COPUS
COPUS tool provides researchers and instructors with a classroom observation platform based on COPUS tool to help enhance active learning practices.
COPUS tool provides researchers and instructors with a classroom observation platform based on COPUS tool to help enhance active learning practices.
COPUS tool allows observers to keep records of classroom behaviors in 2-minute intervals throughout the duration of the class session and results in pie-chart graphs.Those data could be saved, retrieved and even modified depending on circumstances. Besides,it can also be used for further analysis.
The COPUS tool help observers keep records of students' behaviors during class.
The COPUS tool offers strictly existed courses for observers to choose.
All the results of observation will be formed into graphs to provide an intuitive sense.
Data will have a further analysis to give advice for instructors.
In the data entry pages, there are four functionalities which are adding activity data, editing activity data, adding new courses and adding additional activities.
Users can input course details from “Year” to “Enrolled Students” before starting to record data.
The edit data page is designed for users to be able to make some modification of existed classes data.
The add new course offering is used to create new course with all details including faculty, instructor details, program it belongs to and course details.
Though COPUS protocol has its planned activities for both student behaviors and instructor practices, they are still limited. There might be new additions come out in the future.
The analyze data section has two types of functionalities, the session performance and the performance trend. Both of them also have one-hour class load and two-hour class load.
This page is responsible for showing an intuitional data collected from data entry section with the help of a couple of graphs. Overall Performance table gives a set of final statistics and more detailed information is listed in the chart below.
This function gives a trend of the same course in all the sessions whose data has been recorded. The key points of data analysis are as same as those in session performance page but different in content. This page focuses on trend throughout sessions and session performance page displayed a course only in one specific session.
The first version of COPUS tool has been released recently and has been used by SLOKI team for observing. Optimization will be performed according to feedback by users.
The COPUS tool is based on COPUS protocol. The front-end website is developed with PHP technology. The database is maintained by PHPmyadmin.
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