This question was piloted in think-aloud interviews with undergraduates to determine whether students were interpreting the question correctly, and no alternative interpretations were observed.
Think-aloud interviews were done with students to check whether students were interpreting the questions correctly.
Think-aloud interviews were conducted with students before the survey was administered to ensure that students were interpreting the questions appropriately.
For instance, students in this study reported that GTA confidence increased over the semester, but it is unknown whether GTAs were actually becoming more confident or were merely exceeding undergraduate expectations, or undergraduate students were interpreting them to be more confident (without GTAs feeling more confident).
Thus, we interpret the difference in variation among groups to indicate that students are interpreting the items in the same way but there is more variation in design features among traditional courses than among CUREs.
Bloom's taxonomy can reliably be applied to provide insights into the cognitive level of the activities we ask of our students, but is clearly limited in documenting the ways in which students are interpreting the context of assessment items, accessing cognitive resources, or applying reasoning strategies.
In the meantime, our Science Laboratory Center (SLC) has become more esthetically attractive to the campus community and also to groups of visitors (Narum 2004; Hedeen 1997), through a visual interpretation of concepts in the life and physical sciences as they were interpreted by students enrolled in these two art courses.
Each student also participated in the real-time assessment of the examinations conducted by the three other students in their subgroup, totaling 96 examinations that were interpreted by each student at the end of the course.
In order to determine how emotions and cognition are experienced during collaborative group work online students' descriptions of their learning experience were interpreted using a qualitative approach.
It has been recommended that high scores on the BDI in samples of university students should not be interpreted as an indicator of depression as the BDI is highly correlated with other self report measures of psychopathology [ 43, 44].
