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Why do we keep asking you all these questions?

Why do we keep asking you all these questions?. What we want. Prepare you for the workplace. Offer you meaningful educational experiences. Support your ability to learn for a lifetime. Conduct studies that inform the quality of our instruction and theories about how people learn.

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Why do we keep asking you all these questions?

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  1. Why do we keep asking you all these questions?

  2. What we want • Prepare you for the workplace. • Offer you meaningful educational experiences. • Support your ability to learn for a lifetime. • Conduct studies that inform the quality of our instruction and theories about how people learn. Knowing the right answer is great, but knowing how to find a right answer is even better.

  3. How are we gonna do this? • Ask you a bunch of questions and watch what happens in class. • Compare your answers • over time • to less senior BME students • Use differences to inform our instruction and your educational experiences.

  4. If I know how an expert thinks, then I can think like an expert. • We are also comparing your performance on various tasks to experts. • Allows us • A cross-sectional view of expertise. • How much expertise students can gain in four years?

  5. ER nurse Stage actor Astronaut Serial killer Careers? People who react to stress with relatively low anxiety Categories

  6. What exactly are you are measuring? • What you know about biodesign • What you’re taught about biodesign • How you actually design something

  7. Biodesign knowledge: homework

  8. Biodesign knowledge

  9. Who are the people who visit class from time to time? What are they typing into their Palm Pilots? Educational research faculty and graduate students Recording data about the class Attendance Q & A Engagement What you’re taught about biodesign

  10. Who else is watching what we do in class? I am. I record: Content Verbatim speech The nature of questions and answer exchanges My thoughts on how we might improve the class What you’re taught about biodesign

  11. ETE forms? Only 2 more times. While repetitive for you, this instrument allows me to: Measure how challenging you find the course Correlate activity type with engagement Compare within and across cohorts How many more times do we have to fill out those &*%#! ETE forms?

  12. Proposal • Design team study • Observation of team meetings • Individual interviews • Allow me to keep artifacts they create • What will I be looking for? • What will happen to the information?

  13. Participate in an interview? • 30 mins. = 2 free movie tix

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