Novel Feedback in Nursing and Spanish Classrooms

Thursday, January 13, 2011 | 2:30PM–3:30PM | Harborside Ballroom Foyer
Session Type: Professional Development
Numerous studies indicate personal response systems (clickers) increase engagement, attention and participation. This project builds on those studies with an exploration of clickers in two contexts. In a nursing course, clickers were combined with case-based questions to enable students to practice clinical reasoning. In a Spanish classroom, clickers were used for feedback and assessment of the verb "to be." Our findings suggest that in the nursing course students opened up to new reasoning processes. In Spanish, clickers positively affected immediate development of verb and grammar concepts, allowing instructors to gauge student performance as a whole and more productively target feedback.

Presenters

  • Susan Pennestri

    Senior Director of Digital Learning & Operations, Pomona College

  • Janet Russell

    Deputy CIO, Support and Instructional Technology, Pomona College