Research questions

Aims or Research questions: What are the aims/ research questions of the study? (identify 3-5
questions or objectives).
Aim: To determine if the flipped classroom can be effectively employed to improve students’
(perceived) understanding of, and confidence in, topics covered in a multidisciplinary module,
including those that they identify as being unfamiliar with?
Objective 1: Produce 5 bespoke videos to be employed in the flipped classroom for GY336 Air
Quality Management; one introductory video, two traditionally considered in the domain of the BA
cohort, and two in the BSc cohort. More specially, the videos will be designed to support the
following lecture sessions:
Lecture 1: Introduction to Air Quality Management
Lecture 2: Atmospheric Chemistry
Lecture 5: Measuring the Atmosphere from Space
Lecture 11: Air Quality Legislation and Policy
Lecture 12: Air Pollution Mitigation
Objective 2: Produce 12 bespoke StudentCentral quizzes to help prepare students for material
delivered in-class; 5 of these quizzes will be designed to query students about, and thus support,
the videos produced for Objective 1.
Objective 3: Using a mixed methods questionnaire (primarily containing quantitative questions),
assess 2018 GY336 students’ perceived confidence and ability to understand the topics outlined
within the module brief before the module commences.
Objective 4: Using a mixed methods questionnaire (primarily containing quantitative questions),
assess 2018 GY336 students’ perceived confidence and ability to understand the topics taught
within the module after the module concludes.
Objective 5: Using a focus group containing both BA and BSc 2018 GY336 students, obtain
qualitative data to help support analysis and interpretation of Objective 3 and 4 data
Objective 6: Using data from Objectives 3 – 5, make an assessment of the effectiveness of the
flipped classroom in this context to help bridge gaps in comprehension and confidence between
students and their peers from different degree programmes within GY336 as an example of a
module with multidisciplinary content

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