Board 13: The Effects of Frequent, Multimodal Questioning to Drive Lecture: A Positive Case for IRE Student-Instructor Interactions

Abstract

PhD student studying STEM education with a focus in engineering education. I am an engineering educator determined to improve the student learning via professional development, outreach, and community development.

Student Response System Best Practices for Engineering as Implemented in Plickers

“…The release of the first iPhone in 2007 set the stage for another giant leap forward for SRSs. The eventual ubiquity of the smartphone made various Bring-Your-Own-Device (BYOD) SRSs available in the classroom including general audience response and survey systems (PollEverywhere.com [13]- [16], SurveyMonkey [17], Slido [18]) and education specific SRSs (LectureTools [12], Mobile Participation System [19], TopHat [8], [15], [20]- [22], Monocle [15]). Many of these SRSs allowed for more complex questions, open-ended questions, text student responses and grade integration with learning management systems.…”

“…An SRS can create a context for collaborative learning and increased student relatedness. Good SRS questions provide an opportunity for Think-Pair-Share [6], [37], Experimental Learning Cycle [38], and Initiate-Respond-Evaluate [22] teaching pedagogies. The Plickers experience in particular provides an excellent catalyst for small group discussion [8], [38].…”