Replication Data for: Uses and Limits of Data and Student Feedback in Pedagogical Response to Covid19: A Case Study

This paper looks at one political science department’s uses of data and student feedback to make pedagogical choices about course modalities and pedagogical approaches during the Covid19 pandemic. This case demonstrates that gathering data from students through surveys and other means and utilizing that data in decision-making is a valuable practice. However, there are constraints on collecting quality data in a crisis. With a need to react quickly and gather and analyze data in a timely fashion, data-informed and student-empathetic decision-making is a more accurate characterization of the outcomes in this case and a more achievable goal for the future than data-driven and student-centered decision-making in a crisis. This paper concludes that data-informed and student-empathetic decision-making may be preferable in circumstances where the data is inconclusive or supports multiple conclusions and when there are conflicting needs and preferences among both faculty and students.