Adapting Interactive Interview Tasks to Remote Data Collection: Human Subjects Research That Requires Annotations and Manipulations of Chemical Structures During the COVID-19 Pandemic

In response to the Coronavirus-19 pandemic, higher education institutions quickly moved to emergency remote learning, and most human subjects research came to an immediate halt. Chemistry education researchers who wanted to continue data collection were confronted by many challenges, including resea...

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Published inJournal of chemical education Vol. 97; no. 11; pp. 4196 - 4201
Main Authors Chatha, Courtney J, Bretz, Stacey Lowery
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Easton American Chemical Society and Division of Chemical Education, Inc 10.11.2020
Division of Chemical Education, Inc
American Chemical Society
Subjects
Annotations
Barriers
Chemistry
College Science
College students
COVID-19
Data Collection
Distance Education
Education
Educational Research
Higher education
Higher education institutions
Interaction
Interviews
Learning
Online Courses
Pandemics
Representations
Research design
Research subjects
Science Education
Science Instruction
Scientific method
Students
Undergraduate Study
Video conferencing
Videoconferencing
First-Year Undergraduate/General
Hands-On Learning/Manipulatives
Upper-Division Undergraduate
Misconceptions/Discrepant Events
Testing/Assessment
Second-Year Undergraduate
General Public
Communication/Writing
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Summary:In response to the Coronavirus-19 pandemic, higher education institutions quickly moved to emergency remote learning, and most human subjects research came to an immediate halt. Chemistry education researchers who wanted to continue data collection were confronted by many challenges, including research designs and data collection methods that had presumed local access to student participants, such as interactive tasks for students to complete during face-to-face interviews. In order to resume data collection remotely, interactive tasks needed to be translated to a virtual space. This communication reports adaptations made to an interview protocol to facilitate data collection in a remote setting with students as they interacted with and annotated multiple representations of chemical structures. The benefits and limitations to remotely capturing students’ drawings and interactions with multiple chemistry representations using the features available through a common video conferencing platform are discussed.
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ISSN:0021-9584
1938-1328
DOI:10.1021/acs.jchemed.0c01018