Having reviewed the IRB form I am realizing I need to get a much clearer plan for my research project organized. I know that I want to focus on finding different strategies that increase student engagement so that they can more effectively learn content, but I am still unsure exactly how to go about that process. So I need to know what has prevented them from engaging with lessons thus far, as well as how I am going to measure their (hopefully) shift in engagement moving forward. I am considering trying a combination of content assessments and student interviews. I feel like both of these forms of measurement have benefits and drawbacks. Content assessments would, I believe, improve with increased engagement, but if they do not that does not necessarily mean students were not engaged. Student interviews would be useful to see how student opinions change over time, but I worry that students would not want to tell you they were not engaged with the lesson, or that they did not find the lesson important to their learning experience. Hopefully by combining these two measurement strategies I can get an accurate `measure of their change in engagement.
The other need to knows I need to consider are the different factors that contribute to engagement. There is interest in the topic, agency in learning, as well as differentiation. Obviously students will need to find a topic interesting on some level, but they also need to find studying that topic worth their time in some way. They need to see a larger value in learning about this. In addition they must be able to learn the content being presented, so the lesson must be appropriately differentiated for them in order to engage with it. Hopefully as I think about all of this more, the answers to all of these questions will become more clear!
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