Adapting and enhancing an individual choice classroom experiment for remote asynchronous delivery: A practical case study

Abstract

The emergence of online platforms offers many benefits for conducting classroom experiments, while also allowing them to be run under a remote, asynchronous delivery format. However, there is little existing guidance on conducting such asynchronous experiments or evidence about their advantages and disadvantages relative to synchronous, in-person experiments. To help, this article uses a case study to provide practical, step-by-step guidance on how to adapt an individual choice classroom experiment for asynchronous, remote delivery. Using two sets of example data, we then suggest that the asynchronous version can produce similar in-experiment decision-making to the synchronous, in-person approach, while also obtaining comparable student participation and engagement rates. Finally, we illustrate how the asynchronous approach can help instructors to run different treatments within class experiments more easily.