Implementation & Analysis

Assessment & Analysis:

• To evaluate students perceptions as well as performance students will be administered a survey prior to the start of the course and then again after the course completion. The survey will collect information including demographics, grade in the class, perceptions on hands-on or active learning activities as well as virtual modules and the traditional versus flipped classroom design (McLaughlin, et.al., 2013).

  • Student surveys will be anonymous and in similar fashion to Foreman & Retallick (2012).

  • Grades will be collected at the end of the semester as in the past

  • Demographics on students will be retrieved from the Dean of Students office

• A Likert scale will be used ranging from 1-5 with 1=strongly disagree to 5 =strongly agree. Additional data will be collected based on amount of time students spend on the site, and the amount of time spent in the laboratory outside of class time.

• Descriptive analyses will be run on all the demographic characteristics. Following this non-parametric tests will be conducted to analyze all data associated with the surveys (Ball, et. al., 2001).

• Grades will be compared to a mean of 2012-2014 grades, as 2012 had a smaller laboratory size and 2013-2014 began dealing with the larger class size and the difficulties with laboratory accommodations.

• After the analysis is complete, this lab will serve as a demonstration model for other laboratories in the Animal and Food Science Department.The following 2 lab sections also currently use Anatomy Lab (Worrilow 114) and would benefit from the improvements in technology and facilities;

  • Introduction to Animal Science Laboratory

  • Nutrition Laboratory