Assignment: DLE-Diverse Learning Environments Survey

Commercially Developed Instrument (CDI) Project: This is an individual assignment. Each student will be assigned a Commercially Developed Instrument (CDI) by the instructor to use as the basis for this project. Students will research and provide details, in the form of a PowerPoint, on each of the following:

• Website for instrument or for place that houses it (i.e., Higher Education Research Institute: HERI)
• History of instrument (when possible)
• Relationship to a student development theory (when possible)
• Description of instrument
• Use of instrument (population administered to, what questions does it answer, etc.).
• Type of questionnaire
• Number of questions
• Reliability
• Validity
• Cost of Instrument
• Sample of the Instrument (or perhaps one photocopied page, a sampling of two or three questions)
• One outside review of instrument with reference information from a reliable source (e.g., scholarly article, scholarly book, textbook, etc.,
• The technologies that are used and associated with your CDI

Presentation Guidelines:

- Use Microsoft PowerPoint to create your presentation.

- Students should becreative in their approach to this assignment and incorporate appropriate images and technology (e.g., YouTube video clip, etc.) to enhance the presentation.

Be mindful that student affairs professionals will need to know how to effectively use various forms of technology and social media in their jobs.

- I encourage you to make your session engaging and interesting and creative!

- Use 10-15 slides, including a reference slide with all sources used to complete this project.