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Pearson, RJ (2020) Clickers versus Plickers: Comparing Two Audience Response Systems in a Smartphone-Free Teaching Environment. Journal of Chemical Education, 97 (8). pp. 2342-2346. ISSN 0021-9584
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Abstract
This study compared the performance of two audience response systems (ARSs) without students requiring smartphone technology or Internet access during problem-based learning (PBL) activities. Clicker handsets linked to a radio frequency (RF) receiver and paper voting cards, known as Plickers, which display a QR code (two-dimensional barcode) that can be captured by the instructor using a standard camera on a tablet device, represent two audience response platforms that allow students to vote in classrooms where smartphones are prohibited. Following regular usage of both by 157 first-year undergraduates, the proportion of the cohort voting with each polling platform was compared across 65 polling events as a measure of student compliance and engagement, and by deduction ARS performance. Results from this study showed that both clickers and Plickers achieved satisfactory cohort compliance rates of 87.22% and 78.26%, respectively. Anonymous student survey data overwhelming favored the clicker handsets over the Plicker voting cards, which was, in part, justified by clicker usage being more self-explanatory than that of Plickers; however, from an instructor’s perspective, both voting platforms adequately captured the level of students’ understanding during interactive sessions where problem-solving opportunities were embedded while maintaining a smartphone-free environment.
Item Type: | Article |
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Additional Information: | The final version of this article along with all relevant information regarding copyrights can be found at; https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.jchemed.0c00464 |
Uncontrolled Keywords: | First-Year Undergraduate/General, Laboratory Instruction, Organic Chemistry, Problem Solving/Decision Making, Acids/Bases, Chirality/Optical Activity, Nomenclature, Reactions, Reactive Intermediates |
Subjects: | Q Science > Q Science (General) R Medicine > R Medicine (General) T Technology > T Technology (General) |
Divisions: | Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences > School of Pharmacy and Bioengineering |
Depositing User: | Symplectic |
Date Deposited: | 28 Jul 2020 15:41 |
Last Modified: | 21 Jul 2021 01:30 |
URI: | https://eprints.keele.ac.uk/id/eprint/8439 |