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STUDENT ENGAGEMENT AND LEARNING OUTCOMES

Principal Investigators: Karen Anderson, Associate Professor, Department of Sociology and Ros Woodhouse, Associate Professor and Director, Centre for Support of Teaching, York University.

Purpose: The purpose of the research is to determine the effects that both environment and pedagogical approach have on learning outcomes. The study involves no physical or mental risks to you as a participant. You will receive no direct benefit from the study. Indirectly, the research will benefit you, and future students at York University, by helping us to determine optimal combinations of teaching and learning environments, pedagogical approaches and use of technology to best promote student learning in first-year courses.

Confidentiality: Your responses to the questions in this questionnaire will be kept confidential and anonymous. Data will only be reported in aggregate; no individual responses will be reported.

Contact for information about the study:
If you have any questions, or desire further information with respect to this study, you may contact the Principle Investigator, Professor Karen Anderson, 2110 Vari Hall, York University. Professor Anderson can be reached by email at karenand@yorku.ca, and by telephone at 416.736.2100 ex 60304. This research has been reviewed and approved by the HPRC within the context of York University Senate policy on research ethics. If you have any questions or concerns, please feel free to contact York University’s Human Participants Review (‘Ethics’) Sub-Committee at 416.736.5505 (research@yorku.ca).


In completing this survey you may notice that a few questions are similar. This is because we are using and comparing several ways of measuring your engagement in learning. Please try to answer all questions.

Your continuation on in the survey indicates that you consent to participate in this study.

SECTION A:
This section asks for details about you. Please respond as accurately as possible.
1. Please enter your student number here. Please make sure that you accurately enter your student number. It is our record that you have done the survey.

2. Please type in the year of your birth.



3. Your sex

4. Is English your first language?

5. Are you an Aboriginal person? An aboriginal person is someone of native descent, that is, an individual who is either Inuit, Metis, or North American Indian – either status or non-status

Rate your proficiency in English in:
6. Speaking:

7. Reading:

8. Writing:

9. Listening:

10. Are you part of a visible minority groups in Canada? Some visible minority groups include individuals of African, East Asian (China, Japan, Korea), Southeast Asian (Thailand, Vietnam, Cambodia), Indo-Pakistani, or Middle Eastern descent.

11. Thinking about this current academic term, how would you characterize your enrollment at York?

12. What were most of your grades in high school?

13. What is your goal for grades in this class.