Share Paper: Developing Tools to Measure Teaching Practices in Online STEM Courses

  1. Brian Horvitz, Western Michigan University, United States
  2. Whitney DeCamp, Western Michigan University, United States
  3. Regina Garza Mitchell, Western Michigan University, United States
  4. Megan Kowalske, Western Michigan University, United States
  5. Cherrelle Singleton, Western Michigan University, United States
Monday, April 11 11:30-11:50 AM Tidepool 2

Abstract: To scale effective science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) instruction across all classroom settings, researchers and stakeholders need systematic, valid, and reliable methods to measure STEM instruction in online courses. The purpose of this project is to develop and validate measurement tools – an observational protocol and a self-report survey – to reliably collect comparable, non-evaluative data for the study of online, undergraduate STEM instruction. This work is based on similar efforts to develop measurement tools for traditional classroom based instructional practices. The theoretical framework chosen to ground this work is the Community of Inquiry which has been used widely ...