I would like to do a student survey at the end of the talks day. In my last tutorial, Catherine mentioned Mentimeter, so I plan to try that. To design my post event survey, I would like to measure ‘student engagement’.
I did some readings into definitions of ‘engagement’ and used them to inform my questions:
Reading 1:Improving student engagement during in-person classes by using functionalities of a digital learning environment by Jérôme Hutain, Nicolas Michinov
The paper looks on how the functionalities of a digital environment influence student engagement in learning. It’s not the technology alone, but how a teacher uses it, specific to each situation.
“By offering students the possibility to post messages in a written format, anxious students (and any other student) may overcome their apprehension about asking the teacher questions in large lecture halls (Beekes, 2006; Stowell et al., 2010)”
It distinguishes between three types of student engagement; cognitive, affective/emotional, and behavioural.
Cognitive Engagement
“Investment in learning by students using deep learning strategies to integrate new information with prior existing knowledge (Greene, 2015)”
Affective/emotional Engagement
“Feelings learners have about their learning experience both in terms of attention and interest in the course and social connection with peers (Fredricks et al., 2004; Kahu, 2013; Wimpenny & Savin-Baden, 2013)”
Behavioural Engagement
“‘Actions taken by the learner, related to some student behaviours such as attendance, time and effort spent participating in activities, involvement in activities, raising its hand to ask or answer questions, etc. (Fredricks et al., 2016; Kahu, 2013; Mundelsee & Jurkowski, 2021; Zepke, 2014)
Questions to determine behavioural engagement – What they did?
- Did you have the opportunity to ask a question during the event?
- Did asking a question make you feel more confident about doing it again in future?
- Did the seating plan encourage participation?
Questions to determine affective/emotional engagement – How they felt about it?
- Did the Miro board make you feel more connected to your peers /speakers?
- Did the Miro board make you feel more confident about asking a question?
- Do you feel the speakers were relatable?
- Did completing the pre-session tasks make you feel more confident about participation?
- Did completing the pre-session tasks make you more interested in the speakers?
- Did the split sections make the talk more engaging?
- Do you feel the talks were inspiring?
Questions to determine cognitive engagement – Employment of deep learning strategies
- What was the most insightful industry take away from the event?
- Did anything surprise you about what you learnt about the speakers’ careers so far?
- In what ways did the event improve your understanding of careers in Fashion Communication?
- Would you say the speakers were relevant for your future career?
- Is there anything you would have liked the speakers to talk more about?
See the link to the Mentimeter Survey here.
References:
Jérôme Hutain et al. (2022) Improving student engagement during in-person classes by using functionalities of a Digital Learning Environment, Computers & Education. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0360131522000677 (Accessed: 14 November 2024).