Personas of stem students completing online instructions during the COVID-19 pandemic

During the COVID-19 pandemic, instructors quickly transitioned to online teaching protect themselves and their students. Due this abrupt transition lack of communication between instructor student, had little time create methods that successfully adapt teach material best meet student's needs. Some students did well with methods, while others seemed struggle engage in classes. Without immediate face-to-face feedback from students, we believe background information such as learning styles, goals, motivations, expectations potential students- will help teachers improve increase classroom engagement comprehension. We surveyed interviewed STEM introductory-level courses collect data personas Personas are "life-like models whose characteristics driven by various goals motivations real or users." used persona methodology survey diverse group a four found classrooms. These represent real-life enrolling introductory classrooms, allowing use these novel tool design better undergraduate across disciplines.