Using Plickers Cooperate with Peer Instruction to Promote Students' Discussion in Introductory Physics Course

Abstract

In decades Peer Instruction (PI) has been confirmed that it can improve students' conceptual understanding. Anyway the main problem for using PI is an audience responding system which required for gathering students' answer, to enhance learning process of PI instead of using Clickers which cost about 40 USD per item. In this work we decided to use Plickers: the free application in smartphones. The purpose of this research is to develop the students' conceptual understanding in work and energy by using PI strategy. The sample for this study came from the different academic year at Ubon Ratchathani University, Thailand. There were 50 first year chemistry students who have enrolled in introductory physics course in academic year of 2016 and 119 first year engineering students who have enrolled in introductory physics course in academic year of 2017. The pre-posted test was the conceptual understanding test in work and energy there were 6 items with 4 choices. The items were a part of the Multiple-choice Test of Energy and Momentum Concepts developed by Chandralekha Singh and David Rosengrant. The pre-posted score had escalated about 13% (chemistry students) and 25% (engineering students). Furthermore both groups of students also had a positive attitude to teaching and learning physics with PI and Plickers approach.

Why is plickers a relevant pedagogy alternative for accounting educators? A reflection on distinct types of student response systems (SRS)

“…Regarding implications for practice, preliminary findings on the use of Plickers suggest that it increases students' performance when utilized with PI (WUTTIPROM et al, 2017). Student involvement and learning were also found to be enhanced (WOOD et al, 2017).…”

“…These findings support that Plickers is an attractive alternative pedagogy comparatively to different types of SRS. Wuttiprom et al (2017) analyzed the Plickers usage in conjunction with peer instruction (PI) at the Ratchathani University, Thailand. The first-year undergraduate students of Chemistry (n = 50) and Engineering (n = 119) constituted the sample of the study.…”

“…Third, even though Plickers cannot be employed in distance education or would be inappropriate for large classrooms, they have similar potential benefits that clickers offer. Plickers helps students to participate and get more involved in classes (THOMAS et al, 2016;WOOD et al, 2017), as well as serve to mediate student learning and other teaching methods (WUTTIPROM et al, 2017). Plickers is also flexible regarding its utilization in different levels of education, as Krause et al (2017) showed.…”

“…For future studies, I recommend the analysis of the mediated effects of Plickers on the relationship between students and teaching methods. Wuttiprom et al (2017), for instance, utilized Plickers with PI. Marshall and Varnon (2012) conducted a similar study with clickers and PI.…”

The Effectiveness of Using Plickers Program in Structural Assessment for the Development of Achievement and Motivation Towards it for the Third Grade Primary Students in the Kingdom of Bahrain

“…‫طالب‬ ‫الدافعية،‬ ‫التح�سيل،‬ ،Plickers ‫البنائي،‬ ‫التقومي‬ ‫إنرتنت،‬ ‫اال‬ ‫عرب‬ ‫التقييم‬ ‫املفتاحية:‬ ‫الكلمات‬ ‫االبتدائي.‬ ‫الثالث‬ ‫ال�سف‬(Wuttiprom, Toeddhanya, Buachoom, & Wuttisela, 2017) ‫املعلم‬ ‫قبل‬…”