Gauging Students' Understanding Through Interactive Lectures

Abstract. The Personal Response System (PRS) enables audience responses to multiple choice questions to be collected quickly, and for a summary of all the answers to be displayed to the whole group immediately, making it a useful tool for promoting classroom discussion. This paper describes its use as a means for assessing students' understanding of previously learned material, in the context of two consecutive database modules. The PRS was used in the areas of Entity-Relationship diagrams, Relational Algebra, and SQL, and proved to be useful in assessing students' current level of understanding.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2004
• Where: BNCOD
• Authors: Helen C. Purchase, Christopher Mitchell, Iadh Ounis
• Keywords: BNCOD 2004, BNCOD 2007, Consecutive Database Modules, Multiple Choice Questions, Personal Response System