Capturing Thinking in Time — Using "Clickers" to Measure Student Understanding

Student evaluation of clickers in a dental pathology course

BACKGROUND The purpose of this study was to evaluate the degree of satisfaction of students and teachers, and to determine whether the students notice improvements in learning and in the learning environment as a result of the use of clicker. MATERIAL AND METHODS Descriptive study. Fifty-one students and 8 teachers participated in the use of clicker technology in 8 preclinical seminars in den...

Using a kinesthetic learning strategy to engage nursing student thinking, enhance retention, and improve critical thinking.

This article reports the outcomes of a kinesthetic learning strategy used during a cardiac lecture to engage students and to improve the use of classroom-acquired knowledge in today's challenging clinical settings. Nurse educators are constantly faced with finding new ways to engage students, stimulate critical thinking, and improve clinical application in a rapidly changing and complex health ...

Novice Teachers’ Attention to Student Thinking

Using Knowledge Tracing to Measure Student Reading Proficiencies

Constructing a student model for language tutors is a challenging task. This paper describes using knowledge tracing to construct a student model of reading proficiency and validates the model. We use speech recognition to assess a student’s reading proficiency at a subword level, even though the speech recognizer output is at the level of words. Specifically, we estimate the student’s knowledg...

Using Clickers in the Second-Language Classroom

Results: Our sample size is too small to draw empirical conclusions about whether clickers alone improve grades, but subjectively there was a clear improvement in the classroom dynamic when using the clicker technology. The students were engaged and enjoyed the immediate feedback and resulting peer interaction. The instant feedback also enabled the professor to recognize and address a grammatic...