Effect of using an audience response tool in a formative assessment

Abstract

The development of the Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) applied into education has allowed teachers a wide range of tools to innovate the teaching-learning process, in which the assessment plays a very important role. This work describes the resulting experience of using Plickers an audience response tool, during the formative assessment of a student group from Colegio de Ciencias y Humanidades (CCH), campus Azcapotzalco, a higher education, Mexican, public, educative institution, with the purpose of knowing its effect in the assessment. Such a tool allowed to bring together a web site, a mobile device and a Quick Response markers set (QR), so that a formative assessment can take place. 25 students, in first semester, from the Compute Workshop, participated in the activity. Results showed that a fun environment was generated in the classroom, which facilitated interaction, participation, positive attitude and competitiveness among students. Additionally, this tool helped the teacher in organizing and controlling grading tasks, as well as analyzing outcomes. Consequently, and according to the observed effects along the activity, Plickers could be suggested to other teachers, in order to implement this sort of tools as an innovative assessment process.

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