Mathematics in Education, Research and Applications (MERAA), 2015(1), 1
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Received 2014-11-12 ǀ Accepted 2015-02-06 ǀ Published online 2015-05-25
DOI:http://dx.doi.org/10.15414/meraa.2015.01.01.01-05
THE UTILIZATION OF A PERSONAL RESPONSE SYSTEM TO MOTIVATE THE STUDENTS OF THE COURSE OF MATHEMATICS – PART I
Václav Nýdl
University of South Bohemia in České Budějovice, Czech Republic
Article Fulltext (PDF), pp. 1–5
- This is the first of the series of papers concerning the idea of facilitating team work in mathematics lectures and seminars at the university by means of electronic voting of students. Personal response systems (PRS) or Audience response systems (ARS), also known as classroom clickers, offer a management tool for engaging students in a large classroom. In our model, the students discuss in small groups (2 – 4 persons) and then try to determine the opinion structure of their group with respect to the given problem. The feedback comes back to the instructor or lecturer via a PRS. Two problems are opened for further research: to investigate what kind of tasks would lead to effective discussions in the groups and to develop methods for statistical reasoning about the data obtained via a PRS (structural statistics).
- Keywords: mathematics education, personal response system, structural statistics
- JEL Classification: B45, C75