Foreign Language Building (FLB) Room G8B

This course will show you how to run the most common bivariate statistical analyses in R. Topics covered include:

1. Chi-square and Fisher's exact test
2. Two-Independent samples t-test
3. One-way ANOVA
4. Bivariate correlation
5. Bivariate regression
6. Multivariate regression

Armory Building, room 428

Typical courses measure student learning only through homework, papers, and/or exams. These formal methods of evaluation are helpful, but teachers and students can work together in a variety of informal ways to ensure that course learning objectives are clear and achievable throughout each week of the semester. Come learn about a variety of Classroom Assessment Techniques which can improve the learning environment for you and your students.

This is a TA-to-TA workhsop, run by one of CITL's Graduate Affiliates.

Room 428 Armory Buildling (Southwest corner of the building)

Junior Faculty Seminar Series: Best Practices to Improve Student Learning

Come join this learning community by participating in this specially designed seminar series for junior faculty, though all are welcomed to participate. We'll share strategies and best practices for effective and efficient teaching. There will be great conversations, handouts, and lunch! Since each session builds on each other, we hope you will be able to attend all the meetings.  

Room 428 Armory Buildling (Southwest corner of the building)

Workshop Series: Preparing to Take the EPI

These four workshops are designed for Graduate Students who plan to take the EPI. The workshops are free, but registration is required. Space is limited, so register early at http://go.illinois.edu/EPI_Workshop_Registration. First-time test-takers and students re-taking the EPI are eligible to attend. Each workshop will focus on a different part of the EPI, including the EPI's structure, how it's scored, preparation tips, definition of terms, responding to open-ended questions, strategies for effective interviewing, and activities and resources you can use on your own to prepare for the EPI. During each session, you'll also have time to practice what you've learned and receive brief feedback. Detailed information about the EPI can be found at http://citl.illinois.edu/citl-101/measurement-evaluation/english-proficiency-interview.

Questions? Email us at citl-epi-info@illinois.edu.

Location: All workshops take place in Room 428, Armory Building  (Southwest corner of the Armory Building)

Workshop session descriptions:

G8B Foreign Languages Building

This course will show you how to run the most common bivariate statistical analyses in SPSS. Topics covered include:

1. Chi-square
2. T-Tests
3. One-way ANOVA
4. Bivariate Correlation
5. Bivariate Regression
6. Multivariate Regression

Armory Building, room 428

What is this thing you’re supposed to include in your application?  Some institutions call it a teaching philosophy, some a teaching statement, others a teaching philosophy statement, but more and more places require such a document from applicants for faculty positions.

I’ll be honest with you: your teaching philosophy statement is difficult to write, and different institutions want different things out of it.  But there are some general rules you can follow to help your statement do its job of telling your future colleagues what kind of teacher you are and will be.

Come to this workshop to begin the process of identifying your teaching philosophy, deciding which parts of it belong in your statement, and avoiding common mistakes.

Room 428 Armory Buildling (Southwest corner of the building)

Workshop Series: Preparing to Take the EPI

These four workshops are designed for Graduate Students who plan to take the EPI. The workshops are free, but registration is required. Space is limited, so register early at http://go.illinois.edu/EPI_Workshop_Registration. First-time test-takers and students re-taking the EPI are eligible to attend. Each workshop will focus on a different part of the EPI, including the EPI's structure, how it's scored, preparation tips, definition of terms, responding to open-ended questions, strategies for effective interviewing, and activities and resources you can use on your own to prepare for the EPI. During each session, you'll also have time to practice what you've learned and receive brief feedback. Detailed information about the EPI can be found at http://citl.illinois.edu/citl-101/measurement-evaluation/english-proficiency-interview.

Questions? Email us at citl-epi-info@illinois.edu.

Location: All workshops take place in Room 428, Armory Building  (Southwest corner of the Armory Building)

Workshop session description:

Armory Building, room 428

In this session, we will explore the multiple roles you may play as a teacher that go beyond developing a good lesson plan and
consider the various decisions you will have to make even with the best-prepared lesson plan. Using case studies, we will discuss
some simple tips and frameworks for thinking about your teaching role holistically.

This is a TA-to-TA workshop, run by one of CITL's Graduate Affiliates.

G8B Foreign Languages Building

The SAS program is a syntax-driven statistical and data management program used in many different professional and academic disciplines. It has a reputation for being difficult to learn at first, so let us help you get ahead of the curve with this introductory course. Topics covered include:

1. Introduction to SAS windows
2. Creating and defining libraries
3. Basic SAS syntax
4. Computing new variables
5. Recoding variables
6. Creating frequency and contingency tables
7. Obtaining univariate statistics
8. Handling SAS output

Room 428 Armory Buildling (Southwest corner of the building)

Junior Faculty Seminar Series: Best Practices to Improve Student Learning

Come join this learning community by participating in this specially designed seminar series for junior faculty, though all are welcomed to participate. We'll share strategies and best practices for effective and efficient teaching. There will be great conversations, handouts, and lunch! Since each session builds on each other, we hope you will be able to attend all the meetings.  

Armory 428

G8B Foreign Languages Building

Stata is a small but powerful menu- and syntax-driven statistical package for managing, analyzing, graphing data, as well as for creating programs and macros. After attending the Introduction to STATA for Windows, you will be able to:

1. Open Stata software, set up the size of memory, and open an existing data set
2. Understand the layout and use of Stata's windows
3. Obtain descriptive statistics and frequency tables
4. Transform and manipulate variables using generate and recode
5. Create and edit graphs
6. Save and print output by using a log file

G8B Foreign Languages Building

This course will show you how to run the most common bivariate statistical analyses in SAS. Topics covered include:

1. Chi-square
2. Independent Samples T-Tests
3. One-way ANOVA
4. Bivariate Correlation
5. Bivariate Regression
6. Multivariate Regression

Room 428 Armory Buildling (Southwest corner of the building)

Junior Faculty Seminar Series: Best Practices to Improve Student Learning

Come join this learning community by participating in this specially designed seminar series for junior faculty, though all are welcomed to participate. We'll share strategies and best practices for effective and efficient teaching. There will be great conversations, handouts, and lunch! Since each session builds on each other, we hope you will be able to attend all the meetings.  

