A Validated Novel Tool for Capturing Faculty-Student Joint Behaviors with the COPUS Instrument.

ABSTRACT: The Classroom Observation Protocol Undergraduate STEM (COPUS) tool was developed to quantify the time instructors and students engage in various activities within STEM courses. We offer a matrix of joint instructor-student behaviors rather than a pie chart of individual behaviors as an alternative perspective on the presentation of the results from the COPUS instrument. We suggest that the presentation of the results using this matrix tool allows for finer-scale insights into the learning environment in a classroom. Using this matrix tool, we identified four profiles of instructor-student behavior in undergraduate STEM classes at our regional comprehensive Master's institution: lecture, lecture plus (lecture with students posing questions to the instructor), standing clickers/IF-ATs (immed

SUBMITTER: Ludwig PM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6914351 | biostudies-literature | 2019

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature