Consulting Services
Located in 301 Rider Building, the Schreyer Institute's consulting services are available to anyone who teaches Penn State students. We work with instructors on their courses, as well as with administrators and staff whose responsibilities impact teaching and learning.
Below are brief lists of common consultations topics and issues. If your interests are not represented here, please do not hesitate to contact us at site@psu.edu.
Individual Consults
- Assignment design and review
- Classroom observations
- Classroom research grants
- Defining learning objectives
- Survey development
- Syllabus review
- Test construction and item writing
- Learning styles
- Using technology to help student learning
- Interpreting SRTEs
Department Consults
- Curriculum reform/redesign
- Department-level student learning outcomes
- Faculty and student diversity
- Program planning
- Analysis of course performance indicators
- Customized workshops
- Undergraduate research
- TA Training
- SRTE scanning and processing
Program Consults
- New faculty support
- Program assessment and evaluation
- Teaching awards
- Campus-wide teaching events
- Online learning
- Gen Ed assessment
- Course delivery methods
- Preparing future faculty
- International faculty and TAs