My research grant, part 2: expectations

Before I tell you what we found out, I should tell you what we expected to find.

We anticipated the following results from the interviews:

·         faculty were satisfied with the sessions, perhaps more so with the ones specific to the course;

·         students were not satisfied with the sessions and did not feel it met their assignment needs;

·         the reason why students did not return to the archives for other assignments;

·         the reason for faculty not requesting sessions for their other classes;

·         the reason why more faculty do not ask for a session; and,

·         a critique of the sessions’ delivery method.

We also expected the findings to result in clearly identifiable weaknesses in the method of delivering sessions and therefore the development of new methods to deliver sessions.  These new, stronger sessions would be tested in the Fall of 2012. 

Again, we were surprised on both fronts.