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Daniela Gachago, Educational Technology UnitFundani Centre for Higher Education Development, CPUT
Clickers in HE – Research and practice
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Kay, H. K. & LeSage, A. (2009). Examining the benefits and challenges of using audience response systems: A review of the literature. Computers & Education, 53 (2009), 819-827.
Simpson V. & Oliver M. (2007).Electronic voting systems for lectures then and now: A comparison of research and practice. Australasian Journal of Educational Technology, 2007, 23(2), 187-208.
Caldwell J. (2007). Clickers in the Large Classroom: Current Research and Best-Practice Tips. CBE—Life Sciences Education. Vol. 6, Spring 2007.
More stuff on clickers: http://cft.vanderbilt.edu/docs/classroom-response-system-clickers-bibliography/#reviews
Interactive, instructing questioning as teaching method is nothing new…
New technology…CLICKERS!
Anonymous Instant feedback Variety of question
types Record of data
Assumptions*
1. Content transmission is not the most effective way of learning
2. Students active engagement with ideas and applications support learning
3. Quality feedback should be provided to students
* Simpson V. & Oliver M. (2007). Electronic voting systems for lectures then and now: A comparison of research and practice. Australasion Journal of Educational Technology 2007, 23(2), 187-208.
Main research areas*
* Caldwell J. (2007). Clickers in the Large Classroom: Current Research and Best-Practice Tips. CBE Life Sciences Education, Vol. 6, Spring 2007.
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1. Rises2. Drops3. Remains the same
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The figure below presents three corridors to be used for traversing a road connecting two termini Mbazwana and Sodwana Bay
Quickly gathering information
How many semesters of calculus have you had?
How many countries outside South Africa have you visited?
Icebreaking questions: how are you feeling today? How was your weekend?
Who am I?
Recall questions: Beginning of class
Who has read the assigned material?
Source: visual.dichotomy, www.flickr.com
Testing pre-knowledge of students
Q2: The earth is flat.
1. It is not flat, I can convince someone who says it is flat
2. It is flat, and I can convince someone who says it is not flat
3. It is not flat, although I do not know how to convince someone who says it is flat
4. It is flat, although I do not know how to convince someone who says it is not flat
Lecturer’s feedback…
Generally most students got all the questions right- which really surprised me, as I thought they had no idea of the concepts I was gonna teach. I had got this impression from the lecturer whom I took this topic from, and who has taught it for over 20 years. She said was certain, from her experience, that the students know nothing, hence my surprise at the consistently correct answers. ….
This also made me re-think my teaching approach, and I have been able to spend less time on the basics, go faster in class (I gave the students typed notes), and I've had time to include videos for teaching (which the students have loved very much!).
Comparing class survey with survey results from
published studies
Source: Dr R James, UGA, http://www.slideshare.net/rnja8c/using-clickers-in-the-classroom-posted
How many Grade 11 students in Cape Town’s most deprived areas regularly access the Internet through their mobile phones*
1. Less than 20%2. 20-40%3. 40-60%4. 60-80%5. Nearly everyone
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Kreutzer T. (2009). Generation Mobile: Online and Digital Media Usage on Mobile Phones among Low-Income Urban Youth in South Africa
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Study results…
…majority of respondents (68%) have used a mobile phone on the previous day to access the Internet,
while half of all respondents (49%) used the mobile Internet to access the Web on the previous day.
Interpersonal communication remained the most common use of phones, with 87% of respondents making calls or sending SMS messages on a typical day.
Predict the outcome of an experiment
Source: Dr R James, UGA, http://www.slideshare.net/rnja8c/using-clickers-in-the-classroom-posted
Steve Draper, University of Glasgow
* Draper S. (n.d.) Electronically enhanced classroom interaction.
“Possibly the most productive application, however, and the one with the largest body of existing research, is in using the equipment to initiate a discussion.* ”
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“You can forget facts but you cannot forget understanding” Prof. Eric Mazur, Harvard
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Source: Bates S., Howie K. & Murphy A. (2006).
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Why bother*?
Benefits: studies on... *
Classroom environment benefits: increasing attendance, attention, anonymity and participation, engagement
Learning benefits: interaction, discussion, contingent teaching, learning performance, quality of learning
Assessment benefits: feedback, formative assessment, comparing responses with others
Kay, H. K. & LeSage, A. (2009). Examining the benefits and challenges of using audience response systems: A review of the literature. Computers & Education, 53 (2009), 819-827.
UoE staff perception
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Challenges from staff perspective
Technological challenges Responding to student feedback Coverage Development of questions
Students perception*
Overall trend in literature: most students like using clickers More consistent when asked about enjoyments
than helpfulness Main benefit: instructor has improved
awareness of students’ needs and teaching style is viewed as more “immediate”
Features liked best: anonymity, potential to reinforce learning and possibility to compare your answer with rest of the class
* Caldwell J. (2007). Clickers in the Large Classroom: Current Research and Best-Practice Tips. CBE Life Sciences Education, Vol. 6, Spring 2007.
CIVIL Engineering CLASS
Clickers are cool…
1. Strongly Agree2. Agree3. Neutral4. Disagree5. Strongly
Disagree
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Clickers help me most…
1. To keep my attention2. To keep me
entertained3. To help me
understand concepts4. To show me whether
I understood a question or not
5. To give the lecturer feedback on what I know
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Communication class
Graphics Design Class
However: students are also critical
Clickers require cognitive energy and cooperation from students
“stop messing around with technology and get back to good basic teaching” (d’inverno, 2003)
Less content is covered when using clickers Increased confusion in discussions When used in a non-anonymous way:
resistance to being monitored
Clicker fatigue?
Potential: extensive change of teaching practice
Towards a more discursive, segmented, tutorial style approach (Nicol & Boyle, 2003)
Contingent teaching (Draper & Brown, 2004)
Re-design of physical teaching spaces which allow collaboration / debate between students
References Bates S., Howie K. & Murphy A. (2006), Electronic voting systems; from one way
transmission to two-way conversation, the Journal of the Higher Education Academy Physical Sciences Centre (ISSN 1740-9888) - Issue 2 Dec 2006.
Caldwell J. (2007). Clickers in the Large Classroom: Current Research and Best-Practice Tips. CBE—Life Sciences Education. Vol. 6, Spring 2007.
Draper, S. W. & Brown, M. I. (2004). Increasing interactivity in lectures using an electronic voting system. Journal of Computer Assisted Learning, 20, 81-94.
Kay, H. K. & LeSage, A. (2009). Examining the benefits and challenges of using audience response systems: A review of the literature. Computers & Education, 53 (2009), 819-827.
Nicol, D. & Boyle, J. T. (2003). Peer instruction versus class-wide discussion in large classes: A comparison of two interaction methods in the wired classroom. Studies in Higher Education 28(4), 457-473.
Simpson V. & Oliver M. (2007).Electronic voting systems for lectures then and now: A comparison of research and practice. Australasian Journal of Educational Technology, 2007, 23(2), 187-208.
Huge resource database: http://cft.vanderbilt.edu/docs/classroom-response-system-clickers-bibliography