The Teaching Goals Inventory

What is the primary tool described in Chapter 2 that helps individual college teachers identify and clarify their teaching goals as a first step in Classroom Assessment?

In what year did the authors begin constructing the Teaching Goals Inventory (TGI)?

What was the response rate from the 139 instructors who participated in the first TGI survey at Miami-Dade Community College in 1987?

How many goal clusters make up the final version of the Teaching Goals Inventory?

Which TGI goal cluster had the highest coefficient alpha reliability of .86 in the final analysis?

Which TGI goal cluster includes goals such as improving memory skills, listening skills, and writing skills?

According to the development history of the TGI, what was the purpose of the 'Q-sorting' analysis?

In the 1990 TGI administration, what was the total number of faculty members who returned completed TGIs?

What does the text identify as the threefold purpose of the Teaching Goals Inventory?

The goal 'Develop ability to draw reasonable inferences from observations' is part of which TGI cluster?

What is the second step on the Teaching Goals Inventory Self-Scoring Worksheet?

What was the response rate for full-time faculty at four-year colleges during the 1990 TGI administration?

The goal 'Develop a commitment to exercise the rights and responsibilities of citizenship' belongs to which TGI cluster?

The development of the TGI was influenced by Benjamin Bloom's work, specifically his landmark 'Taxonomy of Educational Objectives'. What did this work provide for the TGI's development?

How many items (goals) were in the initial version of the TGI that was pilot surveyed in 1987?

What is the name of the TGI goal cluster that includes 'Develop management skills' and 'Develop leadership skills'?

What does the text state is the main reason for including the TGI in the handbook?

According to the directions in Exhibit 2.1, when a faculty member fills out the TGI, they should focus their responses on what?

What does a rating of 'Essential' on the TGI signify about a goal?

How many goals are included in the 'Discipline-Specific Knowledge and Skills' cluster?

In the process of revising the TGI, how many new items were added after the Q-sorting procedure?

Which of the following TGI goals is part of the 'Personal Development' cluster?

What is the final question on the self-scorable TGI (Item 52) about?

The chapter suggests that after using the Self-Scoring Worksheet, a teacher can locate likely CATs for assessing their goals by using which resource?

What was the purpose of the third revision of the TGI that began in the summer of 1989?

Which TGI goal cluster had the lowest coefficient alpha reliability?

What is the first step in completing the third part of the Self-Scoring Worksheet (Exhibit 2.2)?

The author of 'The Impact of College on Students', whose work influenced the TGI, was:

How many goals are contained in the 'Liberal Arts and Academic Values' cluster?

In the context of the TGI's development, what does 'cluster analysis' refer to?

Goal 23, 'Learn techniques and methods used to gain new knowledge in this subject,' belongs to which TGI cluster?

What was the overall response rate from the eighty-five faculty development professionals who were asked to participate in the Q-sorting analysis?

What is another name for the 'coefficient alpha' reliability measure mentioned in the chapter?

Which of the six options for a teacher's 'primary role' (question 52) aligns with the TGI cluster 'Higher-Order Thinking Skills'?

The problem of discovering goal clusters by correlating every item with every other item to see which items 'cluster' together is a basic description of what process?

The goal 'Develop ability to think creatively' (Goal 7) is found in which TGI cluster?

In the spring 1988 TGI administration, what was the response rate for community colleges?

What is the primary function of the Teaching Goals Inventory, as described at the beginning of the chapter?

Which TGI goal is NOT part of the 'Basic Academic Success Skills' cluster?

What problem with empirically derived clusters (like those from cluster analysis) did the use of Q-sorting help to address?

How many private four-year colleges and public community colleges were invited to participate in the 1990 TGI administration?

The goal 'Improve self-esteem/self-confidence' is number 45 on the TGI and belongs to which cluster?

What process is described as identifying a common dimension that runs through all the items in a statistically grouped cluster?

In creating ideal goal clusters during the Q-sorting effort, what was the maximum number of clusters the expert judges were asked to create?

What is the very first piece of information that the Self-Scoring Worksheet (Exhibit 2.2) elicits?

The TGI's development drew from Bowen's (1977) concept of 'rationality'. Which of the following is listed as a characteristic of rationality?

The text suggests one way to gain insights is to gauge the fit between a teacher's highest-ranked goal cluster and their response to which item?

How many total goals are on the self-scorable Teaching Goals Inventory form presented in Exhibit 2.1?

What did the authors discover about college faculty instructional goals from their literature search before creating the TGI?

How many goals are included in the 'Higher-Order Thinking Skills' cluster?