Spencer Lourens, William Fadel, Richard M. Fairbanks School of Public Health
Principal Investigator: Spencer Lourens, professor, Richard M. Fairbanks School of Public Health
Co-principal Investigators: William Fadel, clinical assistant professor, Richard M. Fairbanks School of Public Health
Project Title: Design of Hybrid Pedagogy in Biostatistics and Measuring the Effect on Student Outcomes and Satisfaction
Funding Level: $10,000
Abstract:
The proposed project intends to develop one new course taught to undergraduate students majoring in the School of Informatics and Computing, and to flip an existing course taught to undergraduate students in the Fairbanks School of Public Health and undergraduates from other schools satisfying their analytical reasoning general education requirements. All courses are closely related, but serve distinct audiences and will have identifiable differences in instruction or materials/software used. Current research regarding the effect of flipped classrooms on student achievement has been positive, but more research is necessary. In particular, better understanding of the frequency and quantity of use of online materials is necessary to fully synthesize the effect of a flipped classroom versus blended learning. Our primary aim is to determine the effect of a flipped classroom on student learning by comparing student performance in the traditional classroom setting in PBHL-B 300 Introduction to Biostatistics to performance in a flipped version of B300, and to do the same for B302 by comparing student performance in the new courses versus other courses at IUPUI that have been used to satisfy these required competencies in the past. We anticipate that a flipped classroom will have an average effect of increasing grades by half a letter compared to traditional delivery settings.
