TABLE 5.
Qualitative analysis of written Student Evaluation Questionnaire (SEQ) data from students in the original format and redesigned format.
| Relative Frequency (/# responses) | ||
|---|---|---|
| Attitudes Codes | Original Format | Redesign Format |
| Learn/learned, challenging/challenged [references to personal learning, “helped me learn”] | 58.9% | 77.6% |
| Improve, grow, helped me understand/develop, enhanced my skill/ability | 50.0% | 31.0% |
| Real science, actual science, real life, real world | 3.6% | 15.5% |
| Future/practical/useful/valuable/relevant | 37.5% | 31.0% |
| Science/biology/STEM major, upper level labs, other biology courses | 44.6% | 44.8% |
| Scientist/doctor/pre-med/medical school/dental/grad school | 39.3% | 31.0% |
| Positive interest/enjoy/excite/fun/engaging (general: for course, professor, “experiments”) | 62.5% | 51.7% |
| Positive interest/enjoy/excite/fun/engaging (specific skill, lab, assignment) | 26.8% | 8.6% |
| Negative interest/enjoy/excite/engaging (general and specific) | 19.6% | 6.9% |
| Practice/practicing | 12.5% | 15.5% |
| Confidence/confident | 8.9% | 1.7% |
| Skills Codes | Original Format | Redesign Format |
| Skills, techniques (general) (e.g., “scientific skills,” “laboratory skills”) | 23.2% | 19.0% |
| Graphs/graphing, figures, Excel, presenting data, visualizing data | 33.9% | 25.9% |
| Statistics, ANOVA, Tukey, t-test, JMP, analyze or interpret data, analysis | 42.9% | 72.4% |
| Writing (general) (e.g., “scientific writing,” “writing lab reports”) | 91.1% | 58.6% |
| Writing results text, captions, legends, discussion sections | 5.4% | 31.0% |
| Variables, hypothesis/hypotheses | 1.8% | 1.7% |
| Design/conduct own/new experiment | 14.3% | 34.5% |