BROADENING PARTICIPATION IN THE GEOSCIENCES: THE ROLE OF CLASSROOM ANALYTICS (Invited Presentation)

Research shows that active learning methods can significantly improve student learning. However, because these methods create new forms of student interactions during class time, they have the potential to lead to inequitable outcomes for students (particularly in terms of race or gender). This means that instructors need to pay attention not just to how they are engaging students, but who they are engaging in the learning process. This talk introduces the EQUIP tool (https://www.equip.ninja), which is a free web app that can be used to track patterns of equity in student participation. EQUIP provides actionable data that researchers, professional developers, and instructors can use to help broaden participation in the geosciences. This talk describes research surrounding EQUIP and will also show participants how they could use it in their own classrooms.