1.10 Details about the RSI Self-Assessment
Learning Objective: Faculty can name how to effectively document their RSI practices during a self-assessment.
Introduction
When you are participate in the RSI Review, you'll have choices for how to do it:
- Complete a self-assessment of a course which is evaluated by the EdTech team.
- Ask EdTech to review the course for you.
- Have a member of your post-tenure committee complete a review during your post-tenure review.
The self-assessment requires that you submit the evidence via an assignment in this Canvas course. This page describes the that process in more detail. If EdTech reviews the course for you, a member of that team will be in contact to identify the course and ask for some details.
The Self Assessment
For the self-assessment, you'll submit documentation of the following:
- Your syllabus statement regarding feedback timeline
- Your first week assignment
- A description of how you academically monitor your course, and
- Evidence that you are doing RSI compliant interactions.
There are two deadlines.
At the end of week four, you'll submit documentation as follows:
- the syllabus statement
- the first week assignment
- a description of your monitoring practices
- a checklist of which RSI practices you are doing during weeks 1-4, and
- evidence of the RSI practices from weeks 2 or 3
At the end of week eight, you'll submit:
- additional information about how you are continuing to academically monitor your class
- a checklist of RSI practices from weeks 5-8, and
- evidence from either weeks 6 or 7.
The regulations suggest that you are doing these practices for all of the students in the class. For class-wide announcements and participation in class-wide discussions, this is straightforward. For RSI methods that involve contacting students individually, a representative sample is sufficient. For instance, if you are documenting that you proactively invited students to office hours, show that you sent that email to multiple students. If you gave substantive feedback, evidence should include examples from between three and five students.
You can submit documentation for the RSI review in a variety of ways. Pick the approach that works best for your workflow and for the RSI methods you've used in your class.
Examples include:
- screenshots of the practice, with some brief context (announcements, emails, course pages, feedback, rubrics with comments...)
- PDFs of a discussion thread that shows your interaction with different students
- video tour of the specific aspect from your course with some minimal narration
- a link directly to your canvas course (or the relevant section)
- a screenshot of a zoom meeting in progress with students there
- an image of your conference sign up sheet or calendar page with meetings with students
As always, the EdTech team is standing by and can help you craft a strategy to complete the documentation.