Assessing FLCs: Case Records
Adapted for FIPSE Project 2003-04
Learning From Experience: "Developing Portraits of Practice"
CASE RECORD Part One (to be engaged early in the year)
Instituion’s Name:
A. FLC Name
B. FLC Overview
Tell the world what you’re doing. 75 Words or less!
C. Case Recorder(s)
Identify the person(s) preparing the case record on behalf of the FLC.
Who are you?
D. FLC Members, units, roles
List your community members, their units or disciplines, and roles in
the FLC. Who are core members and associates (key people involved in the
community project other than core members) of your FLC? What experiences
do each bring to the community and project?
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Other comments about FLC members and supporters:
E. Background & Context
Briefly describe your Learning Community Topic/Opportunity//Purpose and
the context within which you undertake it. What do you hope to achieve?
How will this contribute to learning at your institution? What desired
ending(s) would you like for the story of your LC and its project? What
types of institutional support do you have or would like?
F. Description of your early work, planning and preparations
What were the key components in your planning and preparation for your
FLC (Roles? Methods? Timelines? Coordinating schedules?)? What were key
issues and concerns, and, how did you sort them out? What were the key
successes and what impact have they had? Are there any vignettes that
illustrate these?
G. Description and learning about your community building and project
development.
Describe early phases of building your community and developing your projects.
What key challenges, problems, solutions, struggles, and failures do you
have and how do you handle them? What did they – or will they -
lead to? What successes have you enjoyed to date? Are there any vignettes
of potential consequence or impacts that you can share?
CASE RECORD Part Two (to be engaged near the end of the year)
H. Description and reflections on implementation.
Describe the test or trial and interactive phases of your FLC including
impact on learning. Use critical incidents and vignettes to illustrate
the action of your community’s project. What are key challenges,
problems, solutions, struggles, and failures, and how do you handle them?
What have been your key successes? How have you leveraged these to your
advantage?
I. Key Resources: Who and what are the people, organizations, materials,
websites, and other resources you utilized? What types of support did
you receive from your departments, colleges, teaching center, and administration?
Of all resources, which were essential?
J. Discussion:
This is your opportunity to capture the conversations among FLC members
as all of you reflect critically on the community and your project. As
you reflect back on the preliminary stages of your community and its focus
area and how it has evolved and developed over time, what are critical
incidents, key questions and junctures that made a difference in how the
community and your project evolved? What worked and why do you think it
worked? What didn’t work and why do you think it didn’t work?
What are your overall conclusions?
What are the next steps in the cycle of reflective practice? The next
steps may not be predicted and take you in another fruitful direction.
How might your Case Record be used as a resource for other individuals
and communities?
K. What questions/issues might you pose to the reader of your Case Record
to help in their efforts?
This project has been supported in part by a grants from the US
Department of Education Fund for the Improvement of Post-Secondary Education
(FIPSE) and the Ohio
Board of Regents.
