Project Timeline

1st Year (2009)

• Project Planning
  
• Define Research Populations
• Test Out Qualitative and Quantitative Research Protocols
• Literature Review
• Analyze Student Work
• Coordinate With Similar Projects on Campus
• Preliminary Research Report (May)
• Confer with WSU and SERC partners (Nov)
  

2nd Year (2010)

• Continue to collect data about faculty involved in faculty development
• Continue to refine research protocols for understanding student work
• Run a parallel study with a group of non-participants in faculty development and/or WAC and QuIRK
• Confer with consultant and grant partners
• Mid-project Research Report
• Begin thinking about result dissemination
  

3rd Year (2011)

• Continue data collection for longitudinal analysis of student/faculty effects
• Compare and analyze data in relation to similar projects at Carleton and at partner institutions