InkSurvey is free, web-based software designed to facilitate the collection of real-time formative assessment. Using this tool, the instructor can embed formative assessment in the instruction process by posing an open-format question. Students equipped with pen-enabled mobile devices are then actively engaged in their learning as they use digital ink to draw, sketch, or graph their responses. When the instructor receives these responses instantaneously, it provides insights into student thinking and what the students do and do not know. Subsequent instruction can then repair and refine student understanding in a very timely manner.In a companion paper, we illustrate the wide applicability of this use of technology by reporting a series of seven vignettes featuring instructors of diverse subjects (physics, mathematics, chemical engineering, food science, and biology), with students using diverse pen-enabled mobile devices (tablet PCs, iPads, and Android 4.0 tablets/smartphones), in diverse educational environments (K-12, community college, publicly-funded engineering university, private university, and graduate school), in two countries (United States and Mexico). In this paper, each instructor shares some data, insights, and/or conclusions from their experiences that indicate the effectiveness of this pedagogical model in diverse educational environments.
Prof. Tammara Ramírez Apud L., Universidad de las Americas Puebla I am a research professor imparting university level complex thinking. My speciality is the design of learning environments based on troubleshooting for critical thinking development. Dr. Judith Virginia Gutierrez CubaPhD. Science, Engineering and Technology Education. Postdoctoral Fellow at Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico. Dr. Enrique Palou, Universidad de las Americas PueblaProfessor Palou is Director, Center for Science, Engineering, and Technology Education as well as Distinguished Professor and Past Chair, Department of Chemical, Food, and Environmental Engineering at Universidad de las Americas Puebla in Mexico. He teaches engineering, food science, and education related courses. His research interests include emerging technologies for food processing, creating effective learning environments, using tablet PCs and associated technologies to enhance the development of 21st century expertise in engineering students, and building rigorous research capacity in science, engineering and technology education. Argumentation is the means by which we rationally resolve questions, issues, and disputes and solve problems. An argument consists of a claim (solution) that is supported by principles (premises), evidence, and rebuttals against potential counterarguments. Fostering argumentation in problem-solving learning environments (PSLEs) promotes problem solving 2,3 . Therefore, we designed and implemented some PSLEs for several food engineering courses (from 1 st to 8 th semester) at Universidad de las Américas Puebla (UDLAP).Problems vary in different ways, so different kinds of problems call on different conceptions and skills [2][3][4] . Based on those differences among problems, different kinds of food engineering problems were developed such as decision-making, troubleshooting/diagnosis, and design problems. For seven PSLEs' assignments an Argumentation Rubric (adapted from Jonassen 2 ), was utilized to assess students' (n=81) argumentation skills, particularly adequacy of premises, credibility of premises, organization of arguments, quality of conclusions (claims), and writing (content/ideas). Four evaluators assessed student papers and videos. Furthermore, the most common method for assessing argumentation, protocol analysis of student essays or responses to questions, was performed by means of a qualitative data analysis software (Atlas.ti); identifying idea units within the essays or videos, and classifying those units with a coding scheme built from the Argumentation Rubric.In average, students from the eighth (18.7) and ninth (18.1), semester had higher scores (from a total of 20 points) in the Argumentation Rubric than students from the first semester (14.1), since their credibility of premises, organization of arguments, and writing were adequate for first-year students but could be further improved as further detected by protocol analyses. Therefore in subsequent semesters, specific argumentation scaffolds during problem solving ...
InkSurvey is free, web-based software designed to facilitate the collection of real-time formative assessment. Using this tool, the instructor can embed formative assessment in the instruction process by posing an open-format question. Students equipped with pen-enabled mobile devices (tablet PCs, iPads, Android devices including some smartphones) are then actively engaged in their learning as they use digital ink to draw, sketch, or graph their responses. When the instructor receives these responses instantaneously, it provides insights into student thinking and what the students do and do not know. Subsequent instruction can then repair and refine student understanding in a very timely manner.Although this pedagogical tool is appealing because of its broad theoretical foundations, the cost of pen-enabled mobile technology was until recently a significant barrier to widely implementing this teaching model. However, less expensive tablets, iPads, and Android devices are now filling the market (and student backpacks) and greatly lowering that barrier.To illustrate the wide applicability of this use of technology, we report a series of seven vignettes featuring instructors of diverse subjects (mathematics, food chemistry, physics, biology, and chemical engineering), with students using diverse pen-enabled mobile devices (tablet PCs, iPads, and Android 4.0 tablets), in diverse educational environments (K-12, community college, publicly-funded engineering university, private university, graduate school), in two countries (United States and Mexico). In a companion paper, each instructor also shares some data, insights, and/or conclusions from their experiences regarding the effectiveness of this tool.
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