Cognitive Science 0283 - Educational Research: Students as Partners in Teaching, Learning, and Assessment

In order to build a college campus that truly embraces diversity and inclusion, Hampshire needs to hear student voices, share data with appropriate stakeholders, and design solutions to increase belonging and achievement. In this course, students are research partners collaborating with institutional assessment, the teaching and learning initiative, and other offices to gather data and propose/develop new initiatives. Students in this course learn qualitative and quantitative methods including such methods as interview, focus group, content analysis, survey, storytelling, and/or classroom observation. This course is particularly helpful for students interested in higher education, education more broadly, or who are in their last semester of Div II and want to learn methods for their own Div III project. (keywords:educational research, mixed methods research, education)

This course includes both in-person and remote elements, but can accommodate fully remote students. Students in this course can expect to spend 6 to 8 hours weekly on work and preparation outside of class time.