From: Modeling students’ behavioral engagement through different in-class behavior styles
Code | Description | Collapsed categories | Active(A)/Passive(P) | |
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Students are doing... | L | Listening to instructor/taking notes, etc. | Receiving (R) | P |
AnQ | Student answering a question posed by the instructor with the rest of class listening | Talking to class (STC) | - | |
SQ | Student asks question | – | ||
WC | Engaged in whole class discussion by offering explanations, opinion, judgment, etc. to whole class, often facilitated by instructor | A | ||
SP | Presentation by student(s) | A | ||
Ind | Individual thinking/problem solving. Only mark when an instructor explicitly asks students to think about a clicker question or another question/problem on their own | Working (SW) | – | |
CG | Discuss clicker question in groups of 2 or more students | A | ||
WG | Working in groups on worksheet activity | A | ||
OG | Other assigned group activity, such as responding to instructor question | – | ||
Prd | Making a prediction about the outcome of a demo or experiment | A | ||
TQ | Test or quiz | – | ||
W | Waiting (instructor late, working on fixing AV problems, instructor otherwise occupied) | Other (OS) | – | |
O | Other-explain in comments | – | ||
Instructors are doing... | Lec | Lecturing (presenting content, deriving mathematical results, presenting a problem solution, etc.) | Presenting (P) | P |
RtW | Real-time writing on board, doc. projector, etc. (often checked along with Lec) | – | ||
D/V | Showing or conducting a demo, experiment, simulation, video, or animation | P | ||
FUp | Follow-up/feedback on clicker question or activity to entire class | Guiding (G) | A | |
PQ | Posing a non-clicker question to students (non-rhetorical) | A | ||
CQ | Asking a clicker question (mark the entire time the instructor is using a clicker question, not just when first asked) | A | ||
AnQ | Listening to and answering student questions with entire class listening | – | ||
MG | Moving through class guiding ongoing student work during active learning task | – | ||
1o1 | One-on-one extended discussion with one or a few individuals, not paying attention to the rest of the class (can occur with AnQ, but should not occur with MG) | – | ||
Adm | Administration (assign homework, return tests, etc.) | Administration (A) | – | |
W | Waiting when there is an opportunity for an instructor to be interacting with or observing/listening to student or group activities and the instructor is not doing so | Other (OI) | – | |
O | Other-explain in comments | – |