20th Annual SEDA Conference Parallel session Peer-Instruction Unveiled: Measuring Self-Assessment Skills and Learning Gains in a Large Flipped Learning Environment Fabio Arico, Duncan Watson

Session 1

This presentation was focused on teaching informed research. The work of Mazur had been explored by Bates and Galloway and they were looking at learning gain. They found there was a positive association between attainment and confidence in performance. Students seem to recognise the power of peer instruction. Undertook some similar work and then shared results with students after class through an e-mail so they could see where they were in relation to the class average. The clickers required the students to own their answers. There was ethical approval for the project. In class students would provide their own answer and then in groups discuss the answer and some students would try to persuade others that their answer was right. The students would then all vote again and some students saw they had gained learning and changed their answer from the discussion. They ran focus groups with the students and students found this useful. Students who usually had low attainment liked the clickers and discussion. There is a need to undertake further work around this but they found students did behave differently when involved in this peer discussion.

 

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