Colorado Learning Analysis Studies (CLAS)
The purpose of Colorado Learning Analysis Study (CLAS) is to determine how faculty, staff and students can improve the learning environment on the CU Boulder campus. Investigators interviewed seventy-five undergraduate students to determine what teaching practices enhance and impede undergraduates’ opportunities to learn inside and outside of the classroom. For Year 2 of the CLAS project, researchers sought interview item suggestions and feedback from campus administrators, faculty, and student service officers in a Stakeholders meeting, held in early September of 2008.
The report follows a set of themes discussed in interviews, and uncovers patterns of responses, providing sample quotations from student transcripts. The executive summary serves to summarize and highlight four topics of particular interest to campus stakeholders in the fall 2008 meeting: diversity, students’ experiences learning how to learn, student impressions of grades, and student course cohesion and course choice. The full report includes additional topics regarding learning, student priorities, use of technology in learning, students’ learning inside and outside of academia (e.g. including work and extracurricular settings), and student recommendations to new students.
Professor and President’s Teaching Scholar Clayton Lewis, Computer Science
Dr. Mary Ann Shea, Director, Faculty Teaching Excellence Program
Dr. Sarah Hug, Research Associate, ATLAS