Discipline-based Educational Research: Exmaining Student Academic Success in STEM Courses

Part of doing Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) or Discipline-based Educational Research  (DBER) is gathering and analyzing student data. In this CTLA workshop, Ohio State University Professor of Physics Andrew Heckler, who also serves as Vice Chair for Administration, will provide examples of teaching and learning research projects he has conducted in introductory physics. 

Heckler will highlight ways of looking at student data that can answer interesting and important questions about student learning and achievement in STEM courses.

He will encourage participants to consider questions such as: Is student speed in answering questions related to their course performance? How does psychological stress evolve over the semester? He will also encourage participants to share research ideas aond pose questions about how to collect data.

After attending this session, participants will be able to:

• Describe several kinds of student data relevant to SoTL and DBER.
• Describe several methods for collecting and analyzing student data.
• Provide several examples of how student data collection and analysis is linked to addressing a SoTL/DBER research question.
• Reflect on how they could collect and analyze student data to investigate SoTL/DBER questions of interest to them.