Exploring STEM postsecondary instructors’ accounts of instructional planning and revisions

International Journal of STEM Education

Table 2 Methods used to determine student learning

Method used, or to be used, to determine student learning	Instructor knows if students learned	Instructor does not know yet	Total
Exam	1	14	15
Clicker questions	8	3	11
Homework	3	7	10
Responses to instructor’s questions	10	0	10
In-class activities/assessment	8	1	9
Quiz	5	2	7
Student questions or comments	5	1	6
JiTT	2	0	2
Muddiest point	2	0	2

Following a week of instruction, instructors were asked whether or not their students had learned the content they had taught. For those who responded that their students had learned the content, the “Instructor knows if students learned” column indicates what type of evidence the instructor cited (with instructors able to cite more than one method). The “Instructor does not know yet” column breaks down the methods cited by instructors who responded to this question by indicating that they were still waiting on some measure of student learning not yet available