A Student Response System for Increasing Engagement, Motivation, and Learning in High Enrollment Chemistry Lectures

Abstract

Student response systems (SRS) are devices that allow students to provide categorical and numerical responses to questions embedded within a lecture, and the responses can be tallied and scored in various ways to provide immediate feedback to the students and/or professors. In the fall of 2004 at the University of Missouri - Rolla, questions were systematically integrated into large general chemistry lecture sections, and students used the response system to answer. In order to evaluate the system, students' test scores were compared with previous years, and a survey was administered with the aim of evaluating the system at the end of the course when SRS was used. Test scores indicated substantial improvement from previous years. In addition, survey results indicated that a significant majority of the students found that the SRS made the course more engaging, motivational, and increased learning. Qualitative analyses of students' open-ended responses provided support and additional insights for the quantitative analyses.

Meeting Name

11th Americas Conference on Information Systems (2005: Aug. 11-15, Omaha, NE)

Department(s)

Business and Information Technology

Second Department

Chemistry

Keywords and Phrases

Classroom communication systems; General chemistry; Leaner Engagement; Numerical response; Open-ended response; Previous year; Qualitative analysis; Response systems; Student-response system; University of Missouri; Communication systems; Information systems; Students; Surveys; Teaching; Interactive computer systems

International Standard Book Number (ISBN)

978-1604235531

Document Type

Article - Conference proceedings

Document Version

Citation

File Type

text

Language(s)

English

Rights

© 2005 Association for Information Systems (AIS), All rights reserved.

Publication Date

01 Aug 2005

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