Pearson, RJ (2019) Exploring Peer Instruction: Should Cohort Clicker Responses Appear During or After Polling? Journal of Chemical Education, 96 (5). pp. 873-879. ISSN 0021-9584

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Abstract

During problem-based learning sessions, undergraduate students were tasked with answering chemistry-related questions using
clicker-handset technology in which the last response made by each handset would override any previous vote. The benefits, if any, of showing cohort responses from clicker questions during versus after polling were explored. Preliminary work suggested that cohort responses shown live during polling created greater unprompted peer instruction, which was inferred from a noticeably louder level of classroom debate. To test if subtle polling changes can promote greater peer instruction, this study monitored cohort performance, clicker response times, and voting-behavior patterns throughout the polling process. Profiling individual and team-based clicker activity in this manner highlighted contrasting performance data. No significant differences were seen when clicker handsets were used individually by students; however, certain trends were seen in the team-based model, which depended on how cohort responses were displayed and were also influenced by question type, with multiple-choice questions (MCQs) performing differently from true−false style questions. The results highlight improved performance in the team-based clicker model with peer instruction taking place during MCQ polls in which cohort responses were displayed live during voting. These findings highlight a clicker strategy embedded with peer instruction that bypasses the need for the standard three-phase process of polling, discussing, and then repolling. Displaying polling responses live enables multiple polling and discussion opportunities to occur in a single interchangeable phase, thus providing a time-efficient voting and peer-instruction method that may attract more instructors to adopt clicker technology within their teaching.

Item Type: Article
Uncontrolled Keywords: Analytical Chemistry, Aromatic Compounds, Collaborative/Cooperative Learning, First-Year Undergraduate/General, NMR Spectroscopy, Organic Chemistry, Problem Solving/Decision Making, Second-Year Undergraduate
Subjects: R Medicine > R Medicine (General)
R Medicine > R Medicine (General) > R735 Medical education. Medical schools. Research
R Medicine > RM Therapeutics. Pharmacology
Divisions: Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences > School of Pharmacy
Depositing User: Symplectic
Date Deposited: 28 Mar 2019 08:38
Last Modified: 19 Aug 2019 09:14
URI: https://eprints.keele.ac.uk/id/eprint/6115

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