Center for Teaching and Learning
Focused Inquiry Groups (FIGs)
A persistent impediment to educational improvement is that faculty have few
purposeful, constructive opportunities to discuss and exchange the knowledge and
experience they have gained in their classrooms and to build upon this knowledge
by jointly exploring and testing innovative practices. Chabot College's
Focused Inquiry Groups (FIGs) provide the collaborative enterprise needed to
bring the knowledge of our faculty and staff together with the desire to seek
and evaluate solutions to our students' learning needs. For more
information on FIGs, please see
this report by the Carnegie Foundation.
What FIGs do*:
- Create communities in which educators can share what happens in
classrooms.
- Articulate, negotiate, and enact the most important outcomes for student
learning.
- Classroom research to better understand the needs and experiences of
students.
- Share insights and findings.
- Examine a wide range of evidence that describes patterns of student
performance.
- Collaborate in the design of curricula, assignments, student programs,
and assessments.
- Support professional development among educators.
*Adapted from "Windows on Learning: Faculty Inquiry".
Title III FIGs
Currently Active Investigations:
-
Assessment of Civic Engagement
- Assessment of Development of the Whole Person
- Qualitative Assessment Methods
- Retention Rates in Online & Hybrid Courses
- Best Pedagogical Practices in Large Lecture Courses
- Improving Success and Retention of African-American Students
- Development of an Accelerated Stats Pathway
- Social Science: Core Issues, Practices in Assessment and Student
Learning
Concluded Investigations:
Basic Skills Initiative FIGs
Currently Active Investigations:
Concluded Investigations:
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