STUDY OF THE EFFECTS OF THE STAFF DEVELOPMENT CENTER AT VALENCIA COMMUNITY COLLEGE ON FACULTY AWARENESS AND USE OF EDUCATIONAL CONCEPTS, MEDIA MATERIALS, AND TESTING STRATEGIES

The Curriculum and Instructional Development Center at Valencia Community College was established through funding under the Advanced Institutional Development Program-Title III from 1977 to 1981. This study measures the awareness and use of educational concepts, media materials, and testing strategies among the full-time faculty who were teaching at the college in 1977. Those faculty members who participated in the Curriculum and Instructional Development Center completed the Survey a second time at the beginning of the year's experience in January and again at the end of the year's experience in December. In January 1982, at the completion of the project, only those full-time faculty members who had been full-time faculty members in 1977, who were still at the college and who chose not to participate in this Curriculum and Instructional Development Center completed the questionnaire. The effects of the year's experience on those who chose to participate is compared with the growth and change among nonparticipants.