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Workshops

The following workshops are not part of one of the certificate or badge programs. You can explore those workshops on the Certificates and Badges page.

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Scholarship

Listed below are FDC workshops centered around scholarship that are not part of one of the certificate or badge programs.

Syllabuster
Facilitated by Terri Patchen

Does your syllabus reflect what the university requires and what you understand as important to teaching? Want to do more to “meet expectations” in your evaluations? Want to increase alignment between requirements and assessments, but aren’t sure how to start?

If the answer to any of the questions above is yes, or if you just want to work on your syllabus with someone who cares about your success, join Terri Patchen, Ph.D., FDC Faculty Fellow for Scholarship and Retention, to bust out of old syllabus patterns and develop your syllabi. Together, we will:

  • Assure CSUF required elements are on syllabi
  • Align objectives with assignments, activities, and assessments
  • Adopt responsive pedagogy and inclusion statements
  • Amplify clarity and cohesion across syllabi and RTP/Evaluation narratives

Syllabuster Logistics - a virtual, hands-on, two-day workshop: Register in advance for this two-day workshop. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the virtual meeting – the link is good for both days. Bring your syllabi and let’s develop them together!

If you have any questions, reach out to Terri Patchen: tpatchen@fullerton.edu
Syllabuster has helped lecturers and tenure-track faculty. It is a generative and collegial way to develop your syllabus before the semester starts!

Creating Accessible, CSUF-Compliant Syllabi in LaTeX
Facilitated by David Adams

Learn how to use CSUF’s new accessible, compliant syllabus template in LaTeX—no wrestling with Word required. We’ll walk through setting up the template in Overleaf (or locally with LuaLaTeX), customizing it with your course content, and generating a fully tagged, accessibility-checked PDF that meets university requirements. The session will also highlight CSUF resources on crafting AI syllabus policies and best practices for incorporating them.

Lecturer Portfolio Drop-In
Facilitated by Michele Barr

An open Zoom room to get your questions answered as you are completing your Lecturer Portfolios.

Lecturer Support – Assure your Evaluation Meets CSUF Requirements and Highlights your Strengths
Facilitated by Terri Patchen

Lecturers: Does your evaluation packet reflect what the university requires and what you understand as important to teaching? Are there things you might develop but aren’t sure how? Let Terri Patchen, Ph.D., help you build an evaluation file (from the DPRC reviewer perspective) that includes what you need, where you need it!

Productive Online Writing with Accountability (POWWA)
Facilitated by Terri Patchen

FALL into Productive Online Writing with Accountability (POWWA!), the extremely successful VIRTUAL writing workshop designed to advance your writing in ways that feel affirming and generative. Need accountability? Want someone in your corner? FDC Faculty Fellow Terri Patchen will help you:

  • Organize your writing tasks and align your writing with your publishing aims
  • Be accountable to your writing deadlines

Interested? Email tpatchen@fullerton.edu now to reserve a spot! POWWA is limited to 8 participants and fills quickly. Logistics: POWWA VIRTUAL orientation meeting: noon – 12:30 pm on Tuesday, September 16th. Email Terri today for the link to the program that has helped hundreds of CSU faculty.

ZOOMBIE Writing Apocalypse
Facilitated by Terri Patchen

Back (from the dead?) by popular demand! Join the Zoombie Writing Apocalypse with renowned dead-paper communicator, FDC Faculty Fellow Terri Patchen, Ph.D., Friday, October 31st from 9:00 am-noon. No costume necessary! Email tpatchen@fullerton.edu by October 28th, to bring your desiccated, rotting papers back to life. Three hours of brain picking. YUM!

Writing a Great CV

A canvas-based self-paced course highlighting important concepts when writing your CV.

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Quantitative

Listed below are FDC workshops centered around quantitative methods that are not part of one of the certificate or badge programs.

Introduction to Excel
Facilitated by Kathleen Preston

Learn how to enter and organize data, create basic formulas and functions, and build charts and pivot tables.

Introduction to R
Facilitated by Kathleen Preston

The focus of this workshop will be on introducing the programming language of R and the user interface RStudio (to make R prettier) and applying R to inferential psychological statistics. This workshop will begin with a brief installation tutorial, interacting with the RStudio user interface, and an overview of some R programming basics and key functions.

Introduction to SPSS
Facilitated by Kathleen Preston

This hands-on workshop will serve as an introduction to using SPSS, a powerful computer program used for doing statistical analysis of data for research and other projects. Learn to enter and manage data, perform basic statistical analyses, and interpret results using SPSS.

Introduction to Multiple Regression Using SPSS
Facilitated by Kathleen Preston

Introduction to the statistical technique of multiple regression, the appropriate applications of the technique and statistical considerations when including multiple predictors.  It will conclude with a demonstration of the common model selection algorithms (forward selection, backward elimination, and stepwise regression) using SPSS.

Introduction to Structural Equation Modeling
Facilitated by Kathleen Preston

This workshop will focus on running and reporting basic structural equation models (SEM).  We will begin with a conceptual overview of SEM focusing on the Bentler-Weeks formulation.  Presuming the data have met the necessary assumptions (reviewed briefly), we will cover how to specify a basic SEM for analysis using the Diagrammer in EQS to write nearly all the necessary EQS syntax to run an SEM model.  We will examine the output and discuss “what to report” (e.g., adequacy of the measurement model, recommended fit indices, etc.), examine model modification indices, and present effect decomposition.  Finally, we will translate the model developed in the EQS Diagrammer, along with the EQS output, into a manuscript-ready model using LaTeX software.

Intermediate Excel
Facilitated by Kathleen Preston

This workshop is designed for faculty who have used Excel before and want to expand their knowledge. Improving formatting, organizing data, highlighting key information, and creating formulas/links between sheets. Specifically, we will be using Excel to quickly summarize multiple sheets of data into one, turn long lists and reports into easy to read tables, use formulas to check whether cells pass or fail specified rules, create links between cells so that they update automatically, and highlight targets, trends, duplicates and errors with Conditional Formatting.

Intermediate R
Facilitated by Kathleen Preston

The focus of this workshop will be on utilizing the programming language of R and the user interface RStudio for running inferential statistics. This workshop will begin with a brief overview of some R programming basics and key functions. After reviewing some R fundamentals, the programming language will be applied to psychological statistics including topics such as t-tests, correlation, regression, and creating customizable plots.

Introduction to Item Response Theory
Facilitated by Kathleen Preston

An essential aspect of psychological research is the measurement of individuals on a construct of interest.  Furthermore, accurate measurement of individuals is imperative when high-stakes decisions are involved. Therefore, much of psychological research comprises the development, revision, and application of measurement instruments. The focus of this workshop will be on applications of Item Response Theory (IRT) models to measuring psychological phenomenon. The workshop will begin with a brief discussion/review of related topics (e.g., classical test theory, logistic regression). After establishing IRT fundamentals, the assumptions and modeling techniques of IRT models for dichotomous data will be illustrated conceptually using modern statistical software, R.  Finally, utilization of various dichotomous IRT models to inform scale revision will be demonstrated and applied to example datasets. Basic knowledge of R is recommended, but not required.

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