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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.

Lecturer Portfolio Drop-In
Facilitated by Michele Barr

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

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

  • Monday, February 9, 2026 | 12:30pm-1:00pm (Zoom)

SPRING into Productive Online Writing with Accountability (POWWA!), the VIRTUAL writing program that values your writing and keeps it going. Need accountability? Want someone in your corner? Terri Patchen, FDC Faculty Fellow for Scholarship, will help you:

  • Organize your writing tasks and align your writing with your publishing aims
  • Be accountable to your writing deadlines
  • Feel good about who you are as a scholar!

Email tpatchen@fullerton.edu by Thursday, February 5th, 2026, to reserve a spot in this winning writing program. POWWA VIRTUAL orientation meeting to prepare for a semester of writing: Monday, February 9th, 12:30-1:00 pm. Limited to 8 participants. POWWA fills quickly and Terri wants to work with you! Email now for the program that has helped hundreds of CSU faculty!

ConstrAIning AI
Facilitated by Terri Patchen

This workshop will feature a variety of faculty efforts, successful strategies, and developing practices to recenter human intelligence in our courses.

Academic Triage: Strategies for Preparing your RTP/Evaluation File
Facilitated by Terri Patchen

Join Terri Patchen, FDC Faculty Fellow for Retention, to start prepping your RTP/Evaluation file for submission in Fall 2026.

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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Eligibility

Scholarship and Quantitative workshops, activities, and resources are open and available to all who are interested in applying and/or participating, regardless of race, sex, color, ethnicity, national origin, or any other protected status.

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