314 Main Library

ATLAS.ti is a qualitative data analysis program that allows you to track large amounts of data in a meaningful and systematic way. It is designed to help manage and analyze non-numerical data such as text, video, audio, and graphics. ATLAS.ti can be understood as a tool that facilitates the integration of data description, analysis, and interpretation. In the course of qualitative research, which often involves analysis of complex phenomena, the program offers tools to manage, extract, compare, and explore data. The goals of this workshop are to:

1. Learn about the methodological principles behind ATLAS.ti.
2. Open ATLAS.ti software and import textual documents.
3. Understand the layout of the ATLAS.ti environment.
4. Learn the fundamental functions of ATLAS.ti for data description, exploration, analysis, and interpretation.
5. Learn how to print, save, and export output.

G8B Foreign Languages Building

This course will show you how to run the most common bivariate statistical analyses in STATA. Topics covered include:

1. Chi-square and Fisher's exact test
2. Two-Independent samples t-test
3. One-way ANOVA
4. Bivariate correlation
5. Bivariate regression
6. Multivariate regression

Armory 428

314 Main Library

This workshop takes an advanced approach to managing, extracting, comparing, and exploring data using ATLAS.ti tools. The goals of this workshop are to:

1. Understand the specific functions of creating and installing a Copy Bundle
2. Learn how to import Excel spreadsheets using column prefixes
3. Select a search tool and learn the formatting required for search expressions
4. Create and use Primary Document Families and Super Families to apply filters
5. Learn how to produce the most analytically beneficial memos
6. Generate spatial representations of codes and quotations using networks
7. Investigate the co-occurrences of codes with quotations
8. Analyze data and generate both qualitative and quantitative output 

G8B Foreign Languages Building

After attending the R workshop, you will be able to understand:

1. Basic R syntax

2. Common R packages
3. Importing data sets from other software such as SPSS, Excel, and Stata
4. Computing new variables and recoding variables
5. Creating frequency and contingency tables
6. Obtaining univariate statistics
7. Handling output

Room 428 Armory Buildling (Southwest corner of the building)

Junior Faculty Seminar Series: Best Practices to Improve Student Learning

Come join this learning community by participating in this specially designed seminar series for junior faculty, though all are welcomed to participate. We'll share strategies and best practices for effective and efficient teaching. There will be great conversations, handouts, and lunch! Since each session builds on each other, we hope you will be able to attend all the meetings.  

ICES, IEF, and reflection essays come and go, particularly as your program stretches on. Rather than reading and filing that feedback, we can use those resources to consider long-term changes to a particular course, future courses, or our own pedagogy. This workshop will address different types and forms of student feedback, tailoring your questions/approaches to generate useful feedback, and using student feedback over time to develop and revise a course. This workshop may be particularly useful for instructors with experience teaching the same course repeatedly but will be applicable to anyone hoping to teach, revise, or develop a course in the future.

This is a TA-to-TA workshop, run by one of CITL's Graduate Affiliates.

G8B Foreign Languages Building

This course will show you how to run the most common bivariate statistical analyses in R. Topics covered include:

1. Chi-square and Fisher's exact test
2. Two-Independent samples t-test
3. One-way ANOVA
4. Bivariate correlation
5. Bivariate regression
6. Multivariate regression

Room 428 Armory Buildling (Southwest corner of the building)

Junior Faculty Seminar Series: Best Practices to Improve Student Learning

Come join this learning community by participating in this specially designed seminar series for junior faculty, though all are welcomed to participate. We'll share strategies and best practices for effective and efficient teaching. There will be great conversations, handouts, and lunch! Since each session builds on each other, we hope you will be able to attend all the meetings.  

Armory Building, room 428

Most students are able to meet your expectations, if they are willing to work hard.  In this workshop, Lucas will introduce you to a research-based theory of motivation, and guide you towards finding some motivational levers you could use to help your students achieve their best.

Armory Building 428 (M-T); Education Building 166 (W)

Interested in offering an online course but not sure where to start? Want to learn how to build lecture videos or how to assess your online students? Need some help with the basic tools of Moodle or Compass?

CITL’s Create Your Own Online Course Workshop is designed to help you identify what is involved in creating an online course, help you get started, and provide resources for getting additional help.

The format of this workshop is flexible to your needs and availability. The entire workshop runs Monday through Wednesday, November 13-15, from 9:00 AM to noon each day. On Monday and Tuesday, the workshop will be held in 428 Armory. 

You’re welcome to sign-up for all three mornings of the workshop (9 hours in total) in order to have an intensive experience, covering all of the bases. Alternatively, you can also pick and choose which topics are of interest to you and attend just for those sessions. Attendees of the workshop will also have access to an “office hours” after the Fall Break for a one-on-one consultation with experts from CITL.

The workshop is open to all Illinois faculty, staff, eLearning Professionals, and TAs. The workshop is free of charge, but we do ask you to indicate via the RSVP form which days you will attend (even if you plan to only stay for 30 minutes). Contact Katie Glaze (kglaze@illinois.edu) if you have questions.

Download the tentative agenda or RSVP now!