Originally developed by the Centre for Higher Education Research and Scholarship, with teaching practitioners in mind. However, it is also beneficial for anyone wishing to conduct an educational evaluation as research. These interactive pages cover a range of tools and resources that you can use to carry out evaluation, including questionnaires and interviews.
Tools and resources for evaluation |
Questionnaires |
Interviews |
Pulse Survey |
What Can I Evaluate? |
Self-efficacy - Self-efficacy is the belief in one's own capability to plan and perform actions to attain a specific outcome (Bandura, 1997). |
Sense of Belonging - The sense that students are important and respected members of their universities (Anderman & Freeman, 2004). |
Self-evaluation - Ways to systematically reflect on one's own teaching and its effectiveness so as to find ways of improving. |
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Agency - Refers to an individual's psychosocial capacity for intentional, self-directed, and self-regulated action. |
Learning & Understanding - Evaluate learning and understanding as experienced by students. |
Finding Surveys & Other Assessment Instruments
In this age of open access, more and more research instruments are freely available for dissertation use (non-commercial). The next tab has several databases that will help you find the instrument needed for your research.
There are some research instruments that are proprietary and are only available via purchase. If this is the case, contact information is usually provided.
Broad Searching. The sources below provide broad search options. For more specific results, use one of the Assessment Databases in the next tab.
*Specialized databases like APA PsycTESTS are all about testing instruments. They provide permission information, reliability and validity scores, and in many cases, the full instrument.
NOTE: Interlibrary Loan (ILL) CANNOT be used to request a copy of an instrument. The user must secure permissions independently.
Assessment Library Databases
Looking for qualitative or quantitative types of research?
Looking for surveys?
Looking for interviews? [Primary source]
Taking the Measure of Work: guide to Validated Measures for Organizational Research and Diagnosis
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Interaction and the Standardized Survey Interview: The Living Questionnaire
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IRB: Institutional Review Board
Trevecca Nazarene University faculty and students are involved in many research projects. Some research reflects faculty and students' professional research interests, and some research is related to class or program requirements.
All research conducted by Trevecca faculty and students, and all research conducted at Trevecca by outside groups, must be approved by Trevecca's Institutional Review Board, which is responsible for ensuring compliance with established federal and university procedural and ethical guidelines for research.
If you have Trevecca account credentials, you can find more details about IRB requirements, including links to required training, application processes, and sample forms, by logging into the IRB SharePoint page at Institutional Review Board - Home (sharepoint.com).
Using Google Scholar to locate testing instruments or assessment measure ratings, i.e., reliability, validity |
In general, when looking for specific types of studies, put the type of the study in quotation marks. Remember you can further limit by date range or by adding another term.
Add another element, such as a subject term, to limit results to a set that is focused on a particular topic. Then, limit by date range if desired.
To locate research studies with by assessment measure rating, employ the following search strategies in Google Scholar. Remember you can further limit by date range or by adding another term.
Note: Change the second term to reflect the rating you need.
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