Engaging and Assessing Students through their Electronic Devices and Real Time Quizzes

  1. Ferrándiz, E.
  2. Puentes, C.
  3. Moreno, P. J.
  4. Flores, E.
Revista:
Multidisciplinary Journal for Education, Social and Technological Sciences

ISSN: 2341-2593

Año de publicación: 2016

Volumen: 3

Número: 2

Páginas: 173-184

Tipo: Artículo

DOI: 10.4995/MUSE.2016.6375 DIALNET GOOGLE SCHOLAR lock_openAcceso abierto editor

Otras publicaciones en: Multidisciplinary Journal for Education, Social and Technological Sciences

Resumen

This paper describes a teaching experience using Socrative, a third party electronic tool, for real-time questioning in lectures of Econometrics.  Econometrics is a theoretical-practical subject, but traditionally a large proportion of our students tend to focus on the practical and discard the theory, often skipping classes on theory and avoiding studying its content, probably motivated by its complexity. As a consequence, students’ marks obtained in the theoretical part of the exam are usually low. In this context, we put forward a change in our teaching methodology to include the use of Socrative, a freely available app, that allows students to answer teachers’ short, true/false, or multiple choice questions posed during each class using their smartphones (or other electronic devices with Internet connection). The objectives of this project are twofold: 1) to engage students and increase attendance at lectures; 2) to improve feedback on the learning process. The results of a survey of a sample of 186 students reveal that Socrative has been an effective tool for achieving these objectives.

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