Smartphones in the Classroom:

Asset or Liability
CIDER CONFERENCE
Grace Onodipe, Ph.D Virginia Tech
Georgia Gwinnett College, Lawrenceville GA February 2017

CELLPHONE USE IN THE CLASSROOM Using Socrative.com for Formative Assessment and JITT

Using Socrative.com for:

Formative Assessments

- Multiple Choice Questions

- Short Response Question
- Exit Ticket
- Pre-Assessment
- Post-Assessment

Pre and Post Quizzes

Q&A
Just In Time Teaching Onodipe & Ayadi (2016) Student Feedback Exit
Surveys

Pre-Quiz # Questions
Strongly Agree Likert
& Agreed (%) Average
Need to Re-teach 1 Reinforced important concepts 97 4.45
Review Results 2 Found Socrative easy 97 4.58
3 Helped provide instant feedback 91 4.36
4 Recommend Socrative 88 4.45
5 Helped gauge understanding 85 4.30
< 30% Correct 30-85% Correct > 85% Correct
6 Improved performance in class 85 4.24
7 Increased desire to come to class 82 4.27
8 Increased WT ask Q 82 4.27
Revisit Concept Peer Instruction Debrief Concepts Move to next topic
9 Made class more enjoyable 79 4.24
10 Increased interaction with peers 73 4.00

Post Quiz Q&A

Surveys Pre Quiz Post Quiz

e.g. Statistics Anxiety Survey 100
Test Review Just In Time Teaching (JITT)
80 94 93 94 93 94 93 92 93
- Survey class on Day 1 (12 question survey) 78
76 74
- Socrative is useful for data collection to get a feel for 60 71 67
60 64
the class or for research
40
44
Students: N % 20
- without Statistics Anxiety 13 41%
0
- with Statistics Anxiety 19 59% Chapter 3 Chapter 4 Chapter 7 Chapter 8 Chapter 9 Chapter 14 Chapter 15 & Course
16 Average

- Will repeat survey on last day of class to compare results

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