Abraham Anna E, Busch Carly A, Brownell Sara E, Cooper Katelyn M
Research for Inclusive STEM Education Center, School of Life Sciences, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona, USA.
J Microbiol Biol Educ. 2022 Apr 7;23(1). doi: 10.1128/jmbe.00271-21. eCollection 2022 Apr.
Student incivility, defined as a student behavior perceived to be disrespectful or disruptive to the overall learning environment in a course, can negatively affect the science learning environment and instructors. The transition to online science courses during the COVID-19 pandemic created a unique environment for student incivility to take place in undergraduate courses. There are few studies that examine student incivility in online synchronous courses, and we know of no studies that have investigated student incivility during the COVID-19 pandemic. In this study, we surveyed 283 instructors across U.S. institutions who taught undergraduate science courses with synchronous online components. We probed their experiences with student incivility during the fall 2020 term. Over half of instructors surveyed reported experiencing student incivility, with women being more likely than men to report student incivility. Compared with white instructors, people of color were more likely to perceive an increase in student incivility in fall 2020 relative to previous in-person terms. This work indicates that student incivility is perceived in the online synchronous learning environment and that the negative impacts of perceived student incivility during COVID-19 online instruction were not distributed equally among instructors, disproportionately burdening women and people of color.
学生不文明行为被定义为学生的一种行为，这种行为被认为对课程中的整体学习环境不尊重或具有干扰性，会对科学学习环境和教师产生负面影响。在新冠疫情期间向在线科学课程的转变为本科课程中出现学生不文明行为创造了一个独特的环境。很少有研究考察在线同步课程中的学生不文明行为，而且我们所知没有研究调查过新冠疫情期间的学生不文明行为。在本研究中，我们调查了美国各机构中283名教授带有同步在线部分的本科科学课程的教师。我们探究了他们在2020年秋季学期遇到学生不文明行为的经历。超过一半接受调查的教师报告称经历过学生不文明行为，女性比男性更有可能报告遇到学生不文明行为。与白人教师相比，有色人种教师更有可能察觉到2020年秋季相对于之前面授学期学生不文明行为有所增加。这项工作表明在在线同步学习环境中存在学生不文明行为，并且在新冠疫情在线教学期间，所察觉到的学生不文明行为的负面影响在教师中分布不均，给女性和有色人种教师带来了不成比例的负担。
