For my research, I plan to use both quantitative data and qualitative data. I had my students participate in an engagement pre-survey, just to get their ideas on what they find engaging in the classroom, and they completed a post-survey, to find out what activities that I did in class during the treatment that they found engaging. For the pre survey, I listed several types of typical classroom activities that I already use in the classroom and had them rank them on a scale of 1-5 of what they thought was engaging. Starting from 1, "not engaging at all" to 5, "extremely engaging." I was able to graph the data and clearly see which activities the students found most engaging. This has shaped my teaching, because I will try to minimize activities the students find less engaging.
Some of my biggest findings were also from the survey when I asked qualitative, open-ended questions such as, "How did the _______________________ support your understanding of graphing linear equations?" I received an incredible amount of feedback from the students from their free-response answers to three similar questions after I used different activities in the classroom. Probably, the biggest take away from me is that it's really easy to make a google form, link it to our school's management system ECHO to ask my students for honest feedback. This will impact my teaching as I'll probably use something similar to this several times during the school year.
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