The Evolution of the What Is Happening in This Class (WIHIC) Questionnaire: A Scoping Review

• In Event: Contemporary Learning Environments Research: Measurements and Contexts

Abstract

At the 1996 meeting of American Educational Research Association in New York, Barry Fraser, Campbell McRobbie and Darrell Fisher presented the What is Happening in this Class (WIHIC) questionnaire (Fraser et al, 1996). In the almost 30 years since, it has become the preeminent questionnaire in the field of learning environments research, such that Jeffery Dorman (2008) declared that the WIHIC had achieved “bandwagon status.” The purpose of this study is to examine the scope and scale of the WIHIC’s use in contemporary research.

Authors

• Christopher S. Long, University of North Texas

• Chris D. Ham, University of North Texas and Frisco ISD

• Sarah Losoya, University of North Texas

• Becky Barton Sinclair, East Texas A&M University

• Mila Rosa Librea Carden, University of North Texas