ERIC Number: EJ1104628
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2016
Pages: 18
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Useful Interactive Teaching Tool for Learning: Clickers in Higher Education
Camacho-Miñano, María-del-Mar; del Campo, Cristina
Interactive Learning Environments, v24 n4 p706-723 2016
Many university lecturers are encouraged to implement innovative teaching tools and methodologies such as clickers in order to create an interactive learning environment and improve student learning, but its performance must be evaluated. The aim of this paper is to test empirically the impact of the use of clickers on students' learning processes. The teaching experience applied to the subject of Financial Accounting is specifically described. The total sample size is 77 students from a Business Administration and Economics Degree, taught in English and in Spanish. The analysis, using multivariate techniques, of the questionnaire responses, students' grades and a reflexive experience of the lecturer conclude that learning with clickers is effective. There is a positive relationship between grades and intrinsic motivation through clickers. Consequently, the students' marks are related to its intrinsic motivation, feedback to understanding, students' discussion and its negative aspects but not gender nor age.
Descriptors: Audience Response Systems, Student Motivation, Classroom Techniques, Feedback (Response), College Faculty, Teaching Methods, Learning Processes, Correlation, Teaching Experience, Business Administration Education, Questionnaires, Spanish, Language of Instruction, Multivariate Analysis, Student Attitudes, Grades (Scholastic), Economics Education, English (Second Language), College Students, Foreign Countries, Statistical Analysis, Nonparametric Statistics, Student Surveys
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Higher Education; Postsecondary Education
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Spain (Madrid)
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