How Does Classroom or Interview Room Environment Affect Research Data?
Adrian Carmichael, Jacquelyn J. Chini, N. Sanjay Rebello
Department of Physics, Kansas State University
Sadhana Puntambekar
Department of Educational Psychology, University of Wisconsin, Madison
Research conducted in the contrived setting of an interview room, while intended to model a natural learning environment, may produce different results than data collected in an actual classroom. A teaching/learning interview in the interview room typically involves one to four students working with one researcher/facilitator while being audio and video recorded. This setting has the potential to cause students to respond differently than they would in the actual classroom. To investigate this possibility, we used the same instructional materials in a teaching interview and laboratory setting. The instructional materials were from the CoMPASS curriculum that integrates hypertext-based concept maps with design-based activities. All participants were enrolled in introductory concept-based physics. We will describe how the data collected in these two settings compare.
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