Changes in confidence, experience and knowledge

1. Changes in confidence, experience and knowledge What happens in a beginning collaborative chemistry course

2. First Case Study • Beginning chemistry course using collaboration, inquiry and presentation • Undergrads from all schools but mainly from the Lit School and from the Engineering School • Looking at differences over time in perceptions of confidence, experience and knowledge

3. Inquiry: Confidence Inquiry: Knowledge Inquiry: Experience Laboratory: Experience Laboratory: Knowledge Laboratory: Confidence Collaboration: Knowledge Collaboration: Confidence Collaboration: Experience Themes of:Lab, Inquiry, Collaboration • Confidence low • Knowledge high

4. ENGIN LITARTS Inquiry: Confidence Inquiry: Knowledge Inquiry: Experience Laboratory: Experience Laboratory: Knowledge Laboratory: Confidence Collaboration: Knowledge Collaboration: Confidence Collaboration: Experience • Split by the two schools, • Engineering • Literature, science and the arts • Significant differences in all except collaboration

5. End Middle Start Inquiry: Confidence Inquiry: Knowledge Inquiry: Experience Laboratory: Experience Laboratory: Knowledge Laboratory: Confidence Collaboration: Knowledge Collaboration: Confidence Collaboration: Experience • End of the course, different shape! • Experience gained relatively more than confidence and knowledge

6. Second Case Study • Graduate research methods course using collaboration, skills, analysis and creation • Mostly doctoral students but some masters • Looking at differences over time in perceptions of knowledge, experience and confidence

7. end middle start Skills: knowledge Skills: confidence Skills: experience Creation: knowledge Analysis: confidence Creation: confidence Analysis: knowledge Analysis: experience Creation: experience Collaboration: knowledge Collaboration: confidence Collaboration: experience Themes of:Analysis, Skills, Collaboration, Creation • Same shape • Something different about middle of the course collaboration

8. end, f end, m middle, f middle, m start, f start, m Skills: knowledge Skills: confidence Skills: experience Creation: knowledge Creation: confidence Analysis: confidence Analysis: knowledge Creation: experience Analysis: experience Collaboration: knowledge Collaboration: confidence Collaboration: experience • Female-male • Difference due to females at middle of course working on collaboration females, middle of course

9. Female-male • Difference due to females at middle of course working on collaboration 4.25 4 3.75 end middle 3.5 start 3.25 3 2.75 females, middle of course 2.5 2.25 Skills: f Skills: m Creation: f Analysis: f Creation: m Analysis: m Collaboration: f Collaboration: m

10. Overall conclusions • Looking at changes in shape of profiles of confidence, experience and knowledge provides powerful insights. • Whether the profiles are parallel or change, it’s possible to find unique locations or shapes that can lead to finding a correcting problems