TeamMeeting 2016 01 Notes

Team Meeting Notes

Nassau Community College
January 7-8, 2016

Original Agenda for this meeting: TeamMeeting_2016_01_Agenda

Measurement

Review of what we have

• Measurements as defined in the proposals - are we covering the bases?
  • Go back and look at the proposal - what did we say we would measure?
• Existing instruments
  • Pre/Post Survey - any update needed?
    • Other axes: compare non-HFOSS with HFOSS projects; compare "homegrown" projects with non-homegrown projects; longitudinal data - look at change over time?
    • Pre/post survey matching implemented in Fall 2016, Monisha's data (TCNJ) also tracks students
  • Experience Self-report survey (Karl and Stoney) - expand/refine and get IRB approval?
    • https://github.com/kwurst/se-topics-survey
    • Good first cut at learning outcomes for FOSS

Direct measurement of learning

• What study designs are possible?
• What instruments do we need?
  • Quizzes and tests in class
  • GH pilot of general FOSS intro questions
    • Ideal test bank would have multiple questions for each Step. - Likely 100's of questions.
    • Would be good to link questions to steps/activities.
    • "Questions" sprint to create questions to measure learning.

• Are there existing instruments that we might use, especially for process skills?
• How to we measure process skills?
  • Contact Juliette Lantz (Drew University) from other POGIL project about lit search for their IUSE grant.

How to measure instructor stage 3 activity

• One year post survey for POSSE alum
  • Poor response to last round - should we switch to interviews?
• Multiple good stories told at Hopper (Patti, Becka)
  • Is there a publication in this (experience report style perhaps)?
  • What are CS-specific process skills?
• Mentions of efforts in POSSE roundup applications

Pathways Working Group Meeting

• Planning
  • Goals
  • Agenda
  • What materials need to be prepped?

Pathways Model

Goal - have a reviewable draft by the end of this meeting.

How do we move forward with the pathways model? We need to:

1. Finalize definitions
   1. Are there steps to accomplish a task or tasks to accomplish a step?
   2. Learning resource, Learning activity, categories of learning things (POGIL activity, assignment, case study, etc)
2. Flesh out some example paths

Related to diagrams:

• Happy Path: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Happy_path
• Information cartography, Subway Map: http://cacm.acm.org/magazines/2015/11/193323-information-cartography/fulltext

Planning for upcoming events

• Weekly team meeting time for this term. Doodle poll: http://doodle.com/poll/zhyivyx3dmshkexp
• Need to come up with an approach for organizing publications/presentations
  • Identify venues for the next year+
  • Identify possible authors
  • The overall goal is to improve our publications and include a larger number of POSSE/HFOSS community members
• What are the next publication targets?
  • SIGCAS Newsletter section based on POSSE Roundup
    • We need to write an overview (perhaps with some POSSE alum participation?)
• Need for a better round of evaluation and data collection to support publications

• SIGCSE
  • POSSE Roundup, Wednesday, March 2, all day (Sultana)
  • BoF
  • NSF Showcase, Thursday, March 3, 10:00 am
• CCSCNE
• Posters at NSF/AAAS meeting
• POSSE
• Possible other events
  • Course materials sprint
  • Academic and HFOSS community summit about education for HFOSS
  • Publication sprint
• Working groups
  • Pathways model
  • Curriculum mapping

POSSE

• Planning for 2016
• Stage 1
  • What revisions are needed?
  • 6 vs 8 weeks
  • Participation by POSSE alums of HFOSS project people
• Stage 2
  • Date and location
  • Advertising
  • Team attendees and instructors
  • POSSE alum who might attend and present - including having alums start to be full instructors
  • What revisions are needed?
• Stage 3
  • Assessing success of stage 3
  • How can we better support stage 3 faculty?
  • Plan more organized faculty mentoring?
• Red Hat support / participation in POSSE

Teaching materials

• VM support for demo and development environments for key HFOSS projects
• How well have we packaged what we have?
  • OAI-PMH
• How do we create/collect more materials?
• Should we hold a learning materials sprint?
• How do we encourage more contributions by POSSE grads?
  • Use of stipends funds

Budget

• Review of budget status

Next Steps

• Encouraging use of faculty stipends
• Participant support for follow-up events
  • 50 ways - Part 2