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Publication Date: 2021
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Enhancing a Flipped Statistics First Year Course by Using QT-Clickers
Reyneke, Fransonet; Fletcher, Lizelle; Harding, Ansie
Journal of Statistics and Data Science Education, v29 n1 p71-83 2021
This article focuses on the unique contribution of the QT-clicker regarding formative and summative assessment in a large flipped first year statistics module. In this module, the flipped classroom as pedagogical model first substituted the traditional teaching model. QT-clickers were subsequently introduced to enable active and cooperative learning for face-to-face engagement inside the classroom. The various input capabilities of the QT-clicker, providing for the possibility of partial grade crediting, offer a distinguishing advantage. These clickers were initially only used for formative assessment, but soon extended to summative assessment. Two cohorts--2014 (no QT-clickers) and 2017 (with QT-clickers)--were compared. The intervention of using QT-clickers was evaluated along two lines: the pedagogical influence of the QT-clicker and the effect of partial grade crediting. Several general linear models (GLMs) were fitted to the data to investigate how QT-clicker use is related to the students' examination performance. The outcome of the GLM models indicates that the association of higher examination marks with QT-clicker use holds for the 2017 cohort with and without partial credit. A qualitative component of the study reports on the student voice testifying to positive experience.
Descriptors: Audience Response Systems, Summative Evaluation, Flipped Classroom, Statistics, Active Learning, Cooperative Learning, Program Effectiveness, Grades (Scholastic), College Students, Foreign Countries, Grading, Formative Evaluation
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