Do Your Students Get It? Quiz It! The Android Classroom Response System

Author

Adam, Dimitra ; Kioutsiouki, Dimitra ; Karakostas, Anastasios ; Demetriadis, Stavros N.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Inf., Aristotle Univ. of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece

fYear

2014

fDate

7-10 July 2014

Firstpage

168

Lastpage

170

Abstract

This paper presents the design and a pilot study of a real-time response system for Android mobile devices, created to enhance active learning methods and assess students´ understanding. The prototype system named Quiz It, consists of a lecturer mobile application, a student mobile application and a supportive lecturer administration web environment. Quiz It can be used by Android mobile phones or tablets with access to the Internet. In order to investigate whether Quiz It responds sufficiently under real conditions and get an overview about students´ attitude towards its use, we conducted a pilot study with 23 students who used the application during a laboratory lecture. The results indicated that no problems were encountered in use and students reported that they had a positive experience with the application.

Keywords

Internet; computer aided instruction; laboratories; mobile computing; smart phones; Android classroom response system; Android mobile devices; Android mobile phones; Internet; Quiz It; active learning methods; laboratory lecture; lecturer mobile application; real-time response system; student mobile application; supportive lecturer administration Web environment; tablets; Androids; Conferences; Education; Humanoid robots; Mobile communication; Smart phones; classroom response system; clickers; mobile learning;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Advanced Learning Technologies (ICALT), 2014 IEEE 14th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Athens

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICALT.2014.57

Filename

6901428