{"id":7650,"date":"2025-05-16T14:05:57","date_gmt":"2025-05-16T21:05:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogschapman.wpenginepowered.com\/academics\/2025\/05\/16\/making-meaning-of-the-data\/"},"modified":"2026-07-23T15:19:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-23T15:19:09","slug":"making-meaning-of-the-data","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.chapman.edu\/academics\/2025\/05\/16\/making-meaning-of-the-data\/","title":{"rendered":"Making Meaning of the Data"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last fall, many of you filled out our survey about classroom amenities and technologies. I would like to share with you what we learned from that survey and how it is informing our work in the classrooms.\u00a0 First off, these are the activities that faculty identified as being well-supported in our classrooms.\u00a0 Note: I have bracketed the activities that are identified as not well-supported, because these are primarily “collaboration” activities:
\n<\/a>\"bar<\/a>The next question is related and shows how faculty routinely spend classroom time:<\/p>\n

\"graph<\/a>It is telling that faculty spend a good portion of class time with students doing group-based activities. As a result of this data, we are now prioritizing flexible furniture in classrooms as we refurnish them. We are also ensuring that, when possible, students can easily share content to classroom displays via HDMI cable connection or through AppleTV screen-sharing.<\/p>\n

Another question we asked, was what faculty wished they could do better in their classrooms, and this was the response:
\n\"\"<\/a>Of course we want to make sure that you have all the resources to ensure you can do these tasks, which are doable in most of our classrooms.\u00a0 To that end, these links may prove useful for you:<\/p>\n