TABLE 1.
Engagement Construct | Student Parameter Measured | Survey or Question Used | Number of Questions | Format | Example Question |
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Behavior | Meetings with professor | “How often did you meet with professors outside of class time? | 1 | 5-point Likert Scale: 0 = Never, 1 = Once a semester, 2 = 1–2 times a month, 3 = Once a week, 4 = _More than once a week |
See Questions Used |
Participation in class | “How often did you participate in class discussions?” | 1 | |||
Study group | “How often did you study with other students outside of class time?” | 1 | |||
Cognitive | Self-Efficacy | General Self-efficacy Scale (GSE) (43) | 10 | 5-point Likert Scale: 1 = Strongly disagree, 2 = Somewhat disagree, 3 = Neither agree nor disagree, 4 = Somewhat agree, 5 = Strongly agree |
“I can solve most problems if I invest the necessary effort.” |
Sense of Belonging | Ingram Sense of Belonging survey (44) | 20 | “I would find it easy to join study groups with other students if I wanted to.” | ||
Emotional | Attitude | Colorado Learning Attitudes about Science (CLASS) (45) | 14 | “I think about the science I experience in everyday life.” | |
Value | Papanastasiou survey (46) | 8 | “The skills I have acquired in this class will be helpful to me in the future.” | ||
Stress | Papanastasiou survey (46) | 8 | “This class is stressful.” |
All surveys were combined into one for ease of student participation.