Personal Response Systems for teaching postgraduate statistics to small groups

Titman, Andrew and Lancaster, Gillian (2010) Personal Response Systems for teaching postgraduate statistics to small groups. In: ICOTS 8 proceedings : International Conference on Teaching Statistics 2010 Ljubljana, Slovenia. International Association for Statistical Education, Auckland.

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Abstract

Technology is increasingly used to aid the teaching of statistics. Personal Response Systems (PRS) involve equipping students with a handset allowing them to send responses to questions put to them by a lecturer. PRS allows lectures to be more interactive and can help reinforce material. It can also allow the lecturer to monitor students’ understanding of course content. PRS is most commonly used in large lectures where interaction from the students is particularly difficult. However, we consider its use in a small group (around 15 students) of MSc in Statistics students. Recommendations based on this experience are discussed, in particular the importance of good question design. We consider possible diagnostics for the appropriateness of questions based on response data.

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Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings
Uncontrolled Keywords:
/dk/atira/pure/core/keywords/mathsandstatistics
Subjects:
?? mathematics and statisticsqa mathematics ??
ID Code:
60014
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16 Nov 2012 13:53
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Yes
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Published
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