BROMP was first developed by Ryan Baker and Ma. Mercedes T. Rodrigo. BROMP is now led in the United States by Jaclyn Ocumpaugh.
BROMP is a holistic coding procedure that has been used in thousands of hours of field observations of students from kindergarten to undergraduate populations. It has been used for several purposes, including to study the engagement of students participating in a range of classroom activities (both activities involving technology and more traditional classroom activities) and to obtain data for use in developing automated models of student engagement with Educational Data Mining (EDM).
A range of coding schemes have been used with the BROMP protocol. Students are observed individually, in a pre-determined sequence in order to avoid bias towards more interesting classroom activities. Observers have up to 20 seconds to determine which behavior and which affective state a student is exhibiting, but they record only the first of each.
A summary of research involving BROMP is available within:
Baker, R.S., Ocumpaugh, J.L., Andres, J.M.A.L. (in press) BROMP Quantitative Field Observations: A Review. In R. Feldman (Ed.) Learning Science: Theory, Research, and Practice. New York, NY: McGraw-Hill. [pdf]
Additional information about the practical aspects of using BROMP is available through our training manual:
Ocumpaugh, J., Baker, R.S., Rodrigo, M.M.T. (2015) Baker Rodrigo Ocumpaugh Monitoring Protocol (BROMP) 2.0 Technical and Training Manual. Technical Report. New York, NY: Teachers College, Columbia University. Manila, Philippines: Ateneo Laboratory for the Learning Sciences. [pdf]
Using the BROMP coding scheme is facilitated by the HART Android app, available free of charge for non-commerical or academic use. HART can be obtained from this link.
BROMP certification is now available in the USA, Philippines, India, England, China, the United Arab Emirates, and Norway.
Baker, R.S., Ocumpaugh, J.L., Andres, J.M.A.L. (in press) BROMP Quantitative Field Observations: A Review. In R. Feldman (Ed.) Learning Science: Theory, Research, and Practice. New York, NY: McGraw-Hill. [pdf]