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Don: I just had a thought (a rare occurrence which I feel the need to share). We recently started a national geoscience education research listserve, and I think there would be interest in your proposed work. Most entry-level geology courses are general education, whether they are listed under the general education program or not; geology introductory courses are generally no more than 5-10% geology majors. If you need to get more letters of support, you might want to send a message to the listserve: [log in to unmask] Take care Julie Julie Libarkin Assistant Professor Department of Geological Sciences & Division of Science and Mathematics Education (DSME) Michigan State University 206 Natural Science Building East Lansing, MI 48824-1115 [EMAIL: [log in to unmask]] [WEBSITE: http://www.msu.edu/~libarkin/] [Primary Phone in Geological Sciences: (517) 355-8369] [Secondary Phone in DSME: (517)432-2152, ext. 161] On Dec 9, 2007, at 12:34 PM, Donald Deeds wrote: > Hello Julie, > > I would like to touch base on two fronts. First, the conference > proceedings are finally ready to be sent to the printer. Hopefully, > the printing will be finished sometime soon after the first of > January. We will send everyone a set of copies at that time. > > Secondly, I'm asking for your help. Our group here at Drury is > submitting a Phase II CCLI proposal to NSF that is due January 10, > 2008. (By the way, this date seems to be coming up really quickly.) > > Our new proposal will build on our current inventories, the Science > Value Inventory (SVI) and the Math Value Inventory (MVI). These > were developed to measure the value general education undergraduate > students place on their math and science education. The two largest > sections of our new proposal will focus on converting each of our > current inventories to an on-line version, and to create similar > inventories for science and math majors. > > We would like to state in our proposal that there is general > interest in using these inventories, as a part of course and > curriculum development efforts. If you or others at your > institution would be willing to use our inventories as part of your > curriculum assessment at sometime in the future, we would > appreciate a letter of interest from you that we could attach to > our grant. In addition, if you were willing to offer your students > as part of our validation process that would be more than great. In > either case, the inventories will be administered on-line and will > take no more than 15 minutes to complete. > > If you would be willing to submit a letter of interest, it would > need to be in our hands sometime before January 3, 2007. Let me > know and if you like, we can send you a draft letter to be used as > a template. > > As always, your help would be greatly appreciated. > > Thanks, Don > >