1 | Medium |
Comfort level with Sakai (or other CMS) | very uncomfortable: 1 / somewhere in-between: 4 / very comfortable: 1 | Medium |
Amount of time spent using Sakai (or other CMS) | none: 1 / somewhere in-between: 4 / close to 40 hrs/week: 1 | Medium |
Age | less than 40: 2 / 40 to 60: 3 / greater than 60: 1 | Low |
Graduate Student Instructors
Variable | Distribution (out of 6) | Importance | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Department | Humanities: 1 / Social Sciences: 1 / Arts: 1 / Engineering: 1 / Science: 1 / Business: 1 | High | Department size | small (~5): 2 / medium (~10): 2 / large (~20): 2 | High |
Time Committed to Teaching vs. Research | heavy teaching: 2 / about equal: 3 / heavy research: 1 | High | |||
Teaching primarily large vs. small courses | large: 2 / about equal: 2 / small: 2 | High | |||
Teaching primarily undergraduate vs. graduate courses | undergraduate: 2 / about equal: 2 / graduate: 2 | High | |||
Teaching primarily face-to-face vs. online courses | face-to-face: 4 / about equal: 1 / online: 1 | Medium | |||
Comfort level with online scholarly research | very uncomfortable: 1 / somewhere in-between: 4 / very comfortable: 1 | Medium | |||
Amount of time spent conducting online scholarly research | none: 1 / somewhere in-between: 4 / close to 40 hrs/week: 1 | Medium | |||
Comfort level with Sakai (or other CMS) | very uncomfortable: 1 / somewhere in-between: 4 / very comfortable: 1 | Medium | |||
Amount of time spent using Sakai (or other CMS) | none: 1 / somewhere in-between: 4 / close to 40 hrs/week: 1 | Medium | |||
Age | less than 40: 2 / 40 to 60: 3 / greater than 60: 1 | Low |
Instructor Assistants
Variable | Distribution (out of 6) | Importance |
|---|---|---|
Department | Humanities: 1 / Social Sciences: 1 / Arts: 1 / Engineering: 1 / Science: 1 / Business: 1 | High |
Department size | small (~5): 2 / medium (~10): 2 / large (~20): 2 | High |
Time Committed to Teaching vs. Research | heavy teaching: 2 / about equal: 3 / heavy research: 1 | High |
Teaching primarily large vs. small courses | large: 2 / about equal: 2 / small: 2 | High |
Teaching primarily undergraduate vs. graduate courses | undergraduate: 2 / about equal: 2 / graduate: 2 | High |
Teaching primarily face-to-face vs. online courses | face-to-face: 4 / about equal: 1 / online: 1 | Medium |
Comfort level with online scholarly research | very uncomfortable: 1 / somewhere in-between: 4 / very comfortable: 1 | Medium |
Amount of time spent conducting online scholarly research | none: 1 / somewhere in-between: 4 / close to 40 hrs/week: 1 | Medium |
Comfort level with Sakai (or other CMS) | very uncomfortable: 1 / somewhere in-between: 4 / very comfortable: 1 | Medium |
Amount of time spent using Sakai (or other CMS) | none: 1 / somewhere in-between: 4 / close to 40 hrs/week: 1 | Medium |
Age | less than 40: 2 / 40 to 60: 3 / greater than 60: 1 | Low |