Development of an observation protocol to study undergraduate engineering student resistance to active learning

• Autores: Prateek Shekhar, Matt Demonbrun, Maura Borrego, Cynthia J. Finelli, Michael Prince, Charles Henderson, Cynthia Waters
• Localización: The International journal of engineering education, ISSN-e 0949-149X, Vol. 31, no. Extra 2, 2015, págs. 597-609
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • Student resistance is often cited as a major barrier to instructors’ use of active learning, but there are few research-basedstrategies for reducing this barrier. In this paper, we describe the first phase of our research—the development andvalidation of a classroom observation protocol to assess student responses to instructors’ use of active learning. Thisprotocol, which draws upon other published observation protocols, allows researchers to capture data about instructors’use of and students’ responses to active learning. We also present findings from four first and second year engineeringcourses at two institutions that demonstrate the variety of ways engineering students resist active learning and strategiesthat engineering instructors have employed to reduce student resistance.