TY - JOUR
T1 - Development, Evaluation and Use of a Student Experience Survey in Undergraduate Science Laboratories
T2 - The Advancing Science by Enhancing Learning in the Laboratory Student Laboratory Learning Experience Survey
AU - Barrie, Simon
AU - Burke Da Silva, Karen
AU - Bucat, Robert
AU - Buntine, Mark
AU - Crisp, Geoffrey
AU - George, Adrian
AU - Jamie, Ian
AU - Kable, Scott
AU - Lim, Kieran
AU - Pyke, Simon
AU - Read, Justin
AU - Sharma, Manjula
AU - Yeung, Alexandra
PY - 2015/7/24
Y1 - 2015/7/24
N2 - Student experience surveys have become increasingly popular to probe various aspects of processes and outcomes in higher education, such as measuring student perceptions of the learning environment and identifying aspects that could be improved. This paper reports on a particular survey for evaluating individual experiments that has been developed over some 15 years as part of a large national Australian study pertaining to the area of undergraduate laboratories—Advancing Science by Enhancing Learning in the Laboratory. This paper reports on the development of the survey instrument and the evaluation of the survey using student responses to experiments from different institutions in Australia, New Zealand and the USA. A total of 3153 student responses have been analysed using factor analysis. Three factors, motivation, assessment and resources, have been identified as contributing to improved student attitudes to laboratory activities. A central focus of the survey is to provide feedback to practitioners to iteratively improve experiments. Implications for practitioners and researchers are also discussed.
AB - Student experience surveys have become increasingly popular to probe various aspects of processes and outcomes in higher education, such as measuring student perceptions of the learning environment and identifying aspects that could be improved. This paper reports on a particular survey for evaluating individual experiments that has been developed over some 15 years as part of a large national Australian study pertaining to the area of undergraduate laboratories—Advancing Science by Enhancing Learning in the Laboratory. This paper reports on the development of the survey instrument and the evaluation of the survey using student responses to experiments from different institutions in Australia, New Zealand and the USA. A total of 3153 student responses have been analysed using factor analysis. Three factors, motivation, assessment and resources, have been identified as contributing to improved student attitudes to laboratory activities. A central focus of the survey is to provide feedback to practitioners to iteratively improve experiments. Implications for practitioners and researchers are also discussed.
KW - Laboratory learning
KW - Student engagement
KW - Student experience surveys
KW - Student practicals
KW - Undergraduate education
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84933182831&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1080/09500693.2015.1052585
DO - 10.1080/09500693.2015.1052585
M3 - Article
VL - 37
SP - 1795
EP - 1814
JO - International Journal of Science Education
JF - International Journal of Science Education
SN - 0950-0693
IS - 11
ER -