Hypothetical fallback questions for unexperienced course features¶

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Description¶

For features students have not encountered, the protocol instructs switching to a hypothetical framing. If the student says the course has not included real world topics, the interviewer asks how inclusion of such topics would impact learning; likewise for racial and cultural connections, and for feeling welcomed, the interviewer can ask what could be done or to reflect on a time the student did not feel welcomed in a course. This preserves data even when a feature is unused.

Design Implications¶

Context¶

Requirements¶

• Interviewer must first ask the direct question and establish the feature was not experienced before using the hypothetical

Constraints¶

Target Learners¶

• Undergraduate students in courses with optional or unevenly implemented features

Target Learning Goals¶

• Capture student perceptions of course design features they have not directly experienced

Related Strategies¶

• Student-guided screen-share tour to elicit courseware perceptions

Examples¶

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Key Sources¶

• Voices of Undergraduate Students Taking Introductory Statistics Courses: Interview Protocol. (2025). Digital Promise / Achieving the Dream. https://digitalpromise.dspacedirect.org/items/05ccd902-1e80-4c94-9cd9-f706a98d0cc0