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of workshop on Studying Student Engagement
Imagine you've already collected your
students reactions to a collection of assignments and/or
course activities. For simplicity's sake, let's imagine it's
just a few students, just a few assignments, and you've
consolidated the data so that, if a student found an
activity (literally) attractive enough to work hard at it,
you color that datapoint green. If their reaction was only
mildly positive, you color it yellow. And if they found the
activity pointless and burdensome, color it red. What
follows are spreadsheets, each displaying data from a
different course and, for the sake of conceptual clarity, looking much
dramatic and clean than
actual data. Your thought experiment: if each of those
represented your class, what would you do next?
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COURSE 1
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Activity B
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Activity C
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Activity D
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Student 5
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Student 6
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COURSE 2
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Student 5
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Student 6
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COURSE 3
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Student 5
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Student 6
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COURSE 4
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Student 4
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Student 5
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Student 6
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Student 7
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Student 8
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Think about this on your own. Then,
for my suggestions, click here.
-Steve Ehrmann
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