[Professorsofteaching] Invitation to deploy brief student survey on AI use in STEM courses

[Selene Bobadilla]

Dear colleague,

We hope you’re doing well. We’re writing to ask whether you are willing to
help with an IRB-approved study examining how students are using AI tools
in STEM courses and how AI is affecting their mental well-being.

We are inviting instructors of STEM courses to deploy a short, anonymous
Qualtrics survey in their STEM courses this quarter. The survey takes
approximately 10 minutes for students to complete and can be completed
outside of class time.Your participation in deploying our survey is
completely voluntary.

We kindly ask that you provide a small amount of extra credit (no more than
0.5% of the total course grade). Awarding this minimal extra credit is
required as part of the IRB-approved protocol; if this is not feasible,
please feel free to decline participation.

To ensure students have a choice, those who prefer not to complete the
survey may instead complete an alternative assignment consisting of reading
a short provided article and answering a few questions. Both the survey and
the alternative assignment are housed within the same Qualtrics link.

A few additional details:

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   The study has received IRB approval.
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   The survey is fully anonymous.
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   The survey should be deployed in Weeks 5-6 of the quarter.
   -

   To minimize your workload, we can provide a ready-to-post Canvas
   announcement with all necessary instructions.
   -

   The extra credit can be awarded by creating a Canvas ‘assignment’ in
   your course and having students upload a screenshot of the Qualtrics
   completion screen.

The time/effort required from you is restricted to posting a Canvas
announcement and managing the extra credit. *If this is something you’d be
open to, please let us know so we can provide you with the Canvas
announcement including the Qualtrics link.* We appreciate your
consideration.

Thank you for your time.

Best regards,


Analisa Flores, Assoc. Prof. of Teaching, Statistics (analisa.flores at ucr.edu
)

Selene Bobadilla, Asst. Prof. of Teaching, Biochemistry (
selene.bobadilla at ucr.edu)

Amiee Zou, Educational Technologist Librarian (amiee.zou at ucr.edu)

-- 
Selene Bobadilla
*Assistant Professor of Teaching in Biochemistry*
Dept. of Biochemistry  |  College of Natural and Agricultural Sciences
University of California, Riverside
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