Dear college STEM instructors,
We are inviting college STEM instructors to participate in a research project conducted at Auburn University that investigates classroom patterns/ behaviors. This study involves sharing your unique instructional strategies and experiences with active learning as an undergraduate STEM faculty in an interview that is expected to last about one hour. To be eligible, you will need to have a video recording of a recent class that you taught and be willing to share that recording with us (we will delete the recording after we have analyzed it for our purposes). We will 'COPUS' that class recording (marking instructor and student behaviors every 2-minutes according to the COPUS - Classroom Observation Protocol for Undergraduate Science) and come up with some follow-up questions to clarify what you do in the classroom and why.
We plan to use the data generated from this project to help us identify very specific instructor behaviors that lead to specific student outcomes. If you are interested in participating in the study, please send yzm0035@auburn.edu; a few days/times in the next month that you would be available to meet virtually via Zoom. Please let me know if you have any questions about the study or your participation in the study.
Thank you for your time,
Yousif Mouten, yzm0035@auburn.edu
Graduate Student
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry
Auburn University
Jordan Harshman, jharshman@auburn.edu
Assistant Professor
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry
Auburn University