Common Patterns in Student Responses
Across all homework assignments, the 10 most common response categories
included nine positive categories and one negative category (Fig
2 ). Interestingly, the negative category related not to the videos
themselves, but to the homework questions developed in association with
the videos. This category’s appearance in the top 10 was primarily
driven by Homework 3, which accounted for nearly 60% of the comments in
this category. Four of the top 10 categories were general positive
statements describing the student’s response to the video overall
(clear, interesting, enjoyable, etc). The rest included positive
comments about the speaker as an individual, students’ enjoyment of the
study organism or system discussed, and the figures and graphics
presented.