TABLE 6.

Coding rubric for survey question: Describe a course that you’ve taken where you felt you learned the most. Why did you learn so much?

Category	Definition
Interest and utility	Students are personally interested in the content area or know it will be useful to them in the future; material is related to past or future learning.
Workload	Workload is high.
Faculty support	Faculty support student learning; instructor is “excellent”; students offered “this faculty was…” statements.
Application	Students can see how material applied or mattered to “real life.”
Convergence of past learning experiences	Students can see disciplines coming together; e.g., combining “math & chem with Bio”; faith integration (students see concepts relating to and/or enhancing their personal faith); real-life application (content connects to a real-world case or context, job/career they are interested in); personhood (helps them develop their academic identity, e.g., science identity).
Volume	Amount of content, greater detail
High faculty expectation	Students perceived that faculty had high expectations